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Hello fellow-folkies! Sara Hillis here to let you know that I've got another rerun for you this week on Come by the Hills. The combination of last-minute Sunday parental dinner plans and a weather-related headache have conspired to deprive us of a live episode this time. However, I hope you'll enjoy this show from august 10, 2025.!

Catch Come by the Hills on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern, or check out the replay on Tuesday at 5:00 AM Eastern. Enjoy, and as always, keep your dragons safe!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know that this week's episode of Come by the Hills is all new for a new month! Not only is it a new month, but it is the show's anniversary month! So, happy August to you! The actual anniversary show will take place on August 23, but I plan to revel in the milestone that is ten years all month long!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know that we are diving yet again into the archives of Come by the Hills for this week's show, this time with an episode from July 27, 2025. I hope you'll enjoy it! Also, I wanted to let you know that Autust is our tenth anniversary month, and while I'll be having the official anniversary show on August 23, I'll be referring to the anniversary throughout August, because, it's, like, our tenth! Wow! Anyway, have fun with this archive-dive, and I hope to see you in realtime next week!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know that this week's episode of Come by the Hills is another one from the archives. This time, it's from July 14, 2024. You'll hear references to the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler Pennsylvania which had happened the day before the show went to air. Also, there will be songs in honour of Bastille Day, songs honouring some July birthdays, and even some commedy! Tomorrow, I have birhtday plans of my own which preclude doing a live show, but I hope you'll enjoy this one.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know about the upcoming episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! This week, we'll revisit July 13, 2025. We'll hear from Woody Guthrie and from Roy Bailey, along with many other great artists. So, I hope you'll enjoy this blast from the relatively recent past, and I hope to be with you live again soon!

Catch Come by the Hills on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern, or check out the replay on Tuesday at 5:00 AM Eastern!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know about this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! This week, I'll be paying a reflective tribute in song to the United States of America on the occasion of its 250th birthday. From patriotic anthems to musical ries of protest, it promises to be an interesting show. We'll hear from Joni Mitchell, Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Simon and Garfunkel and Phil Oches, as well as some of our usual mix of Folk and Celtic music. It'll be better than the Great American State Fair, that's for sure!

Sara Hillis here, eh, to tell you aboot this week's episode of Come by the Hills, which is gunna be beauty, because we're celebrating Canada as we do every year around the date of Canada Day, which is July 1. I'll be playing songs filled with Canadian place names, Canadian history, interesting Canadian figures and of course lots of songs by Canadian artists! So, don't take off, eh, because wherever you are, if you tune into the show, you'll be in the great white (because of all the snow and the polar bears of course) north, where still that mighty moose wanders at will and all that!

Hello! Sara Hillis here with some unfortunate news. Due to a raging sinus-related illness that is threatening to melt my face off, there will be no SaraSmiles on Monday. I hope to be back with you for Tuesdays' show, but I will keep you posted. Thank you for your patience.

Greetings! Sara Hillis here to let you know what's happening on this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! I've got another blast from the past for you, this time from June 22, 2025. Today, June 21, is National Indigenous People's Day, and on the nearest Sunday to that date, I like to play some songs from indigenous artists and about indigenous themes. And, Canada being the complex place that it is, this Sunday also falls close to Fete Nationale in Quebec, which is a celebration of Quebec history and culture.

Hello! Sara Hillis here once again to let you know that we are celebrating a very special birthday this week on Come by the Hills, and no, there will not be any ultimate fighting going on. Due to some family-type celebrations, I've got another show from the archives, this time from June 13, 2021, which was the eve of of listener Marcia's birthday. So, by a simple process of deductive reasoning, we can see that Sunday, June 14, 2026, is actually Marcia's current birthday, and that's a better birthday to celebrate than that of a certain orange guy.