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Hi all,

This is just to let you know that Sara Smiles will not be heard on Monday. Life is a little chaotic just now around this house, and tomorrow promises to be very busy. I hope to return as usual on Tuesday, but will keep you posted as things progress. We are attempting to get rid of a roach infestation in our apartment, and it's going to involve some people coming with very serious chemicals which will require us to be out of the place while they do their thing.

No, it's not a Celtic version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, it's a rerun of last year's Hallowe'en special. This was not what I intended to do this week, but we are forced out of our comfort zone here on the seventh floor by a domestic crisis of epic proportions. Yes, we have roaches, and we have to basically dismantle our entire lives today in preparation for when the bug people come tomorrow, and as I have no idea how long this dismantling and cleaning will take, I thought I'd play it safe and offer you last year's folky thrills and chills from October 27, 2019.

Hi there. Sara Hillis here to tell you about this weekend's episode of Come by the Hills, the Celtic music show. We're live again this Sunday with a focus on Folk music wit a Worldish twist. This is in order to pay tribute to Tom Dekker, a former Fun Guy and a well-loved friend of many listeners to this show. He passed away on October 10 and will be missed by many. He was a lover of music of all kinds, and was a great supporter and encourager of me as a musician and of Come by the Hills as well. He was a great supporter of pretty much everyone who knew him.

Hello there! Sara Hillis here to tell you that Come by the Hills comes your way again in just a few short hours. This week, I'm presenting an encore of last year's episode from October 13, 2019. it's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, and it was Thanksgiving last year when this show originally aired. I decided that I want to have a leisurely dinner with my husband, likely with a bit of imbibing, due to the fact that we can't have our usual Thanksgiving celebrations with the family due to Covid.

Hello again! Sara Hillis here to let you know that Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's premier (and only) Folk and Celtic music show is coming to you live again this week. Join me right after The Doo-Wop Corner for three amazing hours of music with a folkish flavour! Don't forget the next teaser tune from the soon-to-be-released first volume of the Joni Mitchell archives. That will be in our second hour. This time, it's her first original studio demo, recorded in 1965!

Sara Hillis back to tell you that we've got a great bunch of music for you tonight on Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's premier (and one and only) Folk and Celtic music show. It's so great that I can't even tell you yet precisely what I'll be playing, except that we do have another teaser tune from Joni Mitchell's upcoming first box set of archives for you. She recorded this one for her Mom's birthday in 1965, and if you've read this carefully, you'll already know what it is. Suffice to say that it's one of my favourite Joni tunes ever!

Yes, Autumn is on its way for us in the northern hemisphere, and Come by the Hills is on its way too! Join me tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern for three hours of great Folk and Celtic music, some with a hint of Autumn and some that's just plain awesome in any season. There's also another personal tribute that I'll be paying to a very dear friend and spiritual role-model who died peacefully on Wednesday after a long and fruitful life.

Sara Hillis here to tell you about this week's very special edition of Come by the Hills, Mushroom FM's Folk and Celtic music show. This week, we're doing something we've done periodically over the years, featuring multiple versions of a song. In this case, it's the strange tale of the Two Sisters. It involves love, jealousy, murder, magical harps and/or fiddles and justice from beyond the grave, and sometimes even swans. We'll be playing several versions of this song throughout the show and sharing what we know of its origins and history.

Yes, it's time once again for another encore presentation from the CBTH archives. This one's from this past June, and it features the amazing career and artistry of Buffy Saint-Marie, as well as some songs from Quebec. We were celebrating National Indigenous Peoples' Day here in Canada, as well as Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec. It was an interesting episode for me to do, I think that Buffy's work is very topical right now, and I hope you enjoy reliving it, or perhaps living it for the very first time!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to assure you that come by the Hills is back again this week for another three hours of fantastic folk and Celtic music from Canada and around the world. Join me live on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern, or catch the replay on Friday at 4:00 AM Eastern, 9:00 AM in the UK and Ireland. We've got a bit of song association in the first hour this week, Me Music in the third hour, and everything but the kitchen sink in between. Who knows? perhaps even the aforesaid appliance will make an unscheduled appearance. After all, anything can happen on Mushroom FM!