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Another festive season is upon us, and therefore, it's time to cast your vote in our annual Mushroom FM Holiday Countdown, taking place this year on Saturday, December 20th! This ten-hour live event can't happen without listeners such as yourself, and that's what makes it special! Every year we ask you to pick your top ten holiday tunes, and when the votes are all counted and checked twice, we spin the top 100 songs as chosen by you! This is one of our most enduring traditions at Mushroom FM, and we'd love you to be a part of it!

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, I've got songs about fairs, songs about hares, songs about soldiers, a birthday request, and a whole lot more. It's a veritable musical stew, which is lovely on days like the one we're having around here: chilly, windy and rainy. So, grab a bowl and a spoon and get ready!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know about the next episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! This week, I've got songs in honour of Remembrance Day, (Veterans' Day in the US,) a couple of Halloween left-overs, and I'll be remembering the wreck of the edmund Fitzgerald, which took place fifty years ago this week.

Catch Come by the Hills live from the 7th Floor on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern, or check out the replay on Tuesday at 5:00 AM Eastern. AT the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

Hello! Sara Hillis here to give you the heads-up on this week's episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM. Due to belated, unexpected and very welcome birthday celebrations for my husband, I'm unable to present the show live this week. Instead, we'll be revisiting the thirtieth anniversary of the year I was introduced to Celtic music which I commemorated on November 3, 2024. Enjoy!

Hello! Sara Hillis here with some scary news! ON tonight's episode of Come by the Hills, we'll be journeying into the realm of the uncanny! Yes, it's our annual Halloween--or is that Hilloween?--special! I've got strange tales of ghostly encounters, meetings with beings from other worlds and even a song inspired by the golden age of British Hammer horror movies. It'll be frighteningly folky fun!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to let you know that this week's episode of Come by the Hills is an encore presentation from October 20, 2024. I hope you'll enjoy it!

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 confess something. I have decided to play hooky tonight from Come by the Hills, but you're getting a cracking Canadian Thanksgiving episode from October 13, 2024 instead. For one thing, it's a long weekend and I'm feeling like just chilling out, and also, I need to watch the Toronto Blue Jays to get over the trauma of their horrible loss to the Seattle Mariners in American League Baseball playoff time in 2022. So, I hope you'll forgive me, and I hope this decision is worth it in terms of the Jays! Go Jays go!

Hello! Sara Hillis here again to give you the scoop on this week's almost-upon-us episode of Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM! I've got songs about trees, roads, and one song about The Battle of Cable Street which took place on October 4, 1936, when a large number of workers and other citizens mobilized to prevent Oswald Mosley and his Fascist supporters from holding a rally in London, England. I've got another version of the folk song John Barleycorn in our informal harvest series, and generally a bunch of cracking good tunes which You won't want to miss!

Due to technical difficulties, I have a rerun to play for you tonight instead of the promised new episode of Come by the Hills. It's from September 8, 2024. Enjoy, and see you next week!

Hello! Sara Hillis here to remind you that Come by the Hills, the Folk and Celtic music show on Mushroom FM, comes your way again live from the 7th Floor this Sunday. I've got music to soothe the soul and to set the heart singing, including a segment requested by one listener of songs by women as a salute to another listener's new position of leadership. (I love it when the listeners program my shows for me!) Besides that, I've got the usual mix of styles and genres which has come to epitomize the Come by the Hills experience.