{"id":22766,"date":"2016-12-10T13:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22766"},"modified":"2016-12-10T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T17:16:58","slug":"new-winter-schedule-for-from-the-isle-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-winter-schedule-for-from-the-isle-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New Winter Schedule for From the Isle of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec1362016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22767\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec1362016-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec1362016-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec1362016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec1362016.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FROM THE ISLE OF MUSIC NEW WINTER SCHEDULE STARTS DECEMBER 12<\/p>\n<p>This week, our special guest will be guitarist and composer Sergio Vald\u00e9s Garcia, who in addition to doing much of the soundtrack for the film Juan de los Muertos also recorded some excellent music with his group El\u00e9vense. Also, we will have some authentic Rumba by Team Cuba de la Rumba in honor of the Rumba&#8217;s recent recognition by UNESCO.<\/p>\n<p>NEW! Three options for listening on shortwave:<br \/>\nWBCQ, 7490 KHz, Tuesdays 0100-0200 UTC (8pm-9pm EDT Mondays in the Americas)<br \/>\nChannel 292, 6070 KHz, Fridays 1100-1200 UTC (1200-1300 CET) and Saturdays 1600-1700 UTC (1700-1800 CET)<br \/>\nSee the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fromtheisleofmusic\/\">From the Isle of Music \u00a0Facebook page<\/a> for\u00a0more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM THE ISLE OF MUSIC NEW WINTER SCHEDULE STARTS DECEMBER 12 This week, our special guest will be guitarist and composer Sergio Vald\u00e9s Garcia, who in addition to doing much of the soundtrack for the film Juan de los Muertos also recorded some excellent music with his group El\u00e9vense. Also, we will have some authentic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Vc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22843,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/from-the-isle-of-music-19-24-december\/","url_meta":{"origin":22766,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music, 19-24 December","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"December 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, week of December 19-24 This week, our special guest will be Degnis Bofill, an emerging young percussion star in Cuba who received two awards in this year's JoJazz competition. 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