{"id":22843,"date":"2016-12-17T16:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T20:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22843"},"modified":"2016-12-17T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T20:38:44","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-19-24-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/from-the-isle-of-music-19-24-december\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music, 19-24 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec202016-copy-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22844\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec202016-copy-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec202016-copy-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec202016-copy-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec202016-copy-copy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Isle of Music, week of December 19-24<\/p>\n<p>This week, our special guest will be Degnis Bofill, an emerging young percussion star in Cuba who received two awards in this year&#8217;s JoJazz competition. We&#8217;ll have a brief interview and some music that features him on percussion. Also, in honor of their GRAMMY\u00ae nominations, we will feature music from Los Van Van&#8217;s La Fantasia and Chucho Valdes&#8217; Tribute to Irakere. And, as always, other good things.<br \/>\nThree options for listening o<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">n 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 \/>\n*The Saturday broadcast may receive interference from the Voice of Turkey in some areas but should be audible in the UK and NE Europe.<br \/>\n<\/span>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fromtheisleofmusic\/\">our Facebook page<\/a> for more information<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s JoJazz competition. We&#8217;ll have a brief interview and some music that features him on percussion. Also, in honor of their GRAMMY\u00ae nominations, we [&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-22843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Wr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23014,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/from-the-isle-of-music-week-of-december-26-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":22843,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music, Week of December 26-31","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"December 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, Week of December 26-31: From Mambo to Songo: A Special Cuban Dance Party For our final program of 2016, we bring you a special Cuban dance party without interview, plus a tribute to P\u00e9rez Prado, who was born 100 years ago on December 11, 1916.\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/from-the-isle-of-music-week-of-december-26-31\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec272016-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22766,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-winter-schedule-for-from-the-isle-of-music\/","url_meta":{"origin":22843,"position":1},"title":"New Winter Schedule for From the Isle of Music","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"December 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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