{"id":24636,"date":"2017-03-11T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24636"},"modified":"2017-03-11T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:42:57","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-week-of-march-13-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-week-of-march-13-18\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, Week of March 13-18"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the Isle of Music<\/strong><\/em>, Week of March 13-18, 2017
\nThis week, in the first of two parts, special guest Pablo Men\u00e9ndez, leader of the current supergroup Mezcla and member of the past supergroup Grupo de Experimentaci\u00f3n Sonora del ICAIC, converses with us in English!<\/strong> about these groups (and, of course, we will have a lot of music). In Part 1, we discuss GESI, a group whose many important members profoundly influenced several genres of modern Cuban music from Nueva Trova to Cuban Jazz.
\nThree opportunities to listen via shortwave:
\n1. For the Americas and parts of Western Europe:
\nWBCQ, 7490 KHz, Tuesdays 0000-0100 UTC (Mondays 8pm-9pm EDT in the Americas)
\n2. For Europe and beyond,
\nChannel 292, 6070 KHz, Fridays 1100-1200 UTC (1200-1300 CET) and Saturdays 1200-1300 UTC (1300-1400 CET)<\/span><\/p>\n

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Week of March 13-18, 2017
\nEpisode 3 of Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, a musical variety program that features genres from A-Z, will air:
\nWBCQ the Planet, 7490 KHz, Thursday, March 16 from 2300-2330 UTC (7:00pm-7:30pm EDT in the Americas).
\nBrought to you by Tilford Productions, which also brings you From the Isle of Music. \u00a0(We aren’t showing on the WBCQ website yet, but we’ll be on.) \u00a0Check us out, and let us know what you think! \u00a0 Episode 3 will have some St. Patrick’s Day music for people who are doing the “Irish for a day” thing and a few other bits of fun.<\/p>\n

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