{"id":24804,"date":"2017-03-25T00:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24804"},"modified":"2017-03-25T00:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:20:48","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-week-of-march-26-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-week-of-march-26-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, week of March 26-April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrom the Isle of Music<\/em>, Week of March 26- April 1, 2017
\nThis week, in honor of the International Rueda de Casino Multi Flash Mob day that takes place April 1, our special guest Juanito G\u00f3mez, a leading figure in the Rueda de Casino dance movement in Cuba, will discuss the development of the Rueda de Casino phenomenon (in Spanish), and we also will have some excellent Cuban dance music that is popular with casineros.
\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

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Episode 5 of Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot<\/em>, a musical variety program that features genres from A-Z, will air on WBCQ the Planet, 7490 KHz, Thursday, March 30 from 2300-2330 UTC (7:00pm-7:30pm EDT in the Americas). Brought to you by Tilford Productions, which also brings you From the Isle of Music. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\n(We aren’t showing on the WBCQ website yet, but we’ll be on.)
\nCheck us out, and let us know what you think! Reception has been quite good in parts of Western Europe of late.
\nEpisode 5 is our belated “welcome” to Spring and the related time change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Isle of Music, Week of March 26- April 1, 2017 This week, in honor of the International Rueda de Casino Multi Flash Mob day that takes place April 1, our special guest Juanito G\u00f3mez, a leading figure in the Rueda de Casino dance movement in Cuba, will discuss the development of the Rueda […]<\/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":true,"_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-24804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6s4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24445,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/from-the-isle-of-music-week-of-february-27-march-4-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":24804,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music, Week of February 27- March 4, 2017","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"February 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, Week of February 27- March 4, 2017 This week, our special guest tresero Pancho Amat shares music from his extensive career, and we listen to some excellent Sones composed by Lazaro Blanco Kindelan WBCQ, 7490 KHz, Tuesdays 0100-0200 UTC (8pm-9pm EST Mondays in the Americas)\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/promofeb27-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24521,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/from-the-isle-of-music-week-of-march-6-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":24804,"position":1},"title":"From the Isle of Music, week of March 6-11","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"March 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This week, some concert music selections from the vast repertoire of composer and pianist Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Vitier and a tribute to the late, great trombonist and bandleader extraordinaire and exceptional producer Juan Pablo Torres. 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