{"id":25330,"date":"2017-04-22T01:34:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25330"},"modified":"2017-04-22T01:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:34:09","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-week-of-april-24-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-week-of-april-24-29\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, Week of April 24-29"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From The Isle of Music<\/a>, Week of April 24-29, 2017
\nFor the benefit of our new listeners, we share one of our earliest episodes from last year with modern Cuban concert music (Pi\u00f1era Concertante), Timba (El Ni\u00f1o y La Verdad), Danz\u00f3n (Ethiel Failde, who is also our special guest), and some rare Cuban Jazz Fusion (Estado de Animo)
\nFour possibilities to listen via shortwave:
\n1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in all directions with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)
\n2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EDT in the US)
\n3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.<\/p>\n

Episode 9 of Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot<\/a>, a clandestine musical variety program that features everything from everywhere EXCEPT music that you are probably familiar with, ,will air on WBCQ the Planet, 7490 KHz, Thursday, April 27 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.
\n(The WBCQ website keeps us Top Secret, but we’ll be on, and propagation has been great lately….)
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From The Isle of Music, Week of April 24-29, 2017 For the benefit of our new listeners, we share one of our earliest episodes from last year with modern Cuban concert music (Pi\u00f1era Concertante), Timba (El Ni\u00f1o y La Verdad), Danz\u00f3n (Ethiel Failde, who is also our special guest), and some rare Cuban Jazz Fusion […]<\/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-25330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6Ay","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18069,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/update-from-the-isle-of-music-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":25330,"position":0},"title":"Update: From the Isle of Music","author":"Thomas","date":"April 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Bill Tilford, who shares this From The Isle of Music\u00a0update: From the Isle of Music can now be heard Tuesdays from 1900-2000 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz, a station in Germany, in addition to Tuesdays 0000 UTC (8-9pm EDT Mondays in the Americas)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"IsleOfMusic","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IsleOfMusic.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IsleOfMusic.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IsleOfMusic.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IsleOfMusic.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31494,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-apr-8-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":25330,"position":1},"title":"From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, Apr 8-14","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"April 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, April 8-14: April is Jazz Appreciation Month around the world, and we are going to celebrate by taking a look at some of the roots of modern Cuban Jazz in both Cuba and the United States. 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