{"id":26144,"date":"2017-06-01T22:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=26144"},"modified":"2017-06-01T22:45:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T02:45:22","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-june-4-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-june-4-10\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, June 4-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>From the Isle of Music, June 4-10
\n<\/strong><\/em>This week we begin featuring the winners and some of the nominees of Cubadisco 2017, Cuba’s most important music awards program. \u00a0We will have Timba from Aisar y el Expreso de Cuba, winner of the M\u00fasica Popular Bailable – Nuevos Talentos category and will also sample some of EGREM’s Colecci\u00f3n Memorias releases, a series of reissues of great recordings from the past (the collection was nominated for a Cubadisco in the Compilaci\u00f3n y Archivo category). We finish with a couple of songs by Sindo Garay, one of Cuba’s most important trovadores.
\nFour opportunities to listen on 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

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, June 8
\n<\/strong><\/em>Episode 15 of Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot<\/em>, a 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, June 8 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<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Recently the signal has propagated well throughout North and Central America and is reaching as far south as Sao Paolo, Brasil and as far East as the West\u00a0Coast of Europe.\u00a0
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