{"id":27424,"date":"2017-08-03T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27424"},"modified":"2017-08-03T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T00:20:07","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-august-6-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-august-6-12\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music &amp; Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, August 6-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PROMOFTIOMaugust6017-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-27425\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PROMOFTIOMaugust6017-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PROMOFTIOMaugust6017-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PROMOFTIOMaugust6017-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PROMOFTIOMaugust6017-copy.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unclebillslogo-copy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26798\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unclebillslogo-copy-1-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unclebillslogo-copy-1-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unclebillslogo-copy-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Isle of Music<\/strong><\/em>, August 6-12:<br \/>\nCharanga, Charanga and Chang\u00fci&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nThis week is dedicated to Charanga and Chang\u00fci. Our guest is Abilio Betancourt, Director of Orquesta Sublime, a charanga with a lot of swing that is noticed less than it should be outside of Cuba. You&#8217;ll hear what we mean with some of their recordings. Also: Orquesta Estrellas Cubanas, another excellent charanga, and some seldom-heard Orquesta Reve from the 1960s. Be prepared to dance.<br \/>\nFour opportunities to listen on shortwave:<br \/>\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)<br \/>\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)<br \/>\n3 &amp; 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 24 of <em><strong>Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot<\/strong><\/em>, a musical variety program that features a little bit of everything from around the planet, will air on WBCQ the Planet, 7490 KHz, Thursday, August 10 from 2300-2330 UTC (7:00pm-7:30pm EDT in the Americas). This week includes a wonderful new Tango recording, some progressive Folk music from Poland and what might be China&#8217;s answer to Lady Gaga (not sure whether that was the question though) among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Isle of Music, August 6-12: Charanga, Charanga and Chang\u00fci&#8230;&#8230; This week is dedicated to Charanga and Chang\u00fci. Our guest is Abilio Betancourt, Director of Orquesta Sublime, a charanga with a lot of swing that is noticed less than it should be outside of Cuba. You&#8217;ll hear what we mean with some of their [&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-27424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-78k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20116,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/from-the-isle-of-music-for-july-2526\/","url_meta":{"origin":27424,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music for July 25\/26","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"July 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The \u00a0July 26 (July 25 in the Americas on WBCQ) edition of From the Isle of Music includes more of Mar\u00eda Felicia P\u00e9rez, director of Coro Exaudi, winner of the Choral Music category in Cubadisco 2016, and we will feature some Cuban Rock by Miel con Lim\u00f3n, winner of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"PromoFTIOMjuly252016small","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/PromoFTIOMjuly252016small-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18481,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/update-from-the-isle-of-music-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":27424,"position":1},"title":"Update: From the Isle of Music","author":"Thomas","date":"April 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Bill Tilford, who shares this From The Isle of Music\u00a0update: Our April 26 (April 25 in the Americas) program will feature special guest Cuban Jazz\/Blues\/Fusion guitarist Hector Quintana, a nominee in the Jazz category in Cubadisco 2015. 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