{"id":27860,"date":"2017-08-31T20:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27860"},"modified":"2017-08-31T20:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T00:01:45","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-sep-3-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-sep-3-9\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, Sep 3-9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the Isle of Music<\/strong><\/em>, September 3-9:
\nThis week, our special guest is Grupo Vocal Sampling, a unique acappella group who is this year’s Cubadisco winner in the Vocal\/Choral Music category. We visited them in Havana during a rehearsal in May. Among other things, they demonstrate how they make their wonderful music. Also, a musical tribute to the late Lourdes Torres, a wonderful Cuban singer\/songwriter who passed away last month.
\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 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a funky world….
\nEpisode 27 of Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot<\/strong><\/em> tears the roof off of Planet Earth on Thursday, September 7 from 2300-2330 UTC on WBCQ, 7490 KHz on the short waves. We’ll have funky stuff from a few different countries plus yet another contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Isle of Music, September 3-9: This week, our special guest is Grupo Vocal Sampling, a unique acappella group who is this year’s Cubadisco winner in the Vocal\/Choral Music category. We visited them in Havana during a rehearsal in May. Among other things, they demonstrate how they make their wonderful music. Also, a musical […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7fm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28176,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/from-the-isle-of-music-sept-10-16-ubmp-moves-to-sundays\/","url_meta":{"origin":27860,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music Sept 10-16; UBMP moves to Sundays","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"September 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, September 10-16: We are repeating this episode due to popular demand...... 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