{"id":29621,"date":"2017-12-13T00:03:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29621"},"modified":"2017-12-13T00:09:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:09:24","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-dec-17-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-dec-17-23\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music &amp; Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, Dec 17-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec172017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29622\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec172017-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec172017-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec172017-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/PromoFTIOMdec172017.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wintercoverphotosunday2018web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29367\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wintercoverphotosunday2018web-1-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wintercoverphotosunday2018web-1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Wintercoverphotosunday2018web-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From the Isle of Music<\/em><\/strong>, December 17-23:<br \/>\nThis week, our special guest is Cuban rock artist and producer David Blanco. We will listen to tracks from some of his albums plus an epic 18 minute jam from Anima Mundi, this year&#8217;s Cubadisco winner in Rock.<br \/>\nFour opportunities to listen on shortwave:<br \/>\n1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)<br \/>\n2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0100-0200 UTC on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, <\/strong><\/em>December 17<br \/>\nBrazilian Jazz, Part 1<br \/>\nEpisode 41 of Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot will be dedicated to some beautiful Brazilian Jazz. We&#8217;ll revisit this theme a few times over the next year.<br \/>\nSunday, December 17,\u00a0 2300-2330 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on<br \/>\nWBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz shortwave from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Isle of Music, December 17-23: This week, our special guest is Cuban rock artist and producer David Blanco. We will listen to tracks from some of his albums plus an epic 18 minute jam from Anima Mundi, this year&#8217;s Cubadisco winner in Rock. Four opportunities to listen on shortwave: 1. For Eastern Europe [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7HL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29014,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot-nov-5-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":29621,"position":0},"title":"From the Isle of Music &amp; Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot, Nov 5-11","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"October 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Our B-17 schedule begins this week: From the Isle of Music, November 5-11 If you were with us last week for Ruy L\u00f3pez-Nussa, we mentioned the superb Estado de Animo project. 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