{"id":30116,"date":"2018-01-10T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30116"},"modified":"2018-01-10T07:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:40:57","slug":"from-the-isle-of-music-and-uncle-bills-melting-pot-jan-14-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/from-the-isle-of-music-and-uncle-bills-melting-pot-jan-14-27\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Isle of Music and Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, Jan 14-27"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the Isle of Music<\/strong><\/em>, January 14-20 and January 21-27:
\nJanuary 14-20, our special guest is the award-winning Cuban jazzista Alejandro Falc\u00f3n, who will talk to us about his new release Mi Monte Espiritual, and we will listen to a few selections from that album
\nJanuary 21-27, in honor of Jazz Plaza, we will listen to a potpuorri of excellent Cuban Jazz from the 1970s until today
\nFour opportunities to listen on shortwave:
\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, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)
\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). This is running on a backup transmitter due to a recent fire.
\n3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.
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Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot<\/strong><\/em>, January 14 and 21, 2018
\nEpisode 45 of Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, January 14, will be a bag of surprises, a little of this and that.
\nEpisode 46 of Uncle BIll’s, Melting Pot, January 21, will focus on Albanian folk music. We promise it will be fun.\u00a0
\nSundays,
\n2300-2330 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on
\nWBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz shortwave from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the Isle of Music, January 14-20 and January 21-27: January 14-20, our special guest is the award-winning Cuban jazzista Alejandro Falc\u00f3n, who will talk to us about his new release Mi Monte Espiritual, and we will listen to a few selections from that album January 21-27, in honor of Jazz Plaza, we will listen […]<\/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-30116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7PK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61538,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/january-2025-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","url_meta":{"origin":30116,"position":0},"title":"January 2025 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot","author":"Thomas","date":"January 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot January Schedule From the Isle of Music: January's program will feature retro Cuban music from the 1950s and 1960s and will air as follows: (NEW) Friday, January 10: 3955\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/RCA-Vintage-Dial.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64973,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/january-2026-schedule-updates-from-the-isle-of-music-uncle-bills-melting-pot\/","url_meta":{"origin":30116,"position":1},"title":"January 2026 Schedule Updates: From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill\u2019s Melting Pot","author":"Thomas","date":"December 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following update: Happy New Year! 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