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Conover Concert To Be Broadcast

Mark your calendars, set your clocks. Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard reports that next Monday’s concert in tribute to Willis Conover will be broadcast live on the Voice Of America. Start time is 7:30 pm EDT, September 17. You can hear the concert on the VOA’s live internet stream (that’s a link).
Paquito D’Rivera will lead the band with Milcho Leviev, George Mraz, Valery Ponomarev and Horacio Hernandez. Birchard reports one other important fact: He, John Birchard, will be the on-air host of the program.
For further details, go here.

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