So long, Old Man Winter – at least for the time being.

We’ll have an abundance of bananas and bongos this morning, as we travel south to equatorial climes, during what will seem in the Northeastern United States like a veritable heat wave. Too late for Indian Summer and too early for the Groundhog, it nevertheless provides us with some incentive to don our beachcombers and Bermuda shorts, musically speaking. We’ll enjoy a full morning of music evocative of the Caribbean, the Amazon, and Latin America. Some of the works will be by European and (North) American composers; most will be by those native to the regions.

For those of you listening from outside the Northeast, under very different weather conditions, consider yourself snow birds, bound for the tropics.

Join me as I crack coconuts with a machete this morning, from 6 to 11 EST, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com. We’re having a heat waaave… a tropical heat wave…, on Classic Ross Amico.