DX-ing to the sound of waves and Eliseo Parra

After the news, our broadcast features a new edition of our DX program, in which we answer your cards, letters, and e-mails--and, this time, a voice-mail message as well. We offer listeners who write from the U.S. and the U.K. a beautiful traditional song from the northern Spanish region of Cantabria. Its title is "Noche tranquila y serena," and we hear it in the version of Spanish singer-songwriter and ethnomusicologist Eliseo Parra. This versatile performer and composer, who has received national recognition for his efforts in preserving traditional Spanish popular music, demonstrates utmost respect for the traditional music which he also smoothly manages to make agreeable and contemporary-sounding to modern listeners. The song is from Eliseo Parra's 1998 album "Tribus Hispanas," released on the label Música Sin Fin.