The Charles Walker Band (aka CWB) will bring its “neo-funk” swagger to the WORT Block Party this Sunday. CWB is set to take the stage on MLK Boulevard at 4:15 p.m. This well-traveled Milwaukee-based band blends gospel, soul, R & B, blues, funk and pop into a tasty gumbo of sound. Winners of the 2013 […]
Mal-O-Dua brings eclectic string sound to WORT Block Party
Mal-O-Dua brings its slack-key guitar and French-swing string music to the WORT Block Party on Sunday, May 22nd. The Madison-based duo will start its acoustic set at 12:30 p.m. on the MLK Boulevard stage. Django Reinhardt meets Merle Travis is how this eclectic pair describe their sound. Cedric “CED” Baetche, a native of Reims […]
Black Marigold opens show at Sunday’s WORT Block Party
Black Marigold, a Madison-based wind quintet, will open the music festivities at the 19th annual WORT Block Party this Sunday, May 22nd. These fun players of serious music will take the stage on MLK Boulevard at 11:15 a.m. Known by the acronym BMW5, Black Marigold are dynamic advocates of new instrumental music by living composers, […]
WORT posters available at Gallery Night Friday
On Friday, May 6th, WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio joins the explosion of art in Madison during Gallery Night. A retrospective exhibit of fine-arts prints, created specially for WORT pledge drives, will be held at the Yellow Rose Gallery, located at 122 State Street (2nd floor), from 5:00 till 9:00 p.m. The exhibit features art […]
Parched Eagle Brewpub: WORT Underwriter & Community Beer Resource...
Jim Goronson may have been destined to become a brewmaster. His parents gave him a Mr. Beer homebrewing kit for his 29th birthday. He was already a beer connoisseur by then, favoring imports and American examples of what used to be called “microbrews.” After 13 years of brewing his own batches, Goronson turned pro, encouraged […]
Pegasus Games: WORT Underwriter & Community Fun Resource
“A [person] only plays when, in the full meaning of the word, (s)he is a [person], and (s)he is only completely a [person] when (s)he plays.” – Friedrich Schiller, “On the Aesthetic Education of Man” Pioneering Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argues in Homo ludens (Playing Human, 1938) that play is primary to – indeed […]
