Over 14 WORT show hosts sat down to pick their recommendations for the best of 2014, and we’ve gathered them together in one place. You’re sure to find something new, interesting, disturbing and/or fantastic.
Central Park Sessions to benefit WORT & Project 1808
Please join us Thursday for the inaugural Central Park Session, a night of live African music that we’ll be broadcasting and streaming from 5-10 pm. WORT benefits from the proceeds of refreshments and raffle tickets sold at the concert series, so come down to the show and/or listen to the live remote this Thursday!
The Underrated Music Scene of Madison
New York, L.A., Nashville, Austin, etc.: these are all cities that get written and sung about. The places whose streets, or bars, or saloons and studios harbor, hold, and heave with musicians. They’re cities we think of as being some of the music capitals of the world. While all of these things are true, it barely scratches the surface of the American music scene.
Top 30, Rock, Jazz & World Music Charts for the week of June 23, ...
Here’s a look at what we’ve been spinning on WORT recently. You can find playlists for individual shows by clicking on them in our Air Schedule: http://www.wortfm.org/?page_id=529 and you can listen to music programs for up to two weeks after they air on our archives: http://www.wortfm.org/?page_id=1811
A Gringa’s Guide to the Madison World Music Festival!
Susan Kepecs’ “Cultural Oyster” gives an overview of the acts appearing at the Madison World Music Festival this year at the Memorial Union and Willy St. Fair. Read and watch videos of several visiting artists on her blog. A Gringas Guide
“Boombox the Wasteland” 2013 Unites Live Radio And Communi...
“Boombox the Wasteland”, Madison’s least conventional, DIY- driven, free city festival is now looking for participants, volunteers and sponsors.
