Folk Archives - WORT 89.9 FM

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Music Director: Sybil Augustine – musicdirector@wortfm.org (for music submissions, charts and tracking, promotional exchanges for music events and following up on volunteer applications or other requests. Please include specifics in your subject line, such as “Hiphop Music Submission” etc, )

Music Assistant: Aaron Scholz – musicass@wortfm.org (for record donations and sales, promos recording volunteers, etc.)

Music Calendars: Submit your events online here or send by email to calendar@wortfm.org

How do I get my music played on WORT?

We accept submissions in most genres and styles of music, focusing on noncommercial, out-of-the-mainstream, independent releases (check out our playlists and music charts for more information.) It may take up to a few weeks for us to review and process your submission so we appreciate your patience, and feel free to contact us to follow up. Please send your music, indicating any tracks with language that needs to be aired after 10 pm and including a one-sheet description and any biographical and tour information, to WORT Music Director, 118 S. Bedford St, Madison, WI 53703 and/or to musicdirector@wortfm.org.

We do accept digital files on .wav or mp3, but currently we still prefer CDs to digital submissions because it’s the quickest way to get it into the hands of our programmers and onto the airwaves, though we have a growing digital library. Digital submissions should be .wav or other lossless files, or high quality mp3s [128-320 kbps.]

You can follow up or “track” your submissions by email, or call 608-256-2001 on Wednesdays between 1-4 pm CST to ask if we received it, has it been reviewed, has it been added to our library, and what kind of airplay it’s getting—e.g. light, medium, heavy or charting. Thanks and we look forward to hearing your music!

WORT Music Playlists

What was that song I heard? Who was the artist, what is the album title, where can I get it? Where can I find the entire playlist for a show?

Click on the Playlists button to bring up a calendar where you can choose any date to find the playlists for that day. If you can’t find the right playlist or the song you’re looking for, your best bet is to call the station the next time that program’s on and ask the host yourself. If that’s not possible we may be able to help you, but please have as much information as possible at hand when you contact us, such as: approximate day and time the music was played, what type or genre of music it was, who hosted the show and any other information you remember about the selection and we’ll do our best to track it down.

Once you figure it out, there’s a “Buy It!” link next to each track in online playlists that leads you to a place where you can buy songs and albums, and by doing it that way a small portion of each purchase goes to support WORT.

ChiliOcracy 6

January 9, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

It’s Political Mockery Served in Crockery! WORT’s annual chili cook-off is on Sunday, January 26th from 3 to 6pm at the Harmony Bar & Grill, 2201 Atwood Ave. This is a LIVE MUSIC event, with bluegrass, folk, & blues by SOUNDBILLIES! www.facebook.com/Soundbilliesband/ Sample chili from local restaurants and vote for your favorite. and more… Enter […]

January 89.9 Social Club PopUp Party

January 8, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

January’s Social Club Party will be at The Harmony Bar & Grill on Thursday January 23, 6:30-8:30pm. The Harmony is located at 2201 Atwood Ave, on Madison’s Eastside The Oak Street Ramblers perform at 7:30pm (no cover, please feed the kitty). Though their influences hail from much further south, the Oak Street Ramblers call home the […]

89.9 Social Club December Pop-Up Party

December 4, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join WORT on Wednesday December 18, 6-8:30pm for the 89.9 Social Club “Pop-Up Party” at The Atwood, located at 2116 Atwood Ave, Madison. Soggy Prairie performs 6:30 to 8:30pm The Atwood, (formerly Mr Roberts) is yet another nice, new tavern and music venue on Madison’s Eastside. The Atwood, is owned by the same folks that […]

WORT’s Autumnal Revelry Show at Art In

October 24, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join WORT at the Art In on Friday, October 25th at 8 pm for a Musicians for WORT benefit, featuring the soulful gospel rock and country of Reverend Rectifier & the Sinners! Opening act is the Clash tribute band, The Dead Johnnys! Art In is located at 1444 E. Washington Ave. at the train tracks, […]

Q&A video with Bill Malone

September 11, 2019 by WORT Web Department

Q&A with Bill C. Malone, the sole historian who appears in the eight-part film “Country Music, a Film by Ken Burns,” Bill will talk about his experience working with filmmakers Burns, Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunphy, and the resulting story of the history of country music.

89.9 Social Club at Come Back In

September 11, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

The next 89.9 Social Club PopUp Party is at the Come Back In on Thurs. Sept. 19, 6-8 pm. CBI is located at 508 E. Wilson Street on Madison’s Isthmus (just off Blair.) The Come Back In offers a complete menu of traditional and non-traditional bar food as well as 26 beers on tap (all […]

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