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.

Contact Information

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!

Global Revolutions

Folk music from the world over, with an emphasis on workers' and rebel songs and local political music.

Madison World Music Festival Kicks Off (by Dan Talmo)

September 16, 2016 by Global Revolutions

The 2016 Madison World Music Festival kicked off fabulously last night with the Enyedi-Salamon Ensemble from Hungary. Fronted by newlyweds Ágnes Enyedi (vocals) and Soma Salamon (accordion), the youthful quartet played traditional music from Hungary and of the Hungarian minorities in Transylvania and Moldva, Romania. Salamon also doubled on flutes. His medley of tilinko (overtone flute) […]

WORT at WOMEX (Part Last)

November 4, 2015 by Global Revolutions

by Dan Talmo, at WOMEX 2015 (World Music Expo) in Budapest, Hungary With over 2,500 attendees from 90 countries, WOMEX is mostly a giant networking opportunity for bands promoting themselves, agents promoting artists, venues looking for artists, and agents seeking new artists to represent. National and regional arts groups from several countries also represented a large number of […]

WORT at WOMEX – The European Refugee Crisis

October 28, 2015 by Global Revolutions

by Dan Talmo, at WOMEX conference in Budapest, Hungary Hungary has been in the news lately. The Middle East refugee crisis is sparking quite a bit of controversy in this crossroads of east meets west. The Hungarian government has taken a hard line stance against the refugees, erecting boarder fences with Serbia and Croatia and […]

WORT at WOMEX (Part 3)

October 27, 2015 by Global Revolutions

by Dan Talmo, co-host, Global Revolutions, WOMEX conference, Budapest, Hungary Although the next two days of showcases did not achieve the heights of the first night, they did bring plenty of quality acts that I would like to see again. The most exciting group of the lot was the Buda Folk Band, from Budapest. Searing […]

WORT at WOMEX (Part 2)

October 24, 2015 by Global Revolutions

Hi again. Dan Talmo, co-host of Global Revolutions, reporting from WOMEX, the World Music Expo in Budapest, Hungary. Once in a while you run into a perfect evening of music. The first night of showcases at WOMEX 2015 featured 15 bands on five stages. We had to choose carefully. We managed to see six bands. […]

WORT at WOMEX (supplement 1)

October 23, 2015 by Global Revolutions

Spontaneity at WOMEX an hour ago. A few Hungarian Gypsy musicians stopped by a Spanish guitar maker’s booth to test out the guitars. Then this happened – click youtube link:

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