OVK/Bach Melharmony Festival brings L. Shankar, N. Ravikiran and others to Dane County

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.

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, )

Digital Production Director: Aaron Scholz – aaron@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!

The 2019 OVK/Bach Melharmony Festival in western Dane County promises an especially rich program of internationally known artists together with up-and-coming performers and school ensembles. In an interview recorded Octrober 27th, noted chitravina virtuoso N. Ravikiran and Vanitha Suresh of Middleton’s Melharmony Foundation discussed the festival with WORT’s Peter Haney. Headlining artists include such world famous virtuosi as violinist L. Shankar and maestro Ravikiran himself. This annual event, now in its sixth year, aims to celebrate great contributions to Western and Indian musical traditions through multicultural music and dance programming. This year’s festival is named for Oottukkadu Venkata Kavi and Johann Sebastian Bach, composers who were contemporaries and who made parallel contributions to their respective musical traditions. It will include Ravikiran’s operatic dance production “Almighty Trinity” and Shankar’s “Lakshya.” Thanks to a grant from the Madison Community Foundation, free tickets are available to K-12 students in the greater Madison area and members of the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County. Persons interested in the free tickets may request them directly from the Melharmony Foundation. The festival lasts from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm on Saturday, November 9th at Memorial High School’s James Madison Memorial Theater, and then from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm on Sunday, November 10th at the Middleton Performing Arts Center. Image: violinist L. Shankar by Mike Anthony.