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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!

A Special LIVE remote of the Soggy Prairie Boys!

June 16, 2021 by Access Hour

WORT presents a live remote in celebration of Make Music Madison featuring the Soggy Prairie Boys at Westmoreland Park. Make Music Madison is annual all day, all encompassing musical celebration on the Summer Solstice with performances taking place at venues and neighborhoods throughout the city. This Access Hour will be WORT’s first live remote in almost 2 years! Tune in at […]

Vintage Country Music and Bluegrass Jam

May 3, 2021 by Sybil Augustine

The first Sunday of every Month! Bring your instruments or grab a table or a corner of the dance floor while enjoying some outstanding musicians play the classics. Join Goldie and Mark Peterson, a mother and son duo, for a jam that will sweeten your Sunday with tunes from days gone by. The time was […]

Coulee Creek Celebrates Bluegrass Pioneers Hazel Dickens and Alice Ger...

May 10, 2021 by Chali Pittman and Access Hour

pacificanetwork · Coulee Creek Celebrates Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard In the summer of 2020, a group of musicians met in an open-air pavilion in a small town along the banks of the Mississippi. The musicians, of the band Coulee Creek, represented a variety of musical influences and training in jazz, blues, country, classical, […]

Sprouts: Coulee Creek

May 7, 2021 by Access Hour

In the summer of 2020, a group of musicians met in an open-air pavilion in a small town along the banks of the Mississippi. The musicians represented a variety of musical influences and training in “jazz, blues, country, classical,and bluegrass” that would all come together over a period of five months. They brought in a […]

Full Mile Brewing Co. One-Year Anniversary

November 23, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Come help us celebrate ONE YEAR of being open! It’s our chance to say THANK YOU to everyone that has stepped through the doors or supported us in any way. We’ll have bands, kitchen specials and a special beer release all day long! More details to come shortly. Too Sick Charlie will take the stage […]

Live Remote from McPike with Travelin’ McCourys!

August 14, 2019 by Sybil Augustine

Tonight’s McPike Park Session with Travelin’ McCourys will be streamed and broadcast live on 89.9fm & wortfm.org! The remote starts at 7:30 pm for a one hour set, and the second set runs from 9-10 pm. So if you can’t make it to the show by then (or at all) you can still tune in […]

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