Cello 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.

Jeffrey James & Russick Smith Concert

August 26, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Songwriter Jeffrey James and cellist Russick Smith join together to create sentimental soundscapes which evoke images ranging from the beaches of Hawaii to the mountains of Colorado. Suggested Love Offering $10 – 20

Grace Presents: Ancora String Quartet

May 30, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

ASQ closes its 18th season with one last performance of our Spring program, featuring two quartets from the early 19th century, juxtaposed with a shorter piece of much more recent date. Mendelssohn’s Op. 13 was written in 1827 when he was 18 years old. He’d written the Octet two years earlier, but this was his […]

Sonata à Quattro: The Viola Uprising

October 31, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Fresh from successful appearances at the Chazen Museum, Bach Around The Clock, and the Madison Early Music Festival, Sonata à Quattro offers a program focusing on that luscious middle member of the string family, the viola. With works dating from 1602 to 1727, SAQ reveals how Italian and German baroque composers used 1, 2, 3, […]

Eric Miller and Max Yount

September 21, 2017 by WORT 89.9FM

Eric Miller (viola da gamba) and Max Yount (harpsichord) present J.S. Bach – The sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1027-1029, on Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 3:00pm. Tickets $10 in advance online at http://milleryount.bpt.me or $15 at the door. (Advance sales end 1 hour before the show. Tickets available at the door […]

Nineteen Thirteen at ALL

October 26, 2016 by Saturday Night at Smokey's Joint

Took some time to chat with Janet Schiff and Victor DeLorenzo of Nineteen Thirteen as they prepare to put on two sets this coming Friday, October 28th at Arts & Literature Laboratory. As Halloween approaches, it will be quite the thrill to have the mystery and surprise of cello and percussion to hold your hand […]

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