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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!

Cajun Music & Dance Weekend

April 9, 2021 by Sybil Augustine

Folklore Village is bringing the best of the Acadian Gulf Coast to you during our Cajun Music & Dance Weekend, April 9-11. Experience Cajun culture, all from the comfort of your own home! Cook a Cajun meal in your own kitchen…join an online music workshop…turn your living room into a dancehall for the lively evening […]

Having Impossible Conversations through Art

April 7, 2021 by A Public Affair

“When difference is an inextricable truth of our reality, how can the art of conversation become a strategy for survival?” This is the question at the heart of Primer for an Impossible Conversation, a new dance performance coming virtually to Madison this week that has been described as “a collage of imagery, movement, humor, and […]

The biggest online dance ever

March 26, 2021 by Music Department

FOIVOSX FEAT PINK QUEEN – COME ON AMERICA (EFFECTIVE) PREMIERE / ONLINE DANCE IT EVENT All American people for first time ever watching and dancing together in a worldwide online music premiere. We will dance together and say “Come on America”!!! Invite your friends to take action on the biggest online dance ever!!! Get into […]

DANCING THE CHAZEN

January 21, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

Madison, WI. January 31 and February 1, Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) presents DANCING THE CHAZEN, the 4th and 5th events in their 2019-2020 series 7DaysDancing with site specific works utilizing the architecturally and artistically beautiful Chazen Museum of Art. Dancing the Chazen presents a traveling program of solos, duets, and group works choreographed and directed […]

DANCING THE CHAZEN

January 21, 2020 by WORT 89.9FM

Pilobolus: Shadowland, The New Adventure

October 16, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Following sold-out performances of Shadowland, Pilobolus’s new evening length show, Shadowland, The New Adventure, uses exploration of mixed media to tell a love story about two people and their quixotic quest to save an imaginary bird. Employing animation, video, shadow-theater, this madcap adventure that dips its toe into the genres of science fiction, film noir, […]

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DANCING THE CHAZEN

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Pilobolus: Shadowland, The New Adventure