dance 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.

Swedish Music & Dance Weekend

September 13, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us for a most wonderful weekend filled to the brim with rich Swedish folk fiddling and dance workshops, fabulous food and fellowship, plus dancing into the evening! Workshops will focus on folk dance, fiddle, and nyckelharpa.

FREE Dance at Olin Park Pavilion: Madison TANGO Society

August 20, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join Friends of Olin-Turville (F.O.O.T.) for an evening of Argentine passion with the Madison TANGO Society. This FREE dance is on Tuesday, September 3rd, from 6 to 8 PM in the historic Olin Park pavilion. There will be demonstration and instruction. You can just watch or join in – no partner required to learn. And […]

Line Breaks

April 1, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives’ annual Line Breaks Festival is comprised of performances, lectures, and discussions by First Wave students and invited professional artists engaging with the local campus community. Inaugurated through OMAI’s sponsored Marc Bamuthi Joseph Arts Institute Residency in the spring of 2007, the Line Breaks project culminated in a final performance […]

3rd Annual Harvest Square Dance — WORT Benefit

September 26, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Grandpa’s Elixir string band presents their 3rd Annual Harvest Square Dance & Pot Luck! This will be a Musicians For WORT event scheduled for Saturday, September 29, 2018 at the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, 953 Jenifer St. Dances will be called by Jesse Downs & Liz Vaz. The Pot Luck community meal will begin at 6:15 […]

Hootenanny

July 13, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

The Hootenanny is a monthly mashup of ruthlessly majestic music/performance/surprises that simply won’t be ignored. It’s like that person you meet who, at first glace, seems too intense for you — maybe even a little crazy — but who then gains your trust and becomes a treasured companion. Our first Hootenanny rocked the audience with […]

Bubbler Artist-In-Residence: Dance!

July 9, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Libraries are all about permanence, serving as indexed archives of culture. The written word, photographs, moving images in physical or digital media, written musical scores, musical recordings, these are the bread and butter of libraries. But what about the ephemeral, the fleeting or the one of a kind? How do you archive those kinds of […]

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