Join Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse for country weepers, crooner classics, and more… The Gadjo Players are an eclectic jazz band from Madison, WI. Donations suggested.
Lonesome Willie Jones & His Dime Store Posse w/Oak Street Ramblers...
Join us for country weepers, crooner classics, and more… Though their influences hail from much further south, the Oak Street Ramblers call home the East Side of Madison, WI. A bluegrass band in the tradition of Flatt and Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, and Hazel Dickens, the Oak Street Ramblers specialize in bluegrass stompers, classic country weepers, […]
A Tone Madison audio extra: The torment of pedal pub season
The high for today is a balmy 68 degrees (so close!), which means winter is finally fully on its way the hell out the door. The other side of that coin, though, is the return of pedal pubs, scourge of Madison’s moderately respectable drinking establishments. One of the most popular pieces we’ve ever run on Tone […]
A Room of One’s Own faces the future
Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon asks Sandi Torkildson of A Room of One’s Own about her decision to put the long-running downtown Madison bookstore up for sale, and about how culture and business have changed in Madison since the store was founded in 1975. The music in this segment is by Tippy. Subscribe to the Tone Madison/WORT-FM […]
MATC President Defends Southside Expansion, Leaving Downtown
Jack E. Daniels, President of Madison Area Technical College, has been drumming up support for a new campus on Madison’s South Side. WORT’s Darien Lamen spoke with him about the proposal, as well as some of the criticisms leveled against it.
