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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!

Live Classical Music Online Events

May 11, 2020 by Music Director

Here’s a calendar of classical music performances compiled by our volunteer hosts Sarah Brailey and Alan Muirhead of Musica Antiqua (our Early Music program on Sundays 8-11 am.) Watch this space for updates! WORT Classical Calendar – Online Events (featured photo by Manuel Nägeli on Unsplash) Live with Carnegie Hall: Music has the undeniable power to […]

Music for Easter

April 10, 2020 by Musica Antiqua

This Sunday will be a very different Easter as everyone stays Safer At Home. Our suggestion: tune in to Musica Antiqua for a variety of music for Lent and Easter, from 10th century chant to 16th century masterpieces by Victoria and Guerrero. You’ll also hear a wide range of secular and sacred music from Spain, […]

Michael Allsen returns!

October 18, 2019 by Musica Antiqua

About a year ago, Michael Allsen came to Musica Antiqua to talk about Guillaume Dufay, whom Michael had written his PhD thesis on. This coming Sunday, October 20 Michael returns to talk about and play music by Dufay’s friends and companions: Loqueville, Hugo & Arnold de Lantins, Grenon, Binchois, Brassart, et.al. This is a busy […]

John W. Barker retires

July 23, 2019 by Musica Antiqua

Last Sunday morning John W. Barker hosted his annual Christmas in July program on Musica Antiqua. During the show, he announced that it would be his last show, as failing health was forcing him to step down after nearly 20 years as one of the co-hosts on the program. John has been a major figure […]

Madison Early Music Festival

June 28, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Madison Early Music Festival runs from July 6-13 on the UW-Madison campus and includes an evening concert series, free lectures, and a dance event (July 11) open to the public. Evening concerts: Dark Horse Consort (July 6), Alchymy Viols (July 7), HESPERUS (July 9), Calmus (July 12), and All-Festival Concert (July 13) – all at […]

Early Music America Honors WORT’s Musica Antiqua

March 12, 2019 by Musica Antiqua

Early Music America celebrates the joy, meaning, and purpose in studying and experiencing historically informed performance. For many years EMA has designated March as Early Music Month. As part of this year’s celebration, EMA has listed several of the radio programs that feature early music – including Musica Antiqua on WORT! Read the whole article […]

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