Helena White 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.

SistaStrings: Classical Music & The Black Experience

December 22, 2019 by Music Department

SistaStrings are sisters Chauntee and Monique Ross, classically trained violin and cello musicians from Milwaukee. In this interview with Helena White, SistaStrings discuss how and why they infuse their classical music with influences from Black culture: Gospel singing, Blues and Jazz improvisation. This interviewed was recorded live during ‘On The Horizon’ on December 1st, 2019. […]

Wisconsin Getting Hotter: A radio series about the climate crisis

September 9, 2019 by WORT News Department

Wisconsin Getting Hotter is a monthly series exploring the impact of the climate crisis on Wisconsin and how we can take action to change our current trajectory. To hear the series, tune in to WORT 89.9 FM every first Monday of the month at 11 a.m. or 6 p.m.

Polka Can’t Die!

August 30, 2019 by WORT News Department

Hear a conversation about POLKA! with Don Hedeker of The Polkaholics. “Polka Can’t Die” is the name of an album by Chicago polka band The Polkaholics – a band who is keeping the polka tradition alive by injecting it with good old rock n roll! During ‘On the Horizon’ on Sunday, August 18th 2019, Helena […]

WORT Debuts Climate Change Series

August 26, 2019 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

If you live in a coastal city like Jakarta, Miami Beach, or Tuvalu, you’re only too familiar with the effects of climate change. Even in the continental interior, as in Wisconsin, climate change is real. On September 9th, WORT reporter Helena White debuts her new series on the impact of Climate Change on Wisconsin. Helena […]

“A World War I Diary:” Final Installments

October 8, 2018 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

On November 11, 1918, the Allied Forces and Germany signed an armistice agreement ceasing hostilities in what was then known only as “The Great War,” but we now remember as World War I. As the 100th anniversary of the end of the “War to end all Wars” draws near, WORT reporter, host of On the […]

Foxconn a Tale of Two Narratives

July 2, 2018 by WORT News Department

President Trump was in Racine County last Thursday to attend the ground breaking ceremony of the new FoxConn factory. Officials say the factory will produce liquid crystal display screens and provide jobs for 13,000 people. The Taiwanese company was lured by Governor Walker’s a record breaking tax breaks totalling 4 Billion dollars in taxpayer money. […]

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