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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.

Ben Ferris Octet 4th Annual Holiday Party

November 26, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Ben Ferris Octet’s 4th Annual Holiday Show North Street Cabaret, 610 North St., Madison WI Dec. 19th, 7pm Tickets available at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4445180 $10 general admission, or $60 for a reserved table of 4 Per our usual tradition, the band will be taking audience input in our “Ho-ho-ho/No-no-no” tip jars – which ever has more $$ […]

Ben Ferris & Paul Hastil

November 26, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Ben Ferris & Paul Hastil Arts and Literature Laboratory – 2021 Winnebago St. Madison, WI Dec. 6th, 8pm $5 Ben Ferris, bass and Paul Hastil, rhodes will be performing original music live at Arts and Literature Laboratory on Dec. 6, at 8pm. Tickets are just $5 for this intimate show in one of Madison’s most […]

2019-2020 Tandem Press Friday Jazz Series

September 17, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us at Tandem Press for our annual Friday Jazz Series featuring students from the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music’s Jazz Studies Program, led by Johannes Wallmann, the John and Carolyn Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies. The 2019-2020 series includes three concerts during the fall season and three in the spring. Enjoy some great […]

Ultimate Duets: Arturo Sandoval with vocalist Jane Monheit

October 16, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

The recipient of ten Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, trumpeter, pianist and composer extraordinaire Arturo Sandoval is one of the most impressive artists of our time. Born in Cuba and mentored by jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval was instrumental in fusing latin influences with American jazz. Sandoval’s natural curiosity and musical versatility […]

emerson hunton trio with sarah clausen & jakob heinemann

September 30, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

bluestem jazz presents a killer trio of progressive musicians with power-house saxophonist sarah clausen

Mr. Chair Triple Vinyl Album Release Show

August 14, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Farley’s House of Pianos Giant Jones Brewing Company Buttonhill Music Studio Audio for the Arts & Tadada Scientific Lab Present Mr. Chair Thursday, September 5 at Majestic Madison Doors 7PM | Show 8PM All Ages $15 ADV | $20 DOS On Sale Now ➤ bit.ly/MRCHAIRMAD MR. CHAIR http://www.mrchairmusic.com Mr. Chair looks like a jazz quartet, […]

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