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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.

Tandem Press Friday Jazz Series — Contemporary Jazz Ensemble

August 30, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Join us at Tandem Press for the 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 2018-2019 series, beginning on October 5, 2018, includes three concerts during the fall season and three in […]

Tandem Press Friday Jazz Series — Jazz Standards Ensemble

August 30, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Tandem Press Jazz Series — Jazz Composers Group and the Afro-Cub...

August 30, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Ben Ferris Octet Holiday Party

December 6, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

The Ben Ferris Octet invites you to the North Street Cabaret for their annual “Ho-Ho-Ho or No-No-No” holiday party. You choose with your tips – more holiday music or NOT! With special guest vocalist Rose Heckenkamp-Busch Tickets expected to sell out quickly – snag yours before they are gone! Use link to buy from brown […]

Bill Hill Live Solo Jazz

December 3, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Nominated for the 2017 WAMI (Wisconsin Area Music Industry) for Jazz Artist of the Year, Bill Hill is a fingerstyle guitarist and vocalist who has been a musician most of his life. He became interested in guitar when The Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan in 1964. Initially, Bill played folk and rock music, but […]

Cave After Dark Underground Cocktail Lounge

November 27, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Cave of the Mounds welcomes Mambo Blue, a Latin jazz quintet performing salsa repertoire of jazz standards (and maybe a few holiday tunes) featuring Vince Jesse (guitar), Paul Muench (piano), John Mesoloras (bass), Roberto Rengel (percussion), and Jim Huwe (drums). Mambo Blue will be performing inside the cave while guests sample holiday cocktails along the […]

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Tandem Press Friday Jazz Series — Jazz Standards Ensemble

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Ben Ferris Octet Holiday Party

Bill Hill Live Solo Jazz

Cave After Dark Underground Cocktail Lounge