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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.

Blue Stem Jazz Presents: Sincerely Linus

October 8, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

November 23rd, 2019 Audio for the Arts 7 S. Blair St. #1, Madison, WI Doors at 7:30- 8pm Start $10 Adv/$15 Day of Show ————————————————————— Sincerely, Linus is a modern music ensemble led by musician/educator/percussionist Jake Polancich. Informed by jazz, classical, rock, avant-garde, and electronics, the group balances original, covered, and improvised compositions with a […]

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 […]

The Lovestruck Balladeers with Mal-O-Dua

October 3, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

The Lovestruck Balladeers The Lovestruck Balladeers enchant audiences with their masterful performances and inspired repertoire of ragtime, jazz and beautiful songs from around the world. They might whip out a lost melody from a forgotten mandolin folio or they might play a Mexican waltz. They might push into a renegade re-arrangement of a swing standard […]

Big Band Benefit Featuring Ladies Must Swing

October 22, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Enjoy a variety of big-band jazz tunes performed by Ladies Must Swing! There will also be Primates Incorporated merchandise and a silent auction to raise extra funds for the organization. Proceeds benefit the Primates Incorporated sanctuary. (www.primatesinc.com)

Blue Stem Jazz Presents: Formanek Duo

October 8, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

November 7th, 2019 Audio for the Arts 7 S. Blair St. #1, Madison, WI Doors at 7:30- 8pm Start $10 Adv/$15 Day of Show —————————————————————— Michael and Peter Formanek Duo Michael and Peter have been making music and improvising together for more than 20 years. In 2019 they will bring the duo on tour for […]

Mr. Chair’s Flying Circus

October 26, 2019 by WORT 89.9FM

Two days after Halloween Mr. Chair takes off with their most marvelous aerial ruckus to date. For one night only, this fearless quartet will be joined in death-defying performance by the remarkable: Chris Bucheit, guitar Leslie Damaso, soprano Will Santino Illustration Buzz Kemper, voice Mike Jonjak, clown Come one, come all. Pilot/aviator/flight costumes welcome…. Doors […]

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