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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 […]

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 […]

GREGORY DUDZIENSKI QUARTET

December 7, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

Live one night only December 8, 2018 at One Spirit Center. Gregory Dudzienski is a saxophonist, composer, and educator. Throughout his career he has performed around the United States and throughout Europe, the Middle East and South America. He has taken the stage with musical artists including the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the O’Jays, Tito Puente […]

The Lovestruck Balladeers / Mal-O-Dua

September 18, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Lovestruck Balladeers carry traditional styles into modern times and bringing new sounds to old music! The Lovestruck Balladeers will perform in Madison, Wi at The Brink Lounge on Tuesday October 16th at 7:00. Madison’s Mal-O-Dua will open. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 day of show. On Tuesday October 16th […]

Kind Folk

July 16, 2018 by WORT 89.9FM

New York-based jazz trumpeter John Raymond’s collective quartet called “Kind Folk” that includes fellow New York-rising stars Alex LoRe (alto sax), Noam Wiesenberg (bass) and Colin Stranahan (drums). The tour supports their first album for Fresh Sound New Talent that will be released in the Fall.

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