Memorial Day Archives - WORT 89.9 FM

Contact Information

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.

Gil Halsted Observes Memorial Day

March 18, 2019 by Access Hour

Memorial Day Special – Veterans’ Health Care

May 27, 2019 by A Public Affair

In observance of Memorial Day, today we focus on health care for veterans. Our guest is Suzanne Gordon, author of Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans. She highlights the wide-ranging health needs of veterans, including hearing loss, PTSD, exposure to toxins, and other injuries, and how […]

Providing Veterans with Spaces for Healing

May 28, 2018 by A Public Affair

As we remember the fallen on Memorial Day, Monday host Patty Peltekos takes a look at those who have survived combat. What are the lasting effects of trauma? How does diagnosing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder work, and how best can we design spaces for healing? Our guests are Vietnam veteran Bob Curry, retired VA psychologist Jim […]

7 to 8 pm on Memorial Day

May 1, 2017 by Access Hour

Victor Calzone will provide some good rock music for the hour, after his stint engineering the Memorial Day news hour replacement program.

Veterans for Peace Memorial Day Program

May 26, 2015 by 8 O'Clock Buzz

Memorial Day means different things to different people, but most observe it as a day to honor those who have fallen while performing their military duties. The Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace holds a peace rally each year not only to pay tribute to the men and women who have already lost their lives, […]

Howard Zinn’s “Against War”

May 25, 2015 by A Public Affair

Check out this edition of A Public Affair to hear what Howard Zinn has to say about Memorial Day!

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