It’s the holiday season, which means that it’s time for one instrument’s yearly return back into America’s Top 40 hits—the pipe organ! Suggesting that it’s a seasonal thing might be […]
Madison Classical Guitar Festival Celebrates Women Musicians
Five years after its formal incorporation as a nonprofit, the Madison Classical Guitar Society will sponsor our city’s first Classical Guitar Festival on Oct. 5th at the Overture Center. The […]
Split Show: Enbridge Pipeline and Miss Saigon Controversy
In 2010, an Enbridge pipeline spilled one million gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River, a tributary of Lake Michigan. Dane County wants Enbridge to carry extra insurance […]
WYSO’s James Smith Wins 2017 Rabin Award
The Music Director of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO), James Smith, is the winner of the 2017 Rabin Youth Arts Award in the category of Artistic Achievement. The award, […]
Tone Madison’s art catch-up, August 2016
Tone Madison‘s Scott Gordon and Sarah Witman discuss a handful of noteworthy art shows going on around Madison this month. Discussed: Valerie Mangion’s Night Vision, at the Watrous Gallery through August 28. […]
Fine Arts in Madison
One of Madison’s greatest draws has to be its theaters. On Tuesday October 8th, our host Carousel Bayrd was joined by Rob Chappell, the director of strategic communications for the Overture Center for the Arts, and Pam Andros the director of Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission and Senior Planner for Dane County, to discuss the Overture Center for the Arts as well as the arts in Madison.