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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.

Rich Samuels hosts highlights of Madison’s summer classical music se...

October 11, 2019 by Access Hour

Rich Samuels hosts the broadcast premier of “Un Sueño Aplazado” (“A Dream Deferred”), by Madison composer Brianna Ware. This new work, commissioned and performed by the the Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra, was inspired by the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the southern border. The performance was recorded August 3, 2019 at Madison’s Grace Episcopal Church. […]

Music Featured on the March 20, 2014 Edition of “Anything Goes&#...

March 15, 2014 by Anything Goes

5:09 am: Concerto in F Major for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns and violin by Antonio Vivaldi. Performed by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner. 5:22 am: Pictures at en Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, transcribed for concert band by Paul Lavender. Performed by the U.S. Marine Band conducted by […]

Music Featured on the February 6, 2014 Edition of “Anything Goes...

February 1, 2014 by Anything Goes

5:09 am: Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins and Continuo (L’eestro armonico No. 8) by Antonio Vivaldi performed by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner. 5:20 am: The Pacifica Quartet performs the String Quartet NO. 10 in A-flat Major by Dimitri Shostakovich. 6:46 am: Soprano Jean Danton performs […]

Music Featured on the January 30, 3014 Edition of “Anything Goes...

January 25, 2014 by Anything Goes

5:09 am: “Mars, the Bringer of War” and “Venus, the Bringer of Peace” from The Planets by Gustav Holst. Transcribed for organ by, and performed by, Peter Sykes. 5:31 am: Concerto in F major for four violins and continuo (L’estro armonico No. 7) by Antonio Vivaldi. Performed by the Academy of Saint Martin in the […]

Music Featured on the January 9, 2014 Edition of “Anything Goes&...

December 25, 2013 by Anything Goes

5:09 am: Concerto in E minor for four violins by Antonio Vivaldi. Performed by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner 5:17 am: The Pacifica Quartet performs the String Quartet No. 9 by Dimitri Shostakovich, 5:45 am: The Rotterdam Philharmonic Chamber Players perform Kerry Turner’s Suite for Horn, Two Violins, […]

The WORT Madison, Wisconsin Area Classical Music Calendar for the Week...

August 6, 2013 by Anything Goes

Thursday August 8 7 pm at Rennebohm Park, 115 North Eau Claire, Madison. The Capitol City Band presents its 801st free concert. Friday, August 9, 7:30 pm at Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall, Madison. MAYCO, the Madison Area Youth chamber Orchestra, presents its “New Horizons” concert. The program features Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 […]

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