Arts + Literature Laboratory welcomes the guitar duo of Fareed Haque and Goran Ivanovic on Saturday, September 2 at 8pm. Tickets $18 in advance at haqueivanovic.bpt.me or $20 at the door. Online sales end 1 hour before the show. Doors open at 7:30pm. Inspired by the rhythms and melodies of flamenco, jazz, classical, rock and […]
Turn Up The Charts and Light Up The Phones!
This week we’re posting some genre charts as well as our top 30, including the #1 Jazz release “Turn Up The Quiet” by Diana Krall (pictured), who performed a great show in Madison last Saturday night at the Overture Center. Boss Hog hangs onto the #1 spot for a 2nd week on the Top 30; debuts […]
A Conversation with Zakir Hussain
Diaspora’s Terry O’Laughlin shares an interesting conversation about music and musical history with the great Indian tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, who’s worked with Mickey Hart, John McLaughlin, Eric Harland, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Béla Fleck, Pharoah Sanders, Charles Lloyd and many more. Zakir Hussain appears with Rahul Sharma on Thursday, April 27, 8 […]
WORT Music Charts for the week of Jan. 18-24, 2017
Current WORT charts: This is the new music that’s been played and streamed on the station in the past week, from indie rock and folk to garage, metal, and electronic, plus jazz and international sounds. Don’t forget you can always go to wortfm.org to listen live, stream archives of past programs on demand, and to […]
Diaspora Best of 2016
With the new year approaching, Diaspora host Terry O provides a compilation of favorite music from 2016. In no particular order: Abbar el Hamada – by Aziza Brahim – Glitterbeat label A stunning album of gorgeous songs that come from Brahim’s experience being born and raised in a Sahrawi refugee camp. “El canto de la […]
Madison World Music Festival Kicks Off (by Dan Talmo)
The 2016 Madison World Music Festival kicked off fabulously last night with the Enyedi-Salamon Ensemble from Hungary. Fronted by newlyweds Ágnes Enyedi (vocals) and Soma Salamon (accordion), the youthful quartet played traditional music from Hungary and of the Hungarian minorities in Transylvania and Moldva, Romania. Salamon also doubled on flutes. His medley of tilinko (overtone flute) […]