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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.

The WORT 89.9 FM Madison, Wisconsin Area Classical Music Calendar for ...

June 26, 2013 by Anything Goes

Thursday June 27, 7 pm at Tennebohm Park, 115 N. Eau Claire Ave, Madison. The Capitol City Band. Concerts last one hour; bring a lawn chair and a friend for listening comfort Concerts continue each Thursday through August. Friday, June 28, 7:30 pm at the Stoughton Opera House, 381 Main Street, Stoughton. The Bach Dancing […]

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June 28, 2013 by Anything Goes

5:09 am: George Gershwin’s “Lullaby”, “Summertime” and “Our Love is Here to Stay” performed by the Venice Quartet, the Cincinnati Pops, Cathy Berberian and Jan DeGaetani. 5:23 am: George Gershwin’s “Embraceable You” performed by pianists John and Richard Contiguglia (playing an arrangement by Percy Grainger) and organist Harold Stover. 5:34 am: Pianists John and […]

The WORT 89.9 FM Madison, Wisconsin Area Classical Music Calendar for ...

July 15, 2013 by Anything Goes

Thursday, July 18 7 pm at Rennebohm Park, Madison The Capitol City Band in concert. Friday July 19 7:30 pm at UW Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall, Madison. Repeated Saturday, 7/20 at 7:30 pm, Sunday 7/21 at 3 pm, Thursday 7/25, Friday 7/26 and Saturday 7/27 at 7 pm, Sunday, 7/28 at 3 pm). The […]

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August 3, 2013 by Anything Goes

5:09 am: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven. Performed by Cameron Watson. 5:32 am: String Quartet No. 4 in D major by Dmitri Shostakovich. Performed by the Pacifica Quartet. 5:58 am: Soprano Amy Haworth and fortepianist Trevor Stephenson perform “Wandrers Nachtlied” by Franz Schubert. 6:08 am: The New York Philharmonic […]

Music Featured on the December 12, 2013 Edition of “Anything Goe...

December 11, 2013 by Anything Goes

5:09 am: Weihnachtsbaum of Franz Liszt performed by pianist Eteri Andjiaparidze and duo pianists Richard and John Contiguglia. 6:08 am: Chicago a Capella conducted by Jonathan Miller performs Fragments from his Dish by Bob Chilcott. 6:26 am: The Oakwood Chamber Players perform Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams. 6:37 am: A Little Suite for […]

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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, […]

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