Each Monday a different community group or individual hosts the show. Assistance is provided with recording a promotional announcement to be aired the week prior to the show and with sound board engineering the night of the show. In order to keep the show accessible, any individual or group is limited to one show per year. The Access Hour is often booked several months in advance. To sign up to host an Access Hour show, call Ken Rineer at 256-2001 on Monday evenings or e-mail accesshour@wort-fm.org.
Access Hour
Monday, January 28 — the Thursday Fiction Writers Group
01/22/13 12:23 PM | Access Hour
This week’s Access Hour is produced by the Thursday morning fiction writers group. They’ll share stories from the imaginations of five Madison-area writers. The readings’ll be drawn from works including flash fiction, short stories, and novels currently underway by the group members. They also can discuss the group’s process of critiquing and mutual support that helps them each do better.
read article »Monday, January 21 — No Access Hour scheduled this week
01/16/13 9:48 AM | Access Hour
The Access Hour does not have a program scheduled for this evening because WORT’s live broadcast of the Martin Luther King Day celebration downtown could run beyond 7 pm. The live broadcast is expected to continue past 7 pm until its conclusion. The Something Wonderful music program is expected to air at 8 pm as usual. The Access Hour will air again on Monday, January 28, with the “Thursday Writers Group” and continue on from there through the season.
read article »Monday January 14 — singer-songwriter-poet Carell Casey
01/11/13 10:05 AM | Access Hour
The Monday January 14 Access Hour is produced by local singer-songwriter-poet Carell Casey. Carell performs mostly her own songs and other pieces live in the studio and plays tracks from her CD. She also reads some of her own poetry and prose. We’d like to thank Carell for accepting this date on short notice after originally requesting one farther into the season.
read article »Monday — January 14, 2013 — Piano Music of Matthew Hollingsworth
01/8/13 3:15 PM | Access Hour
Janesville pianist and composer Matthew Hollingsworth has been working on a new album of original piano music that he hopes to finish this winter. He’ll feature this music during this week’s Access Hour! Note: Matthew had to cancel for family reasons. He’ll reschedule some time in the future.
read article »Monday — January 7, 2013 — A program on Madison’s City Bus System
01/2/13 5:17 PM | Access Hour
On Monday, January 7, Madison Metro bus user Melvin Hinton will interview individuals associated with Madison Metro Transit, discussing how the Madison Metro system works, how to use it well, and maybe something about the historical successes of its drivers in the bus rodeos of yore.
read article »Monday, New Year’s Eve (December 31st) — preparty holiday music from Red Velvet
12/26/12 11:07 AM | Access Hour
Another wonderful program of music for the holidays – jazz lps especially, brought to you through the miracle of vinyl by DJ Red Velvet.
read article »Monday, December 24th — Christmas Eve with Gil Halstead
12/18/12 3:01 PM | Access Hour
Gil Halstead hosts a grand grab bag of great and good music for the holidays — a perspective can all enjoy! Special on WORT-FM for Christmas Eve.
read article »Monday, December 17 — A Celebration of Time Wave Zero and the Novelty Curve?
12/12/12 9:31 AM | Access Hour
Since scheduling this Access Hour slot, Donald Swadley has become the brand new on-air host of the brand new late-night Saturday program, “Feed Me Weird Things” from 3 am to 6 am Sundays. But this Access Hour… he’s looked forward to doing this show with love and excitedness for quite a while…has been literally waiting most of his life to do it….very excited! It’s a show featuring the work of Terrance McKenna, the topic of Time Wave Zero, or Novelty Theory. McKenna’s birthday was November 16, and the Novelty Curve reaches zero on December 21st…
read article »Monday, December 10 — David Bicknase and his Music
12/4/12 9:30 AM | Access Hour
David Bicknase, pianist and composer, will inspire and sooth you with Harmonies of the Spheres. The songs in this program, instrumentals on both electric and acoustic keyboards, are taken from over 25 albums of original writing; and are in styles from Ballads and Swing to Meditational and Space Music.
read article »Monday, December 3 — Venger Satanis
12/3/12 9:33 AM | Access Hour
Founder and leader of the Cthulhu Cult, Venger As’Nas Satanis, will be talking about everything under the hideous, corpulent moon… from the world ending to the Left Hand Path to H.P. Lovecraft. The Cult of Cthulhu is a religion of blood, slime, darkness, sorcery, and tentacles.
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