As sometimes happens with these From The Vaults pieces, I like to go back and revisit a topic when there is something new to add to a story. If we didn’t already need to be reminded that ‘time flies when you are having fun’, I went back to find the first volume of FTV: Lake […]
Volunteering at the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival has become the highlight of my summer. I first got involved with PMMF #2 and now circle the PMMF weekend in my engagement calendar far enough in advance that the family plans on me disappearing for two days near the end of August. After a few years of […]
Who is Burton Guibord and why haven’t we heard more about him? It turns out that he is a Native American musician with roots in northern Wisconsin. When our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Records in Milwaukee sent us a preview of Guibord’s record, Are We Free?, I was eager to learn more about […]
When WOAS-FM 88.5 celebrated being on the air for 30 years back in 2009, we asked current and former staffers to send us stories and recollections about their time volunteering at the station. We got more than we had anticipated, so we published a few highlights and posted the rest on a bulletin board for […]
WOAS-FM Celebrates 40 Years on the air – UPDATE How does one serve cake and ice cream to 300? Easy – find five willing volunteers who jump in feet first and get it done – THANK YOU so much to (l-r) Paige Weisinger, Caden Cleland, Kati Dombraski, Dominique Hamm, and Ailee Graff for making our […]
Have you ever felt snake bit? We had two Ford Taurus Wagons, drove them for twenty years, and then they stopped making them. That is okay, we said, our kids drove the same Mercury Sable through 8 years of college….we liked it, we can get one of those….and they stopped making them! We were just […]
Of course, as a non-commercial station, we don’t push products for sale . . . however, when the RWB were still based in Michigan, they made several stops in Ontonagon and we were fortunate to have them perform for the OASD student body at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts. With that said, we […]
The Arndt’s are at it again – they sent us a copy of their newest record The Fun in the Fight and we will be spinning it along with all the other great music they have sent us in the past. Jocelyn and Chris send out the greatest SWAG packages (usually food) but that isn’t why […]
One of my favorite pastimes is reading books and articles about drummers. Of particular interest to me are three basics bits of information: 1) How old were they when they became obsessed with drumming, 2) When and how did they acquire their first proper drum kit, and 3) What path did they follow before […]
WOAS-FM 88.5 will begin the new year with a Schwans Cares fundraising campaign to help replace some of our studio equipment. The WOAS EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT campaign will begin on January 1, 2019 and anyone who orders products from Schwans can donate to WOAS simply by including the campaign’s number 44259 . Schwans will donate […]