Bios and stories about the artists we feature
My annual ritual of summarizing the backstage events of the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival dates back more than a dozen years. I was organizing some of the articles that I keep filed chronologically, so naturally I started re-reading some of these ghosts of PMMFs past. With the COVID-19 pandemic scuttling our favorite local festival this […]
Thought it only right to add a clip of Peggy James’ digital single Hard Times – so to just make the point again, I found out that the machine hosting our webpage, weather station, audio, and video feeds is toast…such is life. Intrepid techie Paul is pretty much having to start from scratch with the new machine, […]
Quick: Which of these names does not sound like it belongs on this list of iconic rock musicians? Keith Moon, Leslie West, Jimi Hendrix, Felix Pappalardi, John Lennon, Jack Bruce, or Laurence Gordon Laing? If you guessed the last one, you get a gold star, but note that I did NOT say ‘does not belong’ […]
How are you doing? I have been contemplating the world and looking for something to post on the WOAS-FM.ORG website to provide hope for the future. I was thinking, “What we need is an anthem for 2020 – something that tells the story of these last strange months but leaves the door open a […]
Here is a brief, two question music quiz to get your mental gears turning: Question 1 – True or False: Stevie Nicks was invited to join Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Question 2 – Multiple Choice: So far in her career, multi-instrumentalist Celisse has worked with or on – A) Melissa Etheridge, B) Lizzo, […]
A few years ago, we had the pleasure of bringing the Ontonagon Area Schools student body down to see the Rusty Wright Band at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts. I do not know about the kids and the band, but I had a blast (truthfully, a great time was had by all). We […]
During the summer of 1967, I was making the transition from Jr. High to my freshman year in High School. Little did I know that events taking place across the pond in London during the first six months of that year would have such a profound effect on me. The wheels really started turning […]
While the live music industry has been in a COVID-19 induced coma, artists have gone to great lengths to fill up their empty calendars. Some have spent the time pumping out socially distanced events on various media platforms while others have hit the studio. Whether these have been low tech phone affairs or higher tech […]
Just wanted to share a little Pandemic Beater from our favorite Aussie Import, Lachey Doley…if you haven’\’t checked him out, do yourself a favor. Years ago we got an extremely polite request from Lachey about airing his new single at the time and we have been spinning him ever since. Always a crack band and […]
When my wife and I were still in dating mode, we used to commute on alternate weekends (she was working in Marquette and I was in Ontonagon). My habit of borrowing albums to transfer on to cassette tapes provided me with my road music. My vehicle’s radio was strictly AM, so my stash of cassettes […]