What has happened or may happen in the local music scene
Greetings – We had an idea we could do some limited broadcasting and advertise the school district food distribution program – then Gov. Whitmer asked for a longer period of physical separation. We are taking this seriously so we are probably off the air until at least April 14, 2020. If it is possible to […]
I don’t suppose there is a big need to explain the reasons . . . WOAS-FM 88.5 is located in the library of the Ontonagon Area Schools. With the State of Michigan mandating all k-12 schools be closed until at least April 6, 2020, we will be OFF THE AIR until such time as school […]
Another new year begins. Does anybody really want another reminder that time marches on? The Friday before last Thanksgiving, my phone rang early in the morning with the kind of news that reminds us all that we aren’t getting any younger. My old guitar playing buddy from Sledgehammer, Barry Seymour, called from L.A. to […]
The year 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ first album. The self-title record has become a cult classic and as cofounder Kim Wilson recalls, “Things were wide open back then. There were hundreds of stages where bands could show what they had.” If one remembers the days when […]
Twenty years ago, WOAS-FM was actively hunting for some sort of public service project to join. The old adage ‘seek and ye shall find’ truly came into play because less than a month after the search began, the paperwork for a recycling project from an organization called The Funding Factory landed in the mailbox. The […]
My sister had one of those cloth covered boxes with a hinged lid (the lid was red and the bottom was off white) that served as her record player. It had a lever so you could switch between 33 ? and 45 RPM records. The tone arm and needle weighed enough that it probably […]
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 […]