What has happened or may happen in the local music scene
The 14th Annual Porcupine Mountain Music Festival took place in late August of 2018, making this the 13th year that I have volunteered at the festival. In the early days, a typical four hour shift involved a little emcee work and manning the sound board at a couple of workshops. By the fourth year, emceeing […]
We would like to take the opportunity to say ‘welcome back’ or just plain ‘welcome’ to our regular and/or new listeners. WOAS-FM 88.5 went on the air in December of 1978 making this year the beginning of our 40th year on the air. It would be great to tell you there is a big party […]
Scroll down beyond the posts to find the puzzle section courtesy of State Point Media! Station Contact Information: 701 Parker Ave. Ontonagon, MI 49953 ken@oasd.k12.mi.us woas@oasd.k12.mi.us Phone: 906 813 0614 Ext 113 Welcome to YOUR SOUND CHOICE! The fall 2018 broadcast schedule is almost upon us – new things await, some old problems left […]
Greetings – just a quick note to remind visitors to this site that I am retiring from the Ontonagon Area Schools as of June 30, 2018 – it is hard to believe that I have had the honor of working here for 43 years! The laws of our fair state demand that I have a […]
Cover Me is the name of an album we received a while ago from two time vets of the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival, Jimi and the Band of Souls. It is a collection of songs written by others but interpreted by the Band of Souls. It just so happens that it is also the […]
In the interest of brevity, I decided to not use “To solo or not to solo” as the title of this FTV. Reading Phil Collins’ memoir “Not Dead Yet” got me thinking about all the drummers I have had the pleasure to hear over the years. Listening to various types of music means one […]
David Fitzpatrick’s new album Parachutes in Hurricanes is the latest disk to make its way north from Milwaukee via Gary Tanin’s Daystorm Records. I was only able to give it a quick run through when Gary first sent it our way to preview and that is a poor way to listen to a new […]
Scroll down beyond the posts to find the puzzle section courtesy of State Point Media! Station Contact Information: 701 Parker Ave. Ontonagon, MI 49953 ken@oasd.k12.mi.us woas@oasd.k12.mi.us Phone: 906 813 0614 Ext 113 or Ext 109 Welcome to YOUR SOUND CHOICE! 2018 is here – new things await, some old problems left to fix – […]
It has been a while since I updated the old “welcome to WOAS-FM” page so that is in the offing over this Christmas Break. We have been granted a $1000 grant from the State of Michigan for the third consecutive year to run our Don’t be Distracted public service campaign (part of the statewide Strive […]
Part 1 of this article covered the ups and downs experienced by WOAS-FM during the first two decades of its existence. The ‘next twenty years’ began in 1997 when the Ontonagon Board of Education, UPPCO, and our listeners ponied up $9000 to rehab the station and get us back in fighting condition. It was […]