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Musical ramblings from the manager
We are sad to report the passing of our beloved black cat, Mr. B. He was the boss, we were the obedient servants, and I can say without hesitation that he brought a lot of joy to our home over the past 8 years. When Mr. B’s owner died, he was a big (20 lbs […]
WOAS-FM 91.5 wrapped up its tenth consecutive STRIVE 4 A SAFER DRIVE public service campaign on April 16, 2025. The S4SD program is sponsored by the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) and Ford Philanthropy. All Michigan high schools are eligible to apply for these yearly grants. WOAS-FM 91.5 is owned by […]
Blues Music Magazine is a quarterly publication I have subscribed to for many years. I have been a fan of all types of music for years but it was former WOAS-FM General Manager Mike ‘Zenith’ Bennett’s over the top love for the genre that got me deeper into the blues. BMM is published quarterly […]
At the end of 2024, I took some time to repay a long overdue debt. Over the last decade, Gary Tanin from Daystorm Music in Milwaukee has been kind enough to send me music from a host of artists he has worked with. Corresponding via email, I got to know a bit about Gary […]
Perhaps Joe South said it best: Walk a mile in my shoes / Walk a mile in my shoes / Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse / Better walk a mile in my shoes (1968). These words popped into my head when I read comments deriding a pop star for complaining about how […]
WOAS-FM will be on spring break the last week of March – see you back on www-woas-fm.org as we await the delivery of our new tower bays so we can get back to over the air broadcasting at 91.5 fm in June! Have a safe ‘spring’ break! Thank you to Citizens State Bank for the […]
Michigan has been the home of numerous rock stars. Near the top, if not on the top, of that list would have to be Bob Seger. Detroit born, Ann Arbor raised, Seger went from the barrooms to arenas before he retired from touring in 2019 (at the conclusion of his Travelin’ Man Tour), but his […]
Wait…what? Who is Eddie and why are we happy that he is 50? First off, my father’s given name was Eddie Rudolf Raisanen and there is a 50 year connection to that moniker, but we will come back to that a little later. The Eddie in the above title is the beloved mascot of […]
We all learned the rhyme at some point in our schooling: Fourteen hundred ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. For far too many years, our history classes were fixated on giving Christopher Columbus credit for being the first to discover the Americas. Without considering the indigenous people who already lived in both North, […]
With a couple of notable Lunar events taking place in March, let us start this AstroCal by focusing on our neighbor. The Full Moon will take place on March 14 and bears the curious name of The Worm Moon. It is so named because this month, “the earthworms start to appear in the soil […]