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If the 11th Annual Porcupine Mountain Music Festival was scored like a baseball game, the box score would read: A lot of runs, hundreds of walks, one error, and no weather delays. Some weather was evident on the radar Friday evening, but the two storms passed north and south of the festival grounds. The […]
Choir! Choir! Choir! This bears more investigation – but a moving tribute in any case.
WOAS-FM 88.5 and the Ontonagon Area Schools Senior Service Project class will be teaming up in February 2016 to conduct a driving safety campaign called DON’T BE DISTRACTED. The program will be aimed a students in grades 6 throught 12. SSP and WOAS volunteers will be conducting a survey to gauge our students level […]
Shown (l-r) Mary Farias, Lexi Hill, Destiny Pestka, Grace Welling, and Dominique Hamm (missing from photo – Kinsey Picotte). Once upon a time, the WOAS-FM day-shift was populated by students who were seeking an escape from study hall. Times change and the demands of the OASD academic classes on a much small teaching staff have […]
Anyone remember the the game “Six degrees of Kevin Bacon?” It essentially follows that any actor one can think of can be connected to actor/musician Kevin Bacon in six or less steps (or degrees, if you will). It is an adaptation of the old parlour game that says that any two people on Earth are […]
Oh my – how did I miss this in 2013? If you did too, let me explain – Def Leppard concocted a fictious Def Leppard band Ded Flatbird and opened for themselves during a nine night run in Las Vegas – what a concept – certainly looks like they had fun. Apparently some in the […]
I started on the topic of keyboard players a while back and began making a mental note of the ones who stood out in my mind. Never try and make a mental list that encompasses nearly 50 years of concert and album memories. I am probably going to have to get one of those ‘on-board […]
4/7 of our day shift (bottom photo: l – r: Kaitlyn Ray, Zacc Ray, Anna Fuller, and Riley Gilmore) want to say ‘have a safe and happy holiday season’. They also want to remind you that WOAS will be off air from Dec 19 to Jan 3 with normal broadcasting to resume on Monday January […]
Our long time radio buddy Joe Kirkish (who was responsible for starting the first campus radio station at MTU back in the day) had some interesting items in a recent edition of Over 60 in the Nov 21, 2015 Daily Mining Gazette. For starters, he discusses how flippantly folks use the term ‘billion’ as in ‘billions […]
There was a twenty year window that opened around 1965 when a lot of great, nationally known bands made their way to Marquette. Living as I did across the street from the Northern Michigan University campus and within sight of Hedgecock Fieldhouse (where most concerts were held before Lakeview Arena was built), all I had […]