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 […]
From time to time it is kind of fun to go back and look at how we got here. For WOAS-FM, ‘here’ means ‘still here as we enter our 40th year on the air’. While yours truly has been in Ontonagon as long as the station has been on the air, I was more […]
Would the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival’s 13th edition prove to be a convergence of bad luck? For people who suffer from triskaidekaphobia, it would seem that PMMF # 13 would have been the one to avoid. For those of us who harbor no such fears, we would have found that the unnatural fear of […]
There are many categories of band gigs: teen dances, wedding receptions, private parties, and bar gigs make up the normal mix for most bands. To my personal list, I could add playing in a tent at the U.P. State Fair and gigs in churches (both in the basement and the sanctuary). Again, bands from just […]
After many months of teasing – Jack Spann’s new CD hits the streets on June 16th! We have been sent frequent updates on the new album by Spann’s producer Gary Tanin at Daystrom Records in Milwaukee. We will be going on summer hiatus about the time Beautiful Man from Mars hits the street, but […]
It is always interesting to hear the sound bites that the news media gather in the graduation season. Every person tabbed as a graduation speaker will put their spin on “Oh the places you will go”, with some resorting to reading the whole tome of the same name written by the late Dr. Seuss. […]