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About Us
We are the Wisconsin Union Directorate Music Committee. We book, promote, and cover shows every weekend at Memorial Union's Der Rathskeller/ Terrace.
WUD Music is run entirely by University of Wisconsin-Madison students who democratically decide which bands to book at our weekly meetings. WUD Music is a registered student organization, and membership is open to all UW-Madison students. We are always looking for new ideas, suggestions, or faces, so come on out and join us this fall. Our meetings are in Humanities 1651 on Tuesdays at 5:30pm, or check Today in the Union for room info. Please contact the director, Matt Forrest, at mbforr@gmail.com, about joining
Don't be afraid to ask questions. We all have to start somewhere.
Here are some of the departments within the Music Committee that we always need help with:
FREE Music (Memorial Union):
We program exclusively for:
Der Rathskeller is a place of conviviality with a German Beer Hall feel, where singer-songwriters (like David Bazan), to jam bands (like Perpetrual Groove and Tea Leaf Green) play in the quintessential college environment
The Terrace is one of the country's only lakeside venues that offers entirely free concerts and has seen bands like Umphrey's McGee, the Buzzcocks, Braid, Yo La Tengo, Seu Jorge, Arrested Development, the Blood Brothers and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, among many others.
Friday Night Series This takes place every Friday night from 5pm-7pm at the Memorial Union. The 1st Friday of every month will be "Friday Night Jamz," the 2nd and 4th will be a local series to showcase the local talent around Madison. The 3rd Friday will be a spoken word series and the 5th will be Trivia! For more information contact our Friday Night Series coordinator Jon Ash at jeash@wisc.edu
Campus Outreach: We can help you with event planning and finding a band/musical act for your event, as well as help you obtain finanical support for your event. If you are an independent promoter or campus student organization looking to collaborate with the music committee please contact Gabriel Herrera at gherrera@wisc.edu
Large Events: Large Events are ticketed and extend beyond the scopt of our free weekend music programming. Paid events happen in venues such as the Wisconsin Union Theater and the Great Hall in Memorial Union. The last academic year brought paind shows from Girl Talk, Ying Yang, Cursive and Minus the Bear. This year brings Broken Social Scene and more. Please contact Ethan Berlin at ehberlin@gmail.com for more information.
PROMOTIONS:
As the music industry changes we are looking for new ways to promote and reach new, broader audiences. This year brings developments of a committee Youtube channel, Facebook fanpage, blog and events e-mail list, as well as revision and extension of traditional promotion methods such as: flyering, print advertisements, ticket give-aways, silk-screen posters, etc. We will also be working and co-presenting with other promoters around Madison and are developing our own radio show, WUD Music presents. If you like getting out there and beating the pavement by posting fliers all over town or want to try your hand at designing posters/fliers for our shows or are a promoter in Madison who would like to co-present with us please contact Jamie Quam at jquam@wisc.edu