LOCAL/LIVE – 8/4/26 – CULLAH
POSTED:: July 23, 2026
FILED UNDER:: In-Studio Performances, Local/Live
Join WMSE Music Director Sid and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild for another Local/Live with Cullah.
Every April 27 since 2006, Cullah has released a new open-source album from his Milwaukee studio. His sound layers folk-acoustic textures into electronic production, anchored by a primal, generational vocal. His 2022 record Firebird won the 2023 WAMI Album of the Year; it’s one of seventeen full-lengths he’s released on this ritual date.
Cullen recently did a full reworking of Camille Saint-Saëns’ 1874 Danse Macabre. Saint-Saëns wrote his version about Death playing fiddle at midnight on Halloween, raising the dead for one last dance before the rooster crows them back into the ground. I kept that bones-and-violins skeleton and rebuilt it around what happens inside a hospital when a stroke hits. The dance never stops. It just changes who’s leading. This was for the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Project Wonder team. They reached out asking if he would score a film for them at the intersection of music and medicine. It is included in Cú Chulainn.
Local/Live is engineered by Nicholas Elert.
Local/Live is presented by Outpost Co-op, “We believe good food brings us together,” and Cedar Teeth.
Tune into 91.7FM or stream at wmse.org at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, August 4 at 6 p.m. for a live performance and interview with Cullah.
