To attend WFMT's live broadcast
Folkstage concerts in our studio, you must join the
WFMT Fine Arts Circle for one year. The first year requires an initiation fee of $25 plus $250
per person as the yearly membership and request
Folkstage as your thank-you gift. After
the first year,
Folkstage membership costs $250 per person per year. Memberships are
non-transferrable. We ask that you join during one of our fundraising Fine Arts Circle fundraisers
in April or November, during the time
Folkstage or
The Midnight Special is being
broadcast. (We will accept memberships at other times during the fundraiser by prior arrangement.)
We present approximately 26 live studio concerts per year, although we make no guarantee of the
total number.
Under no circumstances do we sell admissions to individual concerts.
You must subscribe for the year to attend. Donations to the WFMT Fine Arts Circle are tax deductible
to the extent provided by law. All
Folkstage memberships come with free parking for the concerts
within yards of the door. If you have questions, please use our
contact form.
Join the WFMT Fine Arts Circle
Bettman & Halpin play original Folk/Americana. Their concerts combine high-energy upbeat bluegrass/roots inspired
compositions, beautiful ballads with soaring vocals and heartfelt lyrics, and groovy feel-good songs that audiences
will be singing in their heads for weeks thereafter. Interspersed between these songs and instrumentals, they tell
stories. They have become as known for their storytelling and playful banter as well as for their hooky whole-hearted
songwriting and instrumental wizardry. They have been touring as a duo since 2008, and incorporating a trio and quartet
since 2013. Bettman & Halpin have a well-earned reputation for hypnotizing performances filled with irresistible lyrics,
transcendent harmonies and roof-raising instrumentals. They can be found performing at various arts centers throughout
the US and abroad. Their music creates a fully acoustic, delightfully eclectic sound far greater than the sum of its parts:
taking the listener from up-tempo down home fiddlin', to soulful sorrowful ballads, to super hooky folk/pop with catchy
melodies and lyrics that will stick with you long after the concert is over. Touring together since 2008, Bettman & Halpin
have been recognized in various Regional and National competitions.