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.
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After moving from Texas to Minneapolis at age 16, Ellis got her start singing her own songs at open mics
where she quickly dropped her often-mispronounced former last name(Bergeron; her new married name is
Delaney). She joined a rock band in high school while also setting up her own record label to put out her
first solo CD Soft Day in 1996. In college at St Olaf, she fronted the band Bobby Llama and in
1999 the band was voted Sam Goody/Musicland's Best Unsigned Band in America. Ellis went solo and began
touring full-time in 2000. Since then she has independently sold more than 40,000 copies of her eight CDs.
Ellis got her start performing the women's festival circuit in 2000, with regular performances at the
Michigan Women's Music Festival. She also has headlined the National Women's Music Festival in 2006 &
2008 and the Virgina Women's Music Festival in 2009. She has also established herself as a rising artist
in the folk music community. She was voted "Most Wanted to Return" by the audience at the Falcon Ridge
Folk Festival in 2006, and at Sisters Folk Festival in 2009, and Moab (Utah) in 2012-2014 and has since
been invited to perform at several other folk festivals. She has also received several songwriting awards
and honors. In 2009, Ellis released a retrospective DVD entitled Scrapbook that includes a look
back at the first 12 years of her career, as well as a live concert and an MP3 CD with the songs from her
first five albums, including the first Bobby Llama CD.