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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Rose Baldino and Brian Buchanan met 10 years ago, late one night backstage at a theatre in rural Pennsylvania.
Brian's band Enter The Haggis and Rose's group Burning Bridget Cleary were sharing a stage that evening, and the
two bonded over a love of Irish fiddle tunes, Radiohead, and 4 AM whiskey. Their paths crossed a dozen times over
the next decade on the road, but it wasn't until the Folk Alliance 2014 conference in Kansas City that they finally
became musical collaborators. Burning Bridget Cleary's guitarist and drummer had their flights canceled at the last
minute, and Rose (in desperation) asked Brian to grab a guitar and join her onstage. The two performed with virtually
no rehearsal for over an hour, and their connection was powerful and immediate. A few months later Brian moved from
Canada to Philadelphia, and as a tribute to the first tune Rose ever taught Brian, House of Hamill was born. Brian and
Rose are both accomplished traditional fiddle players and classical violinists, and despite being young, have over 25
years of writing and performance experience between them. Together, they write unusual new fiddle tunes and exciting,
unpredictable original songs while also breathing new life into traditional and contemporary songs. Both are confident
and unique lead vocalists, and the blend of their two voices in harmony is hypnotic and irresistible. Whether House of
Hamill is playing songs from their debut album "Wide Awake" or stomping through a set of original jigs and reels from
their follow-up "March Through Storms", their chemistry onstage is always engaging and often hilarious. In the summer of
2018, their quirky all-violin cover of "Sweet Child Of Mine" went viral, amassing over 15 million views and more than
400,000 shares on Facebook in just a few weeks, and was picked up by publications all over the world. House of Hamill
is on the bleeding edge of a new generation of traditional musicians.