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
Blending brave and honest songwriting, first-rate musicianship, and a huge helping of native Canadian wit, Nancy Beaudette
is an artist of songs and heart. She was raised near Cornwall, Ontario, a place sustained by farming and millwork where French
and English languages were friendly neighbours. Her songwriting delves into those roots, weaving a nostalgic past into lush
songs of familial history, good-humored folly and poignant observations of life and loss. As a budding 11-year-old musician,
she cut her teeth chording along to her grandfather's old-time fiddling and devoured other influences as fast as she could
find them: show tunes and pop songs and everything in the Reader's Digest Songbooks. Clarinet and saxophone made their entrance
in her adolescence where Nancy excelled in her position as first chair in the high school band, and in community theatre orchestras.
Singing and playing in a church choir also exerted a powerful influence over Beaudette's early musical career. For fans and
listeners, it will come as no surprise to learn that this award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter also happens to be an award-winning
sign-maker. Making signs and writing songs have much in common. Both begin with a creative inkling, both require a combination
of love, faith, and craft, that lead us to see the world in new ways. On-stage and off, Nancy practices hometown hospitality,
taking special pleasure in "greeting you at the door." Come to one of Beaudette's shows and you will experience first-hand all
the warmth and welcome of a Canadian kitchen party!