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
"Songs come in a flurry of inspiration. I don't understand it but I'm grateful." American singer-songwriter
Diana Jones has been called the "Emily Dickinson of song" and "the female Johnny Cash" in reviews and
rightfully so. But a journey of adoption and reunion as mysterious as her songwriting led to the gritty,
authentic, Americana storytelling that has become her life's work and her live show. Adopted as an infant
Diana grew up in suburban Long Island feeling an unexplained attraction to rural Southern music. "My
brother had Johnny Cash's live At Folsom Prison album, and I stole it from his room," Jones
recalls. "Whenever I heard that or someone like Emmylou Harris, I'd think, 'Wow, that's beautiful.' I
just didn't know where to find more of it." In her twenties the attraction was explained when Jones met
her biological grandfather, a singer and guitar player, who introduced her to the folk songs her ancestors
had been singing for generations. Gradually she discovered an uncanny affinity for Appalachian music and
began claiming it as her own as she discovered her true artistic calling.