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
Joe Rollin (pronounced "RAH-Lin") Porter is a life-long Ohioan currently living in Cleveland. Although he's been playing
guitar since the age of nine and singing since long before that, he put music performance on the back shelf for decades.
He began making up for lost time in earnest since 2010, recording his first of three self-produced CDs and gigging, putting
in over 1,000 performances since then. Joe's dynamic guitar technique, compelling vocals, and musical passion will secure him
his place on a wider stage, where he belongs. Joe's fingerstyle acoustic guitar playing and vocals transcend genre and style,
viscerally connecting with music lovers of widely diverging tastes. His live performance can bring a room full of loud
distracted drinkers to a hushed silence, hanging on every note. The music primarily consists of Joe's own arrangements of
traditional American folk songs, with a dose of early rural blues and an occasional dash of Celtic flavor as well. The end
product is truly unique. Joe does not attempt to "authentically" replicate old-time music. Nor does he try to modernize the
old songs to make them appeal to contemporary commercial tastes. Rather, after years of absorbing and internalizing traditional
folk music, the songs flow out as natural self-expression. The result is an individual artistic statement that injects new life
and energy into the folk tradition, keeping the heritage alive and growing. If you don't care about any of that, but you like
great fingerstyle guitar playing, or simply enjoy high quality entertainment, Joe provides that too.