REMINDER: The in-studio Folkstage concerts begin at 7pm. The on-air portion of the evening remains at 8pm.
Live Folkstage Broadcast Schedule:
Folkstage, heard Saturday's at 8 PM on WFMT, immediately preceding The Midnight Special, is an uninterrupted, one-hour concert featuring some of the best traditional and singer-songwriter talent in folk music. About 23 concerts per year are broadcast live from our studio in front of an audience. The remainder of the concerts are from our archives that stretch back 45 years, recent recordings made in the Chicago area, live broadcasts from the Old Town School of Folk Music, or recorded portions of our live studio concerts that were not previously broadcast. The series is totally listener funded, and made possible in part by Peter & Nancy Clark, Andy & Becky Anderson, Art Yefsky, an Anonymous Family Foundation and the members of the WFMT Fine Arts Circle.
REMINDER: The in-studio Folkstage concerts begin at 7pm. The on-air portion of the evening remains at 8pm.
Live Folkstage Broadcast Schedule:
August 23, 2008: Jan Krist
August 30: Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
September 6: Beth Wood - the live broadcast will be at 6 pm
September 13, 2008: Pete Morton
September 20, 2008: *Sally Spring
October 11: Wilderness Plots featuring Krista Detor, Tim Grimm, Carrie Newcomer, Tom Roznowski, and Michael White
October 25: Bob Zentz
November 1: *Ben Bedford
November 22: Kitty Donohoe
December 6: Sally Martin
December 27: The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band and friends in a special Hanukkah celebration
February 7: Santa Cruz River Band
February 28, 2009: Jon Vezner
March 7, 2009: Hot Soup
March 14, 2009: Carrie Newcomer
March 21, 2009: Nick Annis
April 4, 2009: Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen
April 11, 2009: Emily Kurn
April 18, 2009: Amy Speace
April 25, 2009: Maria Dunn
FOLKSTAGE POLICY:
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 $200 plus $200 per person as the yearly membership and request Folkstage as your thank-you gift. After the first year, Folkstage membership costs $225 per person per year. Memberships are non-transferrable. We ask that you join during one of our fundraising Fine Arts Circle fundraisers in June 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 22 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. If you have questions, please use our contact form.
* We realize that not everyone can be a member of the Fine Arts Circle at the Folkstage level. Fortunately, you can see the artists marked with the asterisk at the following venue.