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Folkstage is an uninterrupted, one-hour concert featuring some of the best traditional and singer-songwriter talent in folk music. The live concerts can be are heard Saturday's at 8 PM on WFMT, immediately preceding The Midnight Special.

About 26 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 CT.
The on-air portion of the evening begins at 8pm CT.


NEXT LIVE FOLKSTAGE:
  Saturday, September 4

A Preview of the Fox Valley Folk Festival
The Fox Valley Folk Festival is taking place in Geneva September 5 & 6, featuring Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Joel Mabus and Lou & Peter Berryman live in the studio.

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HOW TO GET TICKETS TO LIVE FOLKSTAGE CONCERTS
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 $225 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 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. If you have questions, please use our contact form.

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