FOOTMAD Presents

Our 42nd Concert Season
2023-2024

Enjoy nationally and world-acclaimed musicians
in intimate concert settings in the valley's finest theaters.

Advance Ticket Options

  • Order Online

    Order tickets online using your credit card or your PayPal account.

    Order season tickets or single concert tickets - click “Order Online” below.

  • Order by Mail

    Fill-in a ticket order form. Print form. Mail form and payment to FOOTMAD.

    Order season tickets or single concert tickets - click “Order by Mail” below.

  • Order by Phone

    Call 304-729-4382 to order with your credit or debit card.

  • Cassie & Maggie MacDonald

    Cassie & Maggie MacDonald

    2023 September 30

    Capitol Theater (Resurrection Church)
    123 Summers St - Charleston WV

    Classic Celtic from Nova Scotia, Canada

    Sisters who play, sing and dance

  • Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert

    Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert

    2023 November 11

    ​WV Culture Center
    State Capitol Complex
    Charleston WV

    Modern folk with traditional roots

  • From China to Appalachia

    Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian: FROM CHINA TO APPALACHIA

    2023 December 9

    Capitol Theater (Resurrection Church)
    123 Summers St - Charleston WV

    Unique blend of World and Appalachian traditions

  • John Cowan

    John Cowan’s Newgrass All-Stars

    2024 ​January 13

    The Clay Center
    Walker Theater entrance
    (Corner of Brooks and Washington streets)
    Charleston WV

    Modern Bluegrass featuring the “Voice of Newgrass”

    Presented in partnership with the Woody Hawley Concert Series

  • Old Time Winter Breakdown

    2024 ​February 2 and 3
    ​​WV Culture Center
    State Capitol Complex
    Charleston WV

    A weekend of old time music, dance and workshops presented by regional masters.

    Saturday concert featuring Appalachia’s finest in traditional music -

    Friday night square dance with calling by Taylor Runner and music by Long Point String Band.

    Saturday afternoon workshops: fiddle, guitar, harmony signing, square dance calling, flatfoot dance, storytelling, lap dulcimer, mandolin and "the banjo of Frank George”.

    Saturday night concert featuring The Price Sisters, Jesse Milnes & Friends and Bobby Taylor's Kanawha Tradition with Johnny Staats

  • Dàimh

    Dàimh

    2024 ​March 2

    Capitol Theater (Resurrection Church)
    123 Summers St - Charleston WV

    Gaelic supergroup and un-challenged champions of straight in the eye Highland music

    “Folk Band of the Year (2015 and 2018)” - Scots Trad Music Awards

    This concert is the mainstage event of Charleston’s annual Celtic Calling Gathering.

  • Season Tickets

    $100 Adults / Seniors
    $ 60 Students
    Children under 13 admitted free
    (Pick up child tickets at the box office on the night of the concert)

  • Tickets

    $25 General admission
    $20 Seniors
    $10 Students
    Children under 13 admitted free
    (Pick up child tickets at the box office on the night of the concert)


    John Cowan tickets are $25 (for all ages) and available online only at the Clay Center box office or by calling 304-561-3570.

    You can purchase tickets in advance or at the box office on the night of concert.

  • Concert Time

    Concert starts at 7:30 pm

    Box office sales start at 7:00 pm
    For John Cowan and Dàimh box office opens at 6:30 pm

    Doors open at 7:00 pm


  • Concert FAQs

    See our Concert FAQs page for box office and concert times, seating options and more.

Advance Ticket Options

  • Order Online

    Order tickets online using your credit card or your PayPal account.

    Order season tickets or single concert tickets - click “Order Online” below.

  • Order by Mail

    Fill-in a ticket order form. Print form. Mail form and payment to FOOTMAD.

    Order season tickets or single concert tickets - click “Order by Mail” below.

  • Order by Phone

    Call 304-729-4382 to order with your credit or debit card.

This concert series is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.

The engagement of Dàimh is made possible in part through the Special Presenter Initiatives program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​FOOTMAD appreciates Fund for the Arts major donors ($10,000+) who keep culture strong in the Kanawha Valley: City of Charleston, Cecil I. Walker Charitable Trust, Daywood Foundation, Spilman Thomas & Battle, Truist Foundation of West Virginia, WSAZ.