Calliope House, Inc.

Founded in 1976, Calliope is a non-profit organization that organizes and administers two concert series' and a folk music school. As the premier promoter of folk, roots, and acoustic music in southwestern Pennsylvania, Calliope's mission is to promote and preserve traditional and contemporary heritage-based music and its allied arts.

Calliope is one of the largest folk music organizations in the United States, and one of the few who run a subscription concert series in a concert hall as large as 600 seats. The Calliope Concerts series consists of 8 monthly concerts featuring the legends of folk music. The breadth of musical presentation is extraordinary, mirroring Calliope's commitment to presenting nationally and internationally revered masters of the blues, Cajun, American folk, African, Appalachian, Celtic, bluegrass and other musical traditions. Past performers include Richie Havens, Odetta, Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Earle, Jake Shimabukuro, Gillian Welch, Valerie June, Jorma Kaukonen and Doc Watson.