Texas Tech University School of Music
Hemmle Recital Hall
2624 W. 18^th Street (18^th Street and Boston Avenue)

The Tech Folk Orchestra (MUEN3110-204 19258; MUEN5110-205 21929) is recruiting for Fall 2026! Seeking singers, players, dancers, cosplayers, gamers, coders, LARPers, actors, and designers. Come and play with us in the Multiverse of Bassanda!

Open to participants from across the TTU campus and NOW OPEN TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS WELL! ALL ARE WELCOME: come as you are!

The Tech Folk Orchestra (http://eternalstalwartsorchestra.org is a medium ensemble (winds, brass, strings, percussion, voice, dance) specializing in group performance of various music and dance traditions that have been historically learned by ear and held in the memory, focused upon but not limited to musics of northwestern Europe and the Americas.

Currently, the ensemble includes winds, brass, strings, percussion, SATB vocals, and dancers; the repertoire is founded in the most traditional folkloric sources, from within and beyond northern and western Europe, but is arranged for the one-to-a-part chamber orchestration and sight-reading capacities of the expanded ensemble.

The TFO also has an “alternate history” alter ego, the “house band” of the Bassanda Multiverse (https://www.eternalstalwartsorchestra.org/), and engages with cosplay, speculative fiction, historical role-playing games, and more.

For more information: [email protected]

Recent concert performance: https://youtu.be/Ez19hapEptg?t=3207
PBS television special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHIe7EoKi8M
The Eternal Stalwarts Orchestra: Symphonic folk from a lost world
Director: Dr Christopher J Smith (https://www.depts.ttu.edu/…/faculty/chris-j-smith.php)
Rehearsals and performances at TTU SOM (LBK campus).
First tutti meeting Sunday August 30 2026 5-7pm room M011 (“West Hall”) in the TTU School of Music

https://www.facebook.com/vernacularmusiccenter
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/community/centers/vernacular-music/