Welcome to another edition of "Community Keyboards" produced and presented by Ian Wolstenholme and also broadcast available on Oldham Community Radio 99.7FM - www.oldhamcommunityradio.com.
Featuring all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from the mighty classical and theatre organ pipe organs to the latest in digital home keyboards and beyond. Music old and new from international, national, local and amateur performers plus regular guest interviews, news, information and features exclusively available on this channel.
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Gordon Stewart, organist at Huddersfield Town Hall chats with me about the renovation of a pipe organ in Gee Cross. We meet organist Richard Hills at the Victoria Hall in Saltaire to find out more about his sparkling keyboard career. The first round of winners of the latest Keyboard Music Forum online challenge are featured as they take on the “country” theme and there’s a chance to hear a couple of tracks from organist Mark Laflin’s new CD recorded on Compton organ in St John Vianney Church in Clayhall. All this plus lots of music from the theatre and electronic organ world. Our second edition features a new name to the digital theatre organ marketplace – Mason Lowe – and Tower Ballroom star Phil Kelsall MBE presents this brand new instrument in Manchester for its first airing exclusive to Community Keyboards and we hear about it’s concept and development plans from Richard Lowe and David Mason. We journey over to Blackpool’s Opera House to hear four “Organists on Parade” – David Lobban, Stephen Austin, Cameron Lloyd and Alec Walters and hear some exclusive recordings of the superb 80-year old Wurlitzer there.
