Community Keyboards

Welcome to the second of two May editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from: DAVID GILSON, MRS MILLS, REGINALD DIXON MBE, HOWARD BEAUMONT, ALAN HAVEN and winner of the recent Keyboard Music Foru...

Welcome to the first of two May editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from: ANGELA TURNER-JOHNSON and PETER MANNING ROBINSON.  Our special guest this time is STEPHEN VINCENT who chats about...

Welcome to the second of two April editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from ANDY CARVILL, MICHAEL CLARK (winner of recent TDP Forum Challenge), HANS GUNTHER WAGNER, GRAEME WRIGHT, STEPHEN VINC...

Welcome to the first of two April editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from: ALLAN MURRAY, JOHN MANN and KLAUS WUNDERLICH and our look back at vintage organs of yesteryear takes us to the lette...

Welcome to the second of two March editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from: TIM DUCKWORTH, HOWARD BEAUMONT & JOHN TAYLOR, HARRY FARMER, ARNOLD LOXAM, MIKE HALL plus special guest JAMES DU...

Welcome to the first of two March editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from MIKE REED, KEITH HORTON, GABRIEL ALDORT, ALEX PAYLER, ROGER SAYER, CARLO ASPRI, ANDY CARVILL, BRIAN SHARP, ALEX MCALL...

Welcome to the second of two February editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from ANDREW VARLEY, RONNY WHITE, ZACH FRAME, DANIEL WATT, GEORGE WRIGHT, BRYAN RODWELL, WILLIAM DAVIES, NIGEL OGDEN pl...

Welcome to the first of two February editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from EDDIE RUHIER, FRED MELLINK, CHRIS POWELL, CLAUDIA HIRSCHFELD with DAVID DORING plus music and conversation with sp...

Welcome to the second of two January editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from DAVID GRAY, ERIC LORD, ALEXANDER MCALLISTER, ANGELA TURNER-JOHNSON, GRAEME WRIGHT, GLENN DERRINGER, DENNIS OYSTON,...

Welcome to the first of two January editions of the award-winning Community Keyboards - celebrating all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises - from theatre and classical organs to the latest in digital keyboard technology and beyond. Music on this programme from JONATHAN SCOTT, ERIC LORD, ANDREW VARLEY, JON DAVIES, HUGH WALLINGTON, JON TAYLOR, BRIAN DAWSON, DIRKJAN RANZIJN, M...

Welcome to a special edition of Community Keyboards for New Year's Eve 2020 - and a chance to hear a few concert items as befits the time of year when many people look forward to the annual New Years DAY concerts on TV and radio. PENNY WEEDON, WILL SHAW, PHIL LEADER, SIMON GLEDHILL and KLAUS WUNDERLICH provide the music. It's been quite a year!  Hopefully, 2021 will see the gradual return to...

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises. The second of our two December programmes including, not unsurprisingly, music and features with a nod to the season of goodwill.  There's music from HOWARD BEAUMONT, HENRY CROUDSON, WILLIAM DAVIES, NIGEL OGDEN, EDDIE LAYTON, GLYN MADDEN, ALEX McALLISTER pl...

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises. The first of two programmes including, not unsurprisingly, music and features with a nod to the season of goodwill.  There's music from DAVID DUNLAP, RODNEY JANTZI, CHIHO SUNAMOTO, CATHERINE DRUMMOND, ARNOLD LOXAM, HECTOR OLIVERA, ANTONIO MARIA MAYOLAS, JOH...

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises. In the words of the old gag "we've got a mixed bag today...and she'll be here soon", variety galore on this edition including some collaborations of organists with other instrumentalists, plus a look back at fifty years of Wersi organs and, as I start to digitis...

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises. On this programme I chat with CHRIS BARBER, musical director and organist at London's Musical Museum as we discover how this popular attraction has diversified during the coronavirus pandemic.  There's music from Chris and Joseph Seal plus one or two surpri...

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises.  Featuring music from WAYNE MARSHALL, JONATHAN SCOTT, MARK SHAKESPEARE, CHRIS POWELL, ROBERT SUDALL, JOZEF SKRYKEC, KLAUS WUNDERLICH, DAVID LOWE, TDP Keyboard Forum winners REV TONY NEWNHAM and CHARLES HUGHES and CLAUS RIEPE.

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises.  A special edition coming from the recent East Yorkshire International Organ Festival and featuring music and conversation from enthusiasts and experts in the mechanical music arena.

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises.  On this programme we hear from many of the organ and keyboard world personalities who have "kept the home fires burning" during lockdown with music and messages from PENNY WEEDON, MICHAEL CARTER, ANDREW VARLEY, PETE SHAW, KEITH EVANS, MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE, M...

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises.  On this programme we hear from many of the organ and keyboard world personalities who have "kept the home fires burning" during lockdown with music and messages from JEAN MARTYN, MARK THOMPSON, JANE PARKER-SMITH, DIRKJAN RANZIJN, MIKE SULLIVAN, JACK EMBLOW...

Welcome to the latest edition of Community Keyboards - celebrating everything that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises.  On this programme I chat with HOWARD BEAUMONT about his latest Hammond organ recording and catch up with DR CAROL WILLIAMS from her home in Virginia USA to find out about her distinguished career at the console.   Plus there's music from RICHARD...

Welcome to another edition of Community Keyboards featuring all that's best from the King of Instruments in all its guises.  Two guests join me this time - MARK THOMPSON and HUGH WALLINGTON.  Mark, like many of his colleagues in the music business, has been providing online mini-concerts for his fans and took time out to chat with me from his North-East home via FaceTime audio. A regular...

Welcome to the first of our July editions of Community Keyboards featuring all the best from the King of Instruments in all its guises, in which my special guest is ANDREW GILBERT.  Andy has had a wonderfully diverse career in music as demonstrator, concert artist, composer, teacher and much more.  Enjoy this personality profile as Andrew joins me from his home via Skype.

Today, Monday 29th June marks the 85th birthday of Merseyside organist DAVE NICHOLAS Dave was born on June 29th 1935, very aptly, opposite the Plaza Cinema in Birkenhead, Merseyside, that had a 3/12 Compton Theatre organ. His parents moved in 1938 to Tranmere, Birkenhead, where, at the age of nineteen, he started playing organ professionally at the Plaza Cinema during the ice cream intervals. He p...

Warning!  Today's Lockdown Listen is bit narcissistic.  It's also the last for now as things hopefully return to a little normality. Someone asked me recently. If I'd ever been interviewed. I had to think about it, and first reaction was to say no - I wouldn't be brave enough.  But then,  I remembered, an afternoon in Blackburn, back in 1996, which was to all intents and purposes, the start of a t...

Today's Lockdown Listen is another "hot off the press" editions.  It's a real delight to welcome international star organist DR CAROL WILLIAMS to chat about her sparkling career.  You'll hear Carol play MISTY on the Allen Quantum organ from a live 2014 concert, her own composition DIETRICH’S DILEMMA, the delightful GIVE ME JESUS on the Viscount Sonos 359 and Hallett and Davis piano, THE VENUS TOCC...