ORGAN1st Radio News:

ORGAN1st Radio launched in October 2007 with the November 2011 edition marking our 50th show. The first fifty shows contained a visual slideshow as a backdrop to the music (we were the first organ/keyboard show to do this).

However in January 2012 this will be discontinued in favour of an audio only podcast which can be downloaded to your MP3 player (using iTunes etc). Show 51 (online on December 1st) will be our last one with a video screen. HOWEVER, past shows will still be available from the left-hand menu and Past Show Archive at OrganRadio.com

See the iTunes preview page for the new audio Podcasts. You can open this in iTunes, then click the subscribe link and get the latest editions as soon as they become available.

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Alan Ashton has also created videos of many famous organists which can be seen on his gramRfone channel on YouTube.

The Podcast is maintained by MSS Studios who also run the ORGANS.co.uk website where some of the recordings played on the show can be purchased.

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Folly Farm Concert: Melody, Rhythm and Song

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You have to be a certain age to remember the Black and White Minstrel Show, a TV variety show famous for its white dancers with blacked up singers. In an era before political correctness, the show won the 1961 Golden Rose and could guarantee an audience of up to 19 million. Evoking memories of Saturday night television of the 60s and 70s, Minstrel Star, Bob Hunter, will be joining organist Michael Wooldridge and percussionist to the stars, Phil Solomon for a night of Melody, Rhythm and Song at Folly Farm, on Saturday 10 September at 7.00pm.

When the closest thing to variety these days is choosing between Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor on a Saturday night, why not treat yourself to a night of nostalgia in Folly Farm’s vintage fun fair with the music from the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ and the dulcet tones of Bob Hunter. Presenting songs from the shows, some Glen Miller and Beatles classics and a good old fashioned Blackpool Tower sing-a-long, this night of Melody, Rhythm and Song can be enjoyed by all generations.

Tickets are £8.00 and available at the Folly Farm Box Office: 01834 812731. Pre-show and interval basket meals are available and pre-booking is advisable. For further details please visit

www.folly-farm.co.uk

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15th July 2011 - NEWS RELEASE:

A new website has been created under the banner of PENALADOR to show a way that organ societies can increase numbers attending concerts with trailers of forthcoming artistes. Also included is the means of promoting players new albums.

Penalador Productions use the video screens that societies have to highlight players hands on keyboards. The productions can be screened either during the interval or before the show starts. Featured on the penalador.co.uk website is the first showreel video, a YouTube production highlighting the launch of Ian Griffin and His World of Dreams CD.

The copyright of Penalador and its innovative format is owned by Alan Ashton who has over fifty years of experience with screen productions from cinema to television.

There will be a premier showing of a Penalador production at the Wessex World Organ Society (WOW) on 21st July 2011, when Ian Griffin appears in concert and will launch his long awaited album.

Visit the new penalador.co.uk website