If, like me, you've accepted the 10 albums in 10 days challenge, you'll know that you're not allowed to say anything - just to post the picture of the album cover.  

Well, I couldn't resist explanations - not on Facebook - but via this special edition of Community Keyboards which I hope you'll enjoy!

Blackpool Tower’s Ballroom is home to what must be the most famous and most played Wurlitzer in the world and Phil Kelsall has amazingly now completed more than 40 years at the Tower, having been appointed in 1975, initially as organist in the Tower Circus band with occasional appearances in the Ballroom.

In 1977 Ernest Broadbent the then Tower organist, retired through ill-health and Phil was the obvious choice as the new principal resident organist, a position he has held ever since.  My two featured conversations with Phil on today's Lockdown Listen were recorded at the Tower and at the Paramount Cinema, Penistone, 34 years apart.  It would not surprise me in the least if there's another chat in the next 30 years - I'll get the zimmer frame oiled up ready!

On a previous "from the archives" programme, I have included my conversation with Lowrey USA star JIM VOGELMAN, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.  This earlier conversation took place in May of 2001,  just four months before those tragic events in New York.  Here, Jim chats to me about the popularity of Lowrey organs and there's music from the Lowrey Majesty captured by our microphones at the OKC festival event that year.

One of the most un-nerving interviews I ever did was with one of the nicest guys in the business - the late Graeme Wright.  Listening back to this conversation in 1984, you can tell that I inadvertently caused offence when talking about Farfisa and Bontempi organs.  I don't think he ever forgave me!  Graeme sadly passed away in 2015 and my broadcasting colleague Alan Ashton recorded a special tribute programme on Organ1st Radio (http://organradio.com/archive/) in Show 96 August 2015.  As someone cited on a tribute website: "The guy that taught me to play always maintained Graeme Wright was the best British organist of his generation on the basis of being peerless when it came to making cheap organs sound expensive".  How right he was.

Community Keyboards is a programme featuring all that's best from "the King of Instruments" in all its guises - from the mighty classical and theatre organs to the latest digital home keyboard and virtual technology - plus music and conversation with its local, national and international music-makers.  In this edition, Ian Wolstenholme chats with the legendary jazz star Alan Haven, ITV "Britains Got Talent" finalist Jean Martyn and the longest-serving resident organist at the world-famous Tower Ballroom, Blackpool Wurlitzer organ Phil Kelsall MBE.

Today's Lockdown Listen features a 1986 conversation I had with Devon-based organist Trevor Bolshaw.  Trevor has lived for over thirty years in Devon where he is involved in teaching, recording and playing concerts, either as a soloist or in an accompaniment capacity. He has visited the U.S.A. many times as a soloist performing concerts in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta, Georgia where he has appeared twice at the famous Fox Theatre. He has also played concerts at various venues in Holland.  On the occasion of this archive recording, Trevor was guest organist of the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust at the Oldham Bluecoat School Christie organ.

Today's Lockdown Listen features arguably the man who did more to raise the profile of the organ than anyone, largely thanks to his almost four-decade tenure as host of the national BBC radio programme until its demise in 2018.  Over the years I've chatted several times with Nigel Ogden and, on these three occasions recorded in 1982 at Oldham Bluecoat School, 2003 at a Methodist Church in Oldham and 2018 at Stockport Town Hall just as the news broke that "The Organist Entertains" was coming off-air, if nothing else, it demonstrates how our voices have changed!

For four decades I have been presenting the King of Instruments in all its guises on air and online.  In this entry for the RODE Cast 2020 the voices (apart from my introduction) are: