Today's Lockdown Listen is an opportunity to hear again my conversation with "Lovely Lady" Miss Frieda Hall.  The "Queen of the Keys" (version 1!) appeared towards the end of her musical career at the Paramount Organ Studios in Darcy Lever, Bolton, Lancashire.  I sat down for a chat with, quite possibly, the "poshest" guest ever to appear on the show!

At the OKC Festival in Blackpool in September 1999, organist John Walker was at the height of his career, determined to make his "digital orchestra" as popular as possible to even the non-keyboard enthusiast.  It was not long after this interview with John that he starred in a ground-breaking full length TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dK1Cvpbv58

Today's Lockdown Listen guest is popular organist Matthew Bason.  A chance to hear the Conn organ in the Rex Cinema in Elland, North Yorkshire which has been the subject of several TV documentaries such as https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-0wuHGznbiAeXVKRFVpLVlEQUE/view?fbclid=IwAR27dZ4_fb3Ck-TXkiiekgh9E2I9c06Pm94PCtCfBb1Naks5qP6CknSSFxg

Matthew chats to me about his interest in music from a KEYView programme first broadcast in 2000.

Today's Lockdown Listen features music and conversation from one of the country's most popular artists Howard Beaumont.  I caught up with Howard in 2018 at the Astoria Centre in Barnsley.

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.

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Today's Lockdown Listen features a chat I had with the late "Bolton's Happy Wanderer" Ronald Curtis and Iain Flitcroft who, together with Trevor Daniels agreed to play a special concert which I was asked to compere at Wigan's Mill at The Pier in 1987.

Way back in 1984 I joined the crowds (literally) of enthusiasts who could often be found attending one of the many "dealer demonstration" events held up and down the country in "posh" hotels.  On this occasion, the company was Technics and the artist - the one and only "clown prince" of the organ world TONY PEGLER, who joined me on what was a series called "Sounds Organised" on the Radio Cavell Oldham Hospital network.  The recording was mostly unedited, recorded very late in the evening after one such successful demonstration of Technics organs.  Enjoy the second part of the chat!

Way back in 1984 I joined the crowds (literally) of enthusiasts who could often be found attending one of the many "dealer demonstration" events held up and down the country in "posh" hotels.  On this occasion, the company was Technics and the artist - the one and only "clown prince" of the organ world TONY PEGLER, who joined me on what was a series called "Sounds Organised" on the Radio Cavell Oldham Hospital network.  The recording was mostly unedited, recorded very late in the evening after one such successful demonstration of Technics organs.  Enjoy!

This edition of Lockdown Listen is a chance to hear part of "Sounds Organised", Radio Cavell 1350AM, from 1987 featuring BRYAN RODWELL AND THE SOUND OF BRASS, plus my conversation with "the Guv'nor" at Stockport's Davenport Cinema.