The North Suburban
Home Organ Society

Eastern Massachusetts' Most Progressive Group for Those Who Love the

HAMMOND ORGAN

Its PERFORMANCE and MUSIC

Founded in 1965, The North Suburban Organ Society has continued to provide monthly concerts of top quality popular music featuring the region's best pro-fessional keyboard musicians from all aspects of the regional entertainment sector.

Click on this picture of the North Suburban Organ Society's X66 Hammond Organ for a detailed description of this fabulous in-strument upon which we present our concerts. Being in the same room when this instrument is professionally played is the next best thing to being on stage at Boston's Symphony Hall during a Pops Concert!

     We welcome all who have an interest in popular music to our meetings. The NSHOS is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of interest in American popular music and its production on electronic musical instruments.
     We also have several new artists to introduce and we're planning a "three-for-all" for our spring concert as well which we can promise is going to be a real treat. Be sure to be with us! We have great artists, an excellent modern acoustically superb hall which is easy to get to by car, and a first class instrument for our guest artists to use for their presentations. Check us out!

     In the mid 1950s, Ken Griffin sold over 3.5 million copies on the Columbia recording label, and as such was one of the principal driving forces behind the huge increase in popularity of the electronic organ, a trend which continued for the next twenty-five years. Playing in a deceptively simple yet accurate and artistic manner, he made instrumental hits out of many of the popular songs of that era.
     Beginning in the year 2002, the Ken Griffin Society has held an annual celebration in Chicago of his life, music and contribution to the American popular music scene, as that is where Ken lived, worked and made a number of his famous Columbia recordings. Last year, we of the North Suburban Home Organ Society hosted the event as the main feature of our October meeting.
     For our club, the Ken Griffin event was a great success, not only helping us to meet our monthly expenses, but also introducing many people to us, folks who decided they wanted to be a part of our monthly events and became mambers. We are pleased, once again, to be the hosts of the next Annual Ken Griffin event, which we are offering in July this year.
     For the electronic music scene, Ken Griffin was the superstar of the century. No other organist has yet to surpass Ken Griffin's record sales, and his stardom catapulted him into radio appearances, his own TV series and playing engagements in many of the best nightclubs throughout the country.

Remember this Date - July 20th, 2008 for the seventh annual KEN GRIFFIN Celebration

Read more about the Ken Griffin Event

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