Welcome to:
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 Home Organ Society has continued to provide monthly concerts of top quality popular music featuring the best professional keyboard musicians from all aspects of the regional entertainment sector.
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Do You Love:
Then you will really enjoy the North Suburban Home Organ Society's monthly concerts and events
Click on this picture of the North Suburban Organ Society's X66 Hammond Organ for a detailed description of this fabulous instrument 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!
Pres
& entertainment director Eric C. Larson
Vice Pres James M. Gregory
Treasurer Edward Surette
Secretary Elizabeth Larson
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Above. A typical setup for an NSHOS concert
SITE MAP Find your way easily about the NSHOS website! See what else we have in our web pages including a number of sound clips
Join Us!
Membership in the NSHOS is $20.00 per year and includes admission to all of our monthly meetings (12 per year) and also to our special feature concerts such as the Ken Griffin event listed below.
Visit Us!
Like to visit the NSHOS? We'd love to have you visit. Our monthly meetings and concerts are, at just $3.00, one of the best entertainment bargains around. Our special event concerts are still, at $10.00 per person also an excellent bargain, but by joining our group, you can attend all of our programs at no additional cost. Like more information? just CLICK HERE for a handy form where you can give us your contact information and ask specific questions about our monthly events.
NEXT MEETING AND CONCERT SUNDAY, September 28th @ 1:30 PM
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 several special events for our new concert series
which begins in September. 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!
A NEW MILESTONE FOR THE NSHOS!
On July 20th, We hosted the seventh annual KEN GRIFFIN Celebration!
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 annual celebrations
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 members. We were pleased
once again to be the hosts of this year's Annual Ken Griffin celebration,
which was the main feature of our July event.
For the electronic organ 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.
Read more about these Ken Griffin Events
If you like the theater pipe organ, then you need to check out these folks:
The Historical Recording Company
The historical recording company features CDs of some of the greatest artists playing the finest theater organs. Many of these are special recordings featuring artists who are no longer with us, such as Tom Hazleton. Some are played on instruments which no longer exist. This company also offers excellent recordings of band instruments, orchestrions and other automatic musical instruments. Some of their recordings are from special privately held concerts and represent the only opportunity to hear these instruments. We urge you to visit The Historical Recording Company website where you can listen to sound clips of some of their recordings and also you can order recordings on-line and pay via your credit card. CD orders are shipped within ten to fourteen days of your order.
