Below is a link to a video of the Reed Organ Society's fall gathering in Moline, Illinois. Laura and I appear at about 3:40" in the video for a short clip of our performance on the Staanke Pipe Organ in the Butterworth Center.
Laura and I are playing at the Reed Organ Society's Fall Gathering in Moline, Illinois on October 14, 2011. We're playing at the Butterworth Center (http://www.butterworthcenter.com/) on the 3 manual Bennett-Stannke pipe organ. In 1892, Charles Deere built Butterworth Center a block from his own home, Overlook (now Deere-Wiman House), as a wedding gift for his youngest daughter Katherine and her husband William Butterworth. Over the years, the Butterworths tripled the size of their home, which they named Hillcrest. Included in the additions were two unique features. As part of the 1909 addition to the living room, a pipe organ built by the Bennett Organ Company was installed. Later in 1938, Mrs. Butterworth hired the Stannke Organ Company of Rock Island, Illinois, to perform extensive rebuilding and additions. At that time, the organ was probably one of the largest residential organs in the Midwest. A major restoration of the Bennett-Stannke organ was completed in the spring of 2008 and should sound great on our program which will feature a sonata for Flute and Organ by Handel, Boelmann's Gothic Suite, and will have other pieces suggesting a fall theme. 
On Monday, April 18, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. I will be speaking to the Suffield Historical Society on the topic of Thomas Edison, his invention of the phonograph, and his ties to Northeast Ohio. This interactive presentation will feature hands-on demonstrations of early cylinder phonographs, a multimedia presentation, and original recordings of Mr. Edison speaking. The talk will be held in the community room of the new Suffield Fire Station, 1256 Waterloo Road, Suffield, (Mogadore) Ohio. This Event is Free and Open to the Public.
