About Bradford Organists' Association
Founded in 1910 (registered charity 700225)
The Association serves a wide area with Bradford as the centre, and meetings are held throughout the surrounding districts.
BOA is affiliated to the national organisation, the Incorporated Association of Organists (IAO)
As you can see from our Welcome page, we are a friendly musical fellowship, open to all, with a particular interest in the classical pipe organ but with meetings covering a wide range of topics, almost all with a musical flavour. Our membership encompasses all ages, abilities, interests and religious affiliations - so you are sure to meet interesting people at our meetings!
We give every encouragement to those wanting to learn the organ, grants may be available for young organists - please contact the Secretary.
In recent years, we have had whole-day excursions to the Cathedrals of Lincoln, Southwell, Beverley, Newcastle, Carlisle, Liverpool, Manchester and Kendal, the organs of East Lancashire, York in 2005, Carlisle and Appleby in 2006 - by train! - and Chesterfield and Buxton in 2007. We also have "mini-trips" - contact the Sec. for details.
Our programme is wide ranging, with monthly meetings, and includes organ recitals, musical concerts of all sorts, lectures, master classes, "organ crawls" (if you don't know what that is, come and find out!), socials (we are probably the only Organists' Association to have been graced by the City's former Lord Mayor singing "She wears red feathers and a huli-huli skirt..."!), and so on. Recently, Terry Shires and David Wood made and voiced a pipe "from scratch" for us at one of our meetings - fascinating.
Through our Newsletter, we keep you in touch with organ-related activities in the area, reports of meetings, and other events of musical interest.
A WARM WELCOME AWAITS YOU! If you want to find out more, come to the next meeting, or contact the Secretary.