Report by: Brian Waters

Performer: Matthew Bason
Instrument: Technics GN9, Technics Piano and Accordion

' Up and Coming' Organist and Entertainer Matthew Bason visited the Peterborough Post Office Club to present a concert hosted by the Peterborough Organ and Keyboard Club on Thursday Evening the 10th June and provided us with a very pleasant evening, playing a good selection of music performing on Technics GN9 Technics Piano, and also playing on the Accordion.

Only 24 years of age and playing for us for the first time Matthew started his concert with a couple of March's and then a Classical piece' The Swan Carnival Of The Animals by Saint Saens. A 'Moon' melody followed with Organ sounds including ' Fly me to the Moon', 'Blue Moon', and 'Moonlight and Roses' and then a Reginald Dixon selection 'Cheek to Cheek' 'Dancing in the Dark', 'Changing Partners, ' I do like to be beside the Seaside' amongst others.. Matthew mentioned that he was the Resident Organist at Ashorne Hall in Warwickshire playing the Wurlitzer for some time until it closed down recently.
Moving to the Piano for a Very nice Melody including ' What Kind of Fool'and 'Dream of Olwen .' and then back on to the Technics GN9 organ for a ' Latin Melody '.Then followed a big ' Big Band' selection to take us up to the Interval including some Glen Miller favourites.
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In the Second Half Matthew played on the 'Accordion' for us which made a nice change with numbers including' Under the Bridges of Paris' -Tulips from Amsterdam and 'Scotland the Brave,' there are not many Organist on the circuit who play Accordions!! Another nice Piano melody followed with ' Smoke Gets in your Eyes' ' The Very Thought of You 'Charmaine and some other ballads.Then back to the organ for some ' Ivor Novello' Music featuring some Orchestral sounds we had: 'Someday my Heart will Awake' Well Gather lilacs and' Rose of England, and some others. A 'Sing a long' Selection ended the Concert and then Matthew was asked to do another and finished with the 1998 ' World Cup Football Song: 'Nessa Dorma'The audience although small, seemed to enjoy this concert and Matthew came across well to them, and it could well be that Matthew will return to the club for another concert sometime in the future.

Our next concert is with Tim Flint on 8th July 2004 on the Roland AT90 at 7:30 we hope to see you there

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