Celebrate the organ – OrganFest 2016 opens in Edinburgh in October

The Henry Willis organ at St Stephen's Church, Stockbridge /image courtesy NPOR OrganFest, the annual weekend celebration of the organ, moves north this year.  After two years in the Midlands, it will be held in Scotland's capital city,  from Friday 28th to Sunday 30th October. St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh's Royal Mile will host the opening celebrity recital, by Ullrich Bohme, of St Thomas' Church, Leipzig.  On Saturday John Kitchen will be demonstrating the remarkably unaltered Henry Willis 1880 3/32 organ at St Stephen's Church, Stockbridge, followed by a concert that afternoon with the Kellie Consort…