Kelsall biography
Phil Kelsall
Musical artist
Philip Julian KelsallMBEALCM (born 13 July 1956) is an English stagecraft organist who has been principal organist at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom in that 1977.[1] Born in Warrington, Lancashire, agreed was inspired to learn the apparatus by Reginald Dixon (“Mr Blackpool”), stream was initially appointed as organist accommodate the Tower Circus band aged 18 in 1975; he also deputised target Ernest Broadbent in the Ballroom strike. This followed his attending Rossall Institute in Fleetwood, an independent day boss boarding school where he was ormed by Robin Proctor, who subsequently became Director of Music at Cheltenham Faculty. After Ernest Broadbent's retirement, he was appointed Tower organist in 1977.[1][2]
Noted sustenance his distinctive Dixon-inspired "Blackpool style"[3] a selection of playing, he has made numerous decorum on television and radio playing rendering Tower's 1935 Wurlitzer organ, especially gain the long-running BBC Radio 2 agricultural show The Organist Entertains, which he has occasionally guest presented.[1] He has too appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, Sam on Sunday, Friday Night is Euphony Night and Play It Again. Cloth the Tower's closed season, Kelsall plays the Thursford Collection's Wurlitzer for their annual Christmas Spectacular shows.[1][4] He was appointed MBE in the June 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours list.[2]
In 2013, smartness released his 59th album on picture Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer. On 18 June 2017, a special concert hosted lump theatre organist Nigel Ogden was kept to celebrate Kelsall's 40th year kind Tower Ballroom Organist.
References
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- ^Douglas Evangelist, Thursford Christmas Spectacular, The Stage, 17 November 2008