The Best Of Times Is Now

Circus Renz

Zuider Zee, After the Ball, Dolly Grey

Woman in love

Aquarius

My Life

I am what I am

Frank and Pat Lythgoe and Daughters' beautiful 98-key Marenghi plays its socks off at Astle Park Traction Engine Rally, 2025, following a recent overhaul.  Hear this 1904 Parisien gem, which spent its working life on the fairgrounds of Great Britiain.  The organ has been in the ownership of the Lythgoe family since 1976, and the recent work stands as a tribute to Frank, who sadly passed away recently.   Enjoy the warmth of the sound and let your mind flow as you listen.  

Frank and Pat Lythgoe and Daughters' 98-key Marenghi, Astle Park, August 2025

Trueman 21 keyless - Delilah, Frosty the Snowman and Rose Marie

Barnaby and Kathleen Newton's 89 key fairground organ plays the well known "Consider yourself one of us" from Lional Bart's famous musical, Oliver.  Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2015

Consider Yourself

"Entry of the Gladiators" the traditional fairground opening book, opens our Friday evening concert in Style, at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2015

Entry Of The Gladiators

Barnaby and Kathleen Newton's 89 key Marenghi replica plays "Widor's Toccata" at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2015

13 Widor's Toccata

The Old Rugged Cross.  Barnaby and Kathleen Newton's 89 key organ plays hymns and classical music on Sunday morning at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. 

The Old Rugged Cross

Barnaby and Kathleen Newton's 89 key Marenghi replica at Great Dorset Steam Fair 2015 playing the well known hymn "Sing Hosanna to the King" Great Dorset Steam Fair, Sunday morning hymns

10 Sing Hosanna To The King!

All Things Bright and Beautiful, played on the magnicent 89 key organ of Barnaby and Kathleen Newton. 

All Things Bright And Beautiful,

Composed and arranged to celebrate Andrew's 40th birthday, the March was a present from his wife Joan. Played here on Barnaby and Kathleen Newton's immaculate 89 key Marenghi replica organ, which would not have come to life without Andrew's help.

09 The Andrew Whitehead March

Mrs Clara Collins' 98 key Chiappa organ from the Number One Scenic railway plays a favourite of the Late Pat Collins, King of Showmen, Popsey Wopsey.

01 Popsey Wopsey

Meet me tonight in Dreamland, an old Marenghi factory arrangement from the turn of the century played on the wonderful 89 key instrument built with pride from scratch and owned presented for your pleasure by Barnaby and Kathleen Newton and family.  Thanks to a good friend for the loan of the book.  Recording made courtesy of Barnaby Newton, "Stourpaine", 2014.  The photograph shows the organ, and alongside generating electricity, former Swindon based Burrell 3950 "Progress".  Until the late 1930s she was used to haul and light the Gallopers which formed part of "Robert Edwards and Sons Gigantic Fair".  Now lovingly preserved in Hungerford by John and Brenda Newton, she appears regularly alongside the organ.

Dorset 2014 1

meet me tonight in dreamland

The travelling fun-fair is transient, almost intangible, here today, gone tomorrow.  However, even in these "more enlightened" days, music is the soul of the fair.  These recordings will take you back to a less priveliged time, when the pace of life was slower and the arrival of the showpeople was a big event, and the rides were hauled by steam and featured mammoth mechanical organs, the best of which, according to experts, were built in Paris at the turn of the 20th Century.  Enjoy! Remember the amazing surprise of my appearance; think of me when I have gone away.

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