11th May 2025
A free day of music and entertainment in Diss Town Centre and Park
This popular one-day event, which brings Mechanical Music to the historic town of Diss in Norfolk, is returning on the 11th May 2025. Attracting over forty organ owners and thousands of members of the public to a street and parkland setting, the event relies heavily on the support of Diss Town Council, South Norfolk District Council and numerous local businesses to make it happen.
Save the date and please keep following this page for news about the 2025 Diss Organ Festival.
Save the date and please keep following this page for news about the 2025 Diss Organ Festival.
October event brings Mechanical Music to Suffolk in 2024
The Grange Musical Collection, is hosting an Open Day at Palgrave (just 3 miles from Diss) on Sunday, October 6th, 2024 from 10:30pm-5pm, where visitors and enthusiasts alike can listen to a wide selection of instruments in a countryside setting. In addition, resident organist Tom Horton will give a concert on the 3-manual Wurlitzer Theatre Organ, ex-Granada cinema in Slough. The indoor venue is the largest collection of automatic instruments in the country and has a cafe and accessible facilities for all. They hold regular monthly open days throughout the year. Follow TG Collection on Facebook for details or see thegrangemusicalcollection.com
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The Diss Organ Festival is most grateful to players of the National Lottery and the Heritage Fund for the financial support which made the Festival possible. |
Watch the Diss Organ Festival
Back by popular demand, the largest event of its kind in the UK. The Diss Organ Festival will return to this picturesque Norfolk market town in 2025.
From famous British fairground organs, magnificent mobile concert instruments to beautiful Dutch street organs, the highways and byways of Diss, along with its popular Park, will be alive with the joyful sound of over 50 mechanical music machines. Also musical boxes in the Corn Hall and hand turned instruments in Cobbs Yard.
The Park will have a display of vintage vehicles with veteran traction engines in steam, and the Theatre Organ Club will be staging a nostalgic 1920s silent movie to dramatic organ accompaniment, recreating the early cinema before soundtracks were incorporated in the film.
From famous British fairground organs, magnificent mobile concert instruments to beautiful Dutch street organs, the highways and byways of Diss, along with its popular Park, will be alive with the joyful sound of over 50 mechanical music machines. Also musical boxes in the Corn Hall and hand turned instruments in Cobbs Yard.
The Park will have a display of vintage vehicles with veteran traction engines in steam, and the Theatre Organ Club will be staging a nostalgic 1920s silent movie to dramatic organ accompaniment, recreating the early cinema before soundtracks were incorporated in the film.
