Returning in May 2025 - Date TBC!
A free day of music and entertainment in Diss Town Centre and Park
Attracting over 50, 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. Unfortunately, due to other commitments, the organisers are not in a position to run the festival in May 2024 as originally hoped.
Instead, Jonny Ling, at The Grange Musical Collection, is hosting an Open Day at Palgrave (just 3 miles from Diss) on Sunday, May 12th, 2024 from 1:30pm-5pm, where visitors and enthusiasts alike can listen to a wide selection of instruments in a countryside setting. In addition, resident organist David Ivory 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 accessible facilities for all. They hold regular monthly open days throughout the year. Follow TG Collection on Facebook for details or see thegrangemusicalcollection.com
Please keep following this page for news about the 2025 Diss Organ Festival.
Instead, Jonny Ling, at The Grange Musical Collection, is hosting an Open Day at Palgrave (just 3 miles from Diss) on Sunday, May 12th, 2024 from 1:30pm-5pm, where visitors and enthusiasts alike can listen to a wide selection of instruments in a countryside setting. In addition, resident organist David Ivory 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 accessible facilities for all. They hold regular monthly open days throughout the year. Follow TG Collection on Facebook for details or see thegrangemusicalcollection.com
Please keep following this page for news about the 2025 Diss Organ Festival.
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.