Wed 08 Sep 2010
Next Event:- 8/9/2010 - 2.00pm at WORTHING
Hello everyone and welcome to my website.
Here you will be able to keep up to date with where I am playing and have a look to see what new CD's and DVD's are available. As well as all the history of my career.
JOHN'S NEW CD
JOHN'S NEW CD 'FOLLY FARM WURLITZER' WAS RELEASED ON MAY 1st to coincide with his concert at Folly Farm,near Tenby, Pembrokeshire on that date. The CD was very much in demand that evening. He recorded it on the Ex Gaumont Manchester Wurlitzer where he gave the highly successful opening concert at Folly Farm in 2009 . The CD will be on sale at his concerts price £5 or by post: click on the 'Contact Me' Page for details. For list of Titles click on 'Discography'
GOOD NEWS!! John has a second new CD 'GET HAPPY' just released ,which he recorded on the Allen Theatre Organ at Henley-on-Thames Town Hall on May 14th. The CD will be on sale at his concerts price £10 or by post: click on the 'Contact Me' Page for details. For list of Titles click on 'Discography'
My SUMMER SEASON SHOWS continue with THE JOHN MANN MUSIC SHOW at EASTBOURNE WINTER GARDEN on the following THURSDAY AFTERNOONS: 19th AUGUST and 16th SEPTEMBER at 2.30pm. all seats £6.50. and SUMMER SEASIDE MELODIES AT WORTHING PAVILION THEATRE every WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON from 2nd JUNE until 15th SEPTEMBER at 2pm. PLEASE NOTE: AUGUST 25th will be transferred to the ASSEMBLY HALL. Seats £4 including a cup of Tea. Season Ticket £19.50 any 6 dates for the price of 5. So start planning your holidays or just day trips as they are all in the afternoon. For details click on 'Tour Date List'.
DATES FOR MY CHRISTMAS SHOWS are already announced: Eastbourne Winter Garden on Wednesday !st December at 2.30pm and Worthing Assembly Hall on Monday 13th December at 2.00pm. You can be sure of two Happy Afternoons with lots of laughter and surprises!! Click on 'Date List' for details.
DOME CONCERT 2009Jill writes: THE BIG EVENT FOR JOHN AND HIS MANY ADMIRERS in 2009 was his special concert on June 21st at The Dome Brighton to celebrate his 70th Birthday. Unbelievable that he is 70 !! With friends there from all parts of this country and abroad it was the most wonderful occasion. The good news is that John will be returning there in 2010 to present another concert on SUNDAY 18TH JULY at 2.30pm.
To return to John's 2009 concert , MARRION WELLS, who reviews many concerts for local newspapers and other periodicals wrote: "Throughout its long history the Dome has played host to a vast selection of artistes, yet it must be a very long time since one was received by an audience of almost two thousand with such acclaim as greeted Bighton's home-grown star performer John Mann.
Adjectives 'auspicious', 'momentous' and their like are irrelevant. More appropriate is 'affection' for assuredly that is how John with his sense of humour oft verging on the absurd was received in a programme of over two hours of one-man activity in which never for one second did the entertainment flag."
FOR MORE REPORTS on John's show click on 'What the Papers Say'.
JOHN WROTE in the special Souvenir Brochure produced for the concert: "WELCOME. What a great pleasure it is for me to be spending this time with you this afternoon, for my special birthday show. It means to me one big birthday present that will remain for the rest of my life. Thank you.
Appearing here at the Dome today in itself is very special. The fact that I spent my youth here week after week attending most times when the organ was playing, and for the very famous "Tuesday night at the Dome" shows. This concert hall holds so many memories for me. I appeared one night playing the Piano solo "The Dream of Olwen", a very nervous young man. Mind you I've always been nervous. I come from a nervous family. If my father hadn't been so nervous, I would be 21 by now...instead I'm still nervous and going on 70!! Couldn't resist that joke. I did sit on the organ bench once on that occasion, but didn't know anything about the instrument at that time. Little did I think that I would be playing the organ as a career as well as working with so many of the Act's and stars that used to appear here.
When the Dome was refurbished and the organ re-installed, under the guidance of Michael Maine, there was a feeling of great excitement, we've got our organ back. But signs of the times are proving that its use is very limited because of maintenance cost which was the cause of it's demise in the first place. Of course, public tastes change and our style of entertainment and music in the business world has been put on the back burner. But here I am still going and keeping the organ music alive and well. There's got to be a medal I hear you say!!"INTERESTING FACTS about The Dome Organ: The organ is a mixture of classical and theatre. It's not a Wurlitzer or Compton but part Christie Organ on the theatre side. John Christie was the owner of Glyndebourne Opera House here in Sussex and his love of organ building was so enthusiastic he joined forces with Hill, Norman & Beard to create the enormous Dome Organ. It took seven years to bring it back to life again.
THE FIRST of the 2010 24th JOHN MANN APPRECIATION SOCIETY ANNUAL TEA PARTIES took place at WORTHING Pavilion Theatre in The Denton Lounge on Wednesday August 4th after John's afternoon show when 65 friends enjoyed a lovely get-together with John. We now look forward to the second Tea Party which will will take place at EASTBOURNE after John's afternoon Show at the Winter Garden on Thursday September 16th in the Congress Restaurant. Always a lovely get-together with John and a chance to meet old and new friends.
TWO DISASTERS have meant that you won't have had the pleasure of me in the London Area, namely at Tooting and at Kilburn. However, the DVD I made at the State,Kilburn, which was a best seller for Valentine Music, is still available. It has shots of the interior also of Sidney Torch and lots of the old variety stars, Gracie Fields, George Formby and many others and of course jolly old me on the Wurlitzer. So to avoid further disappointment why not get JOHN MANN AT THE WURLITZER ORGAN STATE THEATRE KILBURN (With Bonus Material includes a visit to the Burtey Fen Collection) Price £16 post free from: Jill Evans, 19 Baswich Lane, Stafford ST17 OBH. (Cheques made payable to "John Mann"). You know you deserve me!!
MY CD "I LOVE A PIANO" is still proving very popular. On sale at my concerts or by post from Jill Evans, 19 Baswich Lane, Stafford, ST17 OBU. Price: £10 plus £1 p&p. or if you are a Member of my Appreciation Society you will have had a blue voucher with the Spring Magazine giving you £1 off the full price of the CD making it £9 at Concerts or £10 including P&P by post. Please enclose voucher. (Cheques made payable to "John Mann"). For list of Titles click on "Discography"
MY "CELEBRATION" CD recorded to celebrate my 50 Years in Showbusiness and played on the Wurlitzer and Compton Organs at The Burtey Fen Collection, Pinchbeck, Near Spalding, Lincs is now on special offer at £5 at my concerts or by post(add £1 p&p) from Jill Evans (who is almost as busy as I am!) address as above.(Cheques made payable to "John Mann"). For list of Titles click on "Discography"