Britain's largest organ concerts website - click here to advertise your recitals... for free!
www.organrecitals.com
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How much does it cost to advertise concerts on organrecitals.com?
There's no financial charge but your website (if you have one), concert publicity, and recital programmes must mention this site, e.g. "For future local and national concerts, see www.organrecitals.com" (if you'd like an organrecitals.com logo for your website, click here). Also, you should report any cancelled recitals or revisions to concerts already listed. Your attention is drawn to the few Terms and Conditions near the bottom of this page and please note that only recitals in mainland Britain (i.e. England, Scotland, Wales) will be listed.
How do I submit concert details to organrecitals.com?
Simply send an e-mail to webmaster@organrecitals.com - include attachments (e.g. pdf files, Word documents) or links to webpages, if you wish, but please ensure the details listed in the box below are provided somewhere. To save yourself time and effort, you may want to check if the concert is already listed - someone else may have submitted it. To do this, (a) consult the Index of Venues, (b) click on the place concerned, if present, and (c) check if the concert is included.
Required information for all submissions:
The name of the venue.
Contact details (e-mail address and/or 'phone number) to be published - for inquiries about recitals at this venue.

Provide these four pieces of information if the venue has not appeared previously on organrecitals.com - for a list
of venues that have appeared on the site, click here (opens in a new window and takes a few moments to load).
1.The venue's website address.
2.The venue's postal address - including county and (most importantly) postcode.
3.Details of local train stations, bus services, parking arrangements, etc.
4.The recital pattern (e.g. weekly, monthly), if there is one.

Details of each recital should include:
Day and date. Time (from-to). Admission prices (e.g. full, concessions). Organist's name and location
(e.g. "Stephen Disley, Southwark Cathedral", "Jane Parker-Smith, Concert Organist").

Note: You may be asked to provide the organ's stop list and/or a photograph of the venue's exterior.
Why advertise on organrecitals.com?
• organrecitals.com is the internet's number one organ concerts website. Type "organ recital" or "organ recitals" into a search engine (e.g. google or yahoo or bing) and you'll be presented with a list which, in total, runs to hundreds of thousands of webpages that include those words. Guess which site is at the top of that list? Since 2005, organrecitals.com has listed 13,954 concerts by 2,191 organists at 806 venues. The site gets a daily average of 1,400 "hits" - adding-up to over half-a-million pages viewed annually.
A typical month's "web stats" for organrecitals.com - numbers indicate pages viewed each day.
• organrecitals.com lists each concert on up to 13 pages. For example: A recital by Ian Tracey at Liverpool Cathedral on Monday 25/May/09 will appear on [1] the Ian Tracey page, [2] the Liverpool Cathedral page, [3] the May 2009 page, [4] the May 25th page, [5] the Monday page, [6] the Liverpool page, [7] the Merseyside page, [8] the North West Region page, and [9] the England page. It will also appear, when appropriate, on [10] the This Month page, [11] the Next 7 Days page, [12] the Tomorrow page, and [13] the Today page.
• organrecitals.com is comprehensive and always up-to-date. Concerts are removed from view shortly after their scheduled start time. Each recital's information includes details of the organ being played and a map showing the venue's location. There's also a large text version (for the visually impaired and for screen readers) and a mobile section (for on-the-move browsing on web-enabled phones). A printable version of each page is also available. You can send any concert's details to someone else and, if you wish, sign-up to receive weekly concert bulletins via e-mail.
• organrecitals.com is rated as "Safe" by Norton Safe Web. This means it has no computer threats, no identity threats, and no annoyance factors. To see the full report, click here (opens in a new window).
Terms and Conditions:
1.Submissions with information omitted (e.g. admission price) or containing details "to be announced" will be listed at the webmaster's discretion.
2.Concerts featuring choirs or other musicians/instruments will be listed at the webmaster's discretion, and only if the concert includes some organ solos.
3.Master Classes and similar events will not be listed.
4.The webmaster may reject any concert(s) submitted for listing.
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About the owner/webmaster: Stephen D. Smith maintains organrecitals.com - which gets over half-a-million "hits" annually - with technical advice and support from Stephen Walmsley and Calum Mackay [more info]. He has served as President of the Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society [www.acchos.org] for 12 years and, in 2008, was appointed lifetime Honorary Curator of the building's two organs - one of which is the world's largest, having 449 ranks and 33,000-plus pipes [stop list]. His two published books about this colossal instrument run to more than 600 pages [more info] and he has written numerous articles about it for various periodicals and websites.