Every Friday22:00 Germany · 21:00 UK
The Friday livestream Free
Ninety minutes to two hours of whatever the Gang throws at the organ. Requests, chat, chaos and the occasional triumph.
Organist · Pianist · Live from Gartshore Gang HQ
The anything-but-
Bach organist.
Rock, pop, jazz and film music on church organs, played live, sight-read when it hurts, and shared every week with the Gartshore Gang.
Next free livestream
Every Friday, 22:00 German time
Germany 22:00UK 21:00New York 4:00 pm
Who is this?
A Scotsman, a church organ, and absolutely no Bach.
Fraser Gartshore is an organist and pianist from Inverness who studied in Edinburgh and has lived in Germany for half a lifetime. The channel began on the road, visiting organs all over Germany to show off their quirks, their party tricks and the occasional stop nobody had pulled in decades.
Then the livestreams took over. Somewhere between a rock anthem on a Romantic organ, a film score in a village church and a fiendish piece sight-read live with nowhere to hide, a community grew up around it: the Gartshore Gang.
Today it's a weekly free stream, hybrid concerts in churches with an audience in the pews and another one online, and a standing promise: any music, any organ, live. Just maybe not the fugue you were thinking of.
What's on
Every week, and once a month something bigger.
Fridays are free, forever. The hybrid concerts are the special nights that keep it that way.
On YouTube
Sunday eveningsWhen sponsored
Sponsored evening concerts Ticket
Sponsor a whole Sunday evening, alone or with friends, and the programme is yours. Supporters get the private stream link.
MonthlyA different church each time
Hybrid concerts Ticket
A live audience in the pews and a ticketed audience online, with a new venue and a new instrument every time. Tickets for the room or the stream.
Hybrid concerts
- Next dateAnnounced in the Friday livestream first.
Formats
What you're letting yourself in for.
No. 1
The Friday livestream
The living room of the channel. Genre-hopping, banter with the chat, and music you didn't expect on an instrument you didn't expect it on.
No. 2
Hybrid concerts
The main event. A real church, a real audience, a better camera or three, and the whole thing streamed to ticket holders wherever they are.
No. 3
Make Fraser Suffer
Sponsor a fiendishly difficult piece from the list and watch Fraser sight-read it live. Jeopardy guaranteed; dignity not.
No. 4
Organ visits
Back to where it started: a tour of a new organ's quirks and features, one thoroughly unorthodox piece, and an improvisation to finish.
No. 5
Jazz and boogie-woogie piano
No pedalboard, no stops, no mercy. The same anything-goes spirit, on a grand piano.
Glossary
New here? A few words you'll hear.
- The Gartshore Gang
- Everyone who turns up, in the chat or in the pews. Membership is free and starts the moment you say hello.
- Gartshore Gang HQ
- The home studio and its digital organ, where the weekly livestreams come from.
- Anything but Bach policy
- Fraser will play nearly anything on an organ. The one thing everyone expects is the one thing he'd rather not.
- Make Fraser Suffer sport
- Viewers sponsor a very hard piece; Fraser sight-reads it live. Everyone enjoys this except Fraser.
- A cuppa noun, British
- A cup of tea, and the unit of support on Buy Me a Coffee. Keeps the organist running.
- TOOOOOBA! stop
- The loudest reed on the organ, pulled with enthusiasm and announced with extra O's.
- Hybrid concert
- One concert, two audiences: people in the church and people watching online with a ticket.
- Hauptwerk
- The virtual pipe organ software behind the HQ console: real organs from around the world, sampled pipe by pipe.
Join the Gang
Pull up a pew.
Watching is free. Supporting keeps the free streams going and the organ in tea.
YouTube
Subscribe
Friday livestreams, concert highlights and organ visits.
Patreon
Become a member
Monthly support, with extras at every level.
Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Fraser a cuppa
One-off support, Sunday sponsorships and Make Fraser Suffer.
Instagram and TikTok are on their way.
Bookings and press
Bring a hybrid concert to your church or concert hall.
Your organ and your local audience, plus a ticketed online audience from around the world, streamed live from your venue.
- Programmes that span film music, rock and pop, jazz and improvisation
- Organ and piano in one evening, if the venue has both
- Full livestream production on site, with online ticketing handled
- Presented in English and German
- An organ-visit film of your instrument to promote the concert
Get in touch
For concert series, venues, brand partnerships and press. Press kit and photos on request.