AND GIGS!!
ED COMPETES IN THE IBC AGAIN!
The North Jersey Blues Society presents its Annual Blues Competition on Sunday, April 27, 2025 at The Stanhope House. This event will showcase the talents of local musicians in two categories: Band and Solo/Duo (Ed is in the latter category). The winners in each category will compete worldwide at the INternational Bluess Challenge in Memphis next January.
Doors open at noon and the event runs until 6pm.
ED IS ON AT 5:25pm.
Tix are $10 at the NJBS website or the door. NJBS website HERE.
Despite the success of Ed's current album, he will not be playing any of the material off that album at the competetion! It'll be all new material that will be on Ed's next album in late 2025.
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ED ALSTROM and THE TRUTH
Ed Alstrom (Organ/Vocals), Robert Hill (Guitar) and Frank Pagano (Drums)
Saturday, April 26, 7:30 ~ 9:30pm - $5 cover, goes to the musicians.
MONTCLAIR BREWERY, 101 WALNUT STREET
MONTCLAIR, NJ 07042
(973) 850-0541 -montclairbrewery.com
We'll be playing most of the new album, FLEE THOUGH NONE PURSUE, at this cool and casual brewery with unique and tough beers.
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ED SOLO at SUSHI CAFE
Thursday, May 29, 6-8pm (I'm not there in April)
555 Passaic Ave, West Caldwell, NJ
(973) 403-7720
www.sushicafewestcaldwell.com
Ed plays/sings all kinds of stuff solo at this lovely Sushi restaurant. Great Japanese food of all types. BYOBs. NO cover!
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The John McDermott Band - Sixties Rock & Roll Revue
FRIDAY, MAY 2, doors at 8p
Playing the best of the Beatles, Stones, Doors, Who, Van Morrison, Yardbirds, Zombies, Santata, The Band, Joe Cocker and more!
TIERNEY'S TAVERN, 136-138 Valley Road., Montclair, NJ
https://www.tierneystavern.com/
Ed plays keys and sings in the 60s R&R free-for-all, with a lot of talented people doing a lot of great songs, in a classic Irish pub with great Guiness!
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PRESENTATIONS!
YANKEE BASEBALL: FROM THE (ORGAN) BENCH
with Ed Alstrom
UPCOMING/RECENT PRESENTATIONS (All presentations are at the town libraries unless otherwise indicated and are free of charge. Go to the library's/venue's website for more details/registration):
Totowa, NJ - Tue 3/11/25 615p
Wayne, NJ - Wed 3/12/25, 1230p
Mendham, NJ - Wed 3/19, 630p
Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ (St. Bartholomew's Church) - Su 3/23, 3p
Northvale, NJ - Tu 3/25, 630p
Wallington, NJ - Wed 3/26, 630p
North Haledon, NJ - Tu 4/15/25, 130a
Cliffside Pk, NJ - Sat 4/19, 2p
Wyckoff, NJ - Wed 4/23, 7p
Waldwick, NJ - Wed 4/30, 7p
Lavalette, NJ - Tue 7/8, 7p
Raritan, NJ - Tue 7/29, 6p
Nanuet, NY - Thu 8/7, 7p
Ramsey, NJ - Sun 8/17. 2p - 'Sounds of the Season' Organ Concert
Ed Alstrom will start his 22nd season as the Organist at Yankee Stadium. In this breezy and fun hour-long presentation, he talks about that job, demonstrate how it gets done, and tells stories about his fabulous experiences at the Stadium!
Several presentation are scheduled for 2025 already, details coming soon. And there will be other presentations available as well, details coming soon.
Like to have this at your library or other venue? Drop me an email and we'll talk!
ed@edalstrom.com
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ED ALSTROM
at the RAINBOW ROOM WURLITZER THEATER ORGAN
'IT WAS 60 YEARS AGO TODAY - THE HITS OF 1964'
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2:00 p.m.
RAHWAY SENIOR CENTER
1306 Esterbrook Avenue, Rahway, NJ - 732-827-2016
YOU CAN HERE IT ALL HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGQqvkV9rc&t=540s
I am always grateful to be back behind the cockpit of the amazing historic instrument! It is quite literally a "Mighty Wurlitzer", and has a sound that defies description, especially if you've never heard one in action. It is a fire-breathing, 3-manual, 10-rank monster of a pipe organ that was originally installed at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in NYC in 1934.
This model R16 is one of only two ever made by the Wurlitzer company (the other was installed at the Ambassador Theater in L.A. in 1929). This organ is in its 4th home at the Rahway Senior Center now, and it is all-original and has been lovingly restored piece by piece by the GARDEN STATE THEATER ORGAN SOCIETY (more info on them and the organ itself at www.gstos.org). I did the inaugural recital on this instrument in 2012.
1964 was an amazing and very diverse year in popular music. It is certainly mosty famous for The Beatles making their entrance onto the world stage, dominating the charts for months, only to be supplanted in the number 1 spot by.... Louis Armstrong singing 'Hello Dolly'!
++++++++++pinstripe alley
