SW Michigan Chapter AGO

05/19/2024

We hope you'll join us for this annual program!

09/11/2023

First chapter meeting for Fall 2023 with officer installation.

05/01/2023

Hymn Festival with Michael Burkhardt.

09/30/2022

TONIGHT! Organist Benjamin LaPrairie kicks off the ‘Sacred Music at the Cathedral’ Series at St. Augustine’s downtown. Take a listen to an interview with the performer, chapter member and cathedral director Dr. Thomas Fielding, and Cara Lieurance from WMUK radio. (Free event with accepted donations).

An interview with Benjamin LaPrairie and Thomas Fielding

09/13/2022

Our first chapter newsletter for the 2022/2023 year. Check out our events listed on page 2! 🎶 🎹

Thank you Carl Doubleday, newsletter editor

09/12/2022

First meeting with picnic, music exchange, and officer installation.

07/08/2022

SWMichigan chapter represented at the AGO national convention in Seattle! (Newly past dean, Dr. Stephen White and councilor, Michael Montgomer)

06/07/2022

Congratulations to all performers at the 34th Annual Bach Around the Block concert!

Pictured L to R: Dr. Mark Wells, Dr. Janet Hill, Michael Montgomery, Caroline Gao, Jackie Stilger, Dr. Stephen White - not pictured: Autumn.

05/02/2022

TONIGHT! We hope you'll join us if you are in the area:

The Southwest Michigan Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will hold a program at 7pm on Monday, May 2 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church (16 E. Van Buren, Battle Creek, MI) -

Brooks Grantier, FAGO, will present “Cornflakes and Cornopeans: The Collaborations, Collusions, and Collisions of Two Great Men: W.K. Kellogg and E.M. Skinner.”

The program will be “portable” – presented in three adjacent sites. We begin (weather permitting) at 7:00 pm near the porch of Mr. Kellogg’s home; then next door to St. Thomas Episcopal Church; and finally across the street to St. Philip Catholic Church. Along the way, Brooks will quote from Mr. Kellogg’s correspondence with the Skinner Company, and we will hear and see two of Battle Creek’s three extant Skinner organs. Katarina Woldt, a Katie Loew Scholarship winner from Calvin College, will briefly play each organ. Thanks to Calvin College professor Rhonda Edgington for helping Katarina prepare.

03/24/2022

The funeral for the Rev. Canon William Spaid (chapter chaplain) will be held at 11:00am on Saturday, April 2, 2022 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo, MI.