THE ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF THE ORGAN

Despite the external temptations of superb weather, despite Mother's Day which prevented several families from joining an event that was unfortunately impossible to organize on another date, it was in a very full church that the restoration of our magnificent organ was celebrated: what sonic power, what variety of stops! A program carefully designed by Jan Van Mol, more than half of the pieces being sung by soprano Sarah Van Mol.
The cameras of France 3 were there to complete the shots of a whole report devoted to the rather extraordinary history of this instrument, which turns out to be exceptional in many respects. Many personalities involved in the project and thanked by the mayor were present: the curator of Historic Monuments Anita Oger-Leurent (DRAC Amiens), Jean-Michel Verneiges, director of ADAMA and of the annual Festival of Saint-Michel, for which he is the founder, Christian Lutz, expert organologist in charge of the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris, the president of the departmental council Nicolas Fricoteaux, many mayors friends and neighbors, including the president of our community of communes Jean-Jacques Thomas. And we also had the pleasure of welcoming Kit Armstrong, who himself presented the traditional bouquet to Sarah Van Mol, alongside her father and to applause.
It's a start, a very good start! 
And before the musical part begins, the former treasurer of the association Ginette Bonnet and the new treasurer Yannick Noé were not too many to give the mayor a gigantic check for 10,000 euros: the association's participation in this restoration, using the funds collected fifty years ago, and since then, during concerts organized for the final restoration of the instrument...