About Elizabeth

Elizabeth Harrison in 2009

Elizabeth greets everyone with a smile and is a bubbly, friendly Lancashire lady who has lived on a working dairy farm in Chorley for more than 28 years. Elizabeth now lives with her partner Michael on a small farm in Chipping near Preston in Lancashire. For many years she has travelled all sides of the UK playing for organ and keyboard clubs and has built up an first class reputation for playing high quality 'live' performances without music. In addition, Elizabeth plays regularly for ballroom sequence dancing. She was originally trained in theatre organ style by teacher Jack Winston of Chorley, and this shows in her playing. She has committed hundreds of pieces of music to her memory and often plays all night without any sheet music. She currently uses an ivory Yamaha EL900i organ. Elizabeth also enjoys playing mighty theatre organs and is not afraid to use the instrument to its full potential. It has often been commented that Elizabeth has a unique style and she has excellent musical feeling. Her concerts are performed and presented to a very professional standard and always very humorous. Elizabeth often brings along samples of her life at home on the farm to share with audiences and she has been know to play for a few minutes in large green Wellington boots!

Elizabeth now enjoys facing the audience when performing and it has been noted that she plays for some of the time with her eyes closed!

Elizabeth’s very varied programme includes military marches, big band, orchestral arrangements, novelty tunes and much more. Never a dull moment through out her performances.

Practical

32 Year old Elizabeth is enthusiastic, practical and down to earth. She is a qualified signwriter, graphic designer and gardener. Over the years, Elizabeth has collected advertising memorabilia, in particular the famous flour grader by Homepride, Fred. She runs a collectors club for him. Elizabeth also collects small, compact and vintage tractors and enjoys showing them at local vintage exhibitions.

Elizabeth loves gardening and being outdoors and enjoys having a go at skiing once in a while. 11 years ago, Elizabeth achieved her class 1 heavy-goods licence, something she had always aspired to do, and yes she did pass first time! She drives her partners Scania truck and loves every minute of it. Christmas 2005, Elizabeth passed her PCV coach driving test and is now a qualified professional coach driver although she only intends to use the licence every now and then.

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