Organ & Choral Music Concert

Sunday, August 3, 2025, 6:00 pm until 8:30 pm
Shelburne Congregational Church, 22 Church, Shelburne Falls, MA 01370

Organ and Choral Benefit Concert - Join the members and volunteers of the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum on the evening of Sunday August 3rd at 6:00 pm as several talented local musicians, including Museum volunteers and friends present an organ and choral benefit concert at the First Congregational Church of Shelburne. Free-will donations will be accepted to benefit the Museum’s ongoing projects, including the restoration of the “Berkshire Hills Parlor Car”, and the MBTA line car #3283

The performers will include:

The Organ Historical Society’s 2019 - 2022 E Power Biggs Scholar SARAH SCHIENER-REDENZ, organist at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Avon Connecticut

WAYNE DIXON, Minister of Music at Faith Congregational Church, Hartford, CT.

THE BILL BECKHAM SINGERS, a men’s choir that originated with the Men’s ministry at Faith Congregational Church in Hartford

EUSTACE BENJAMIN STRAKER, a member of the BBS is also an organist /Adult Choirmaster at Bloomfield Congregational Church in Bloomfield where he is currently the Minister of Music

Restoration Projects in progress at the SF Trolley Museum:

MBTA Line Repair Car 3283 is the youngest U.S.-built wooden trolley still in existence. The museum has received a Massachusetts Cultural Council's Cultural Facilities Fund matching grant for $33,000! Every dollar raised up to $33,000 is matched by this fund, paid for with proceeds from state hotel and lodging taxes.

According to the website PreservedNorth American Electric Railway Cars, out of the hundreds of trolley cars to have run in Western Massachusetts (west of Worcester), five survive. One is the SFTM Number 10. Another is the "Berkshire Hills", parlor trolley car which arrived at SFTM.