Ryan Slocum in concert at Court Street Baptist Church on Fathers’ Day

Ryan Slocum in concert at Court Street Baptist Church on Fathers’ Day

AUBURN, ME – Organist/pianist Ryan Slocum will present a concert at Auburn’s Court Street Baptist Church at 6:00 on Fathers’ Day evening. The event will be followed by an ice cream social. A musical star from South Central Maine, Ryan will play the historic E. & G. G. Hook pipe organ and the Mason-Hamlin grand piano, presenting an assortment of classical pieces and several of his own arrangements of familiar hymns, and improvising from tune names suggested by attendees. A University of Southern Maine graduate with a bachelor’s degree in music organ performance, Ryan began taking piano lessons at twelve years of age. He broadened his musical abilities at the Pine Tree Academy in Freeport, at which he played the euphonium (tenor tuba) in the school’s band, rang the English handbells, and began learning to play the organ. As a member of the Academy’s bellringers, Ryan toured throughout Maine and Quebec. In 2021, at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium, he won the top prize in the Kotzschmar Organ Memorial Trust Scholarship Competition. He also has been featured on PBS radio’s “Pipedreams Live.” Ryan is the director of music at the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Oxford, Maine, and also serves as organist at both the Auburn United Methodist Church and the West Auburn Congregational Church. He is the pianist for the Pine Tree Academy choir and frequently accompanies other area choirs, and is employed by Wallace Pipe Organs of Gorham. Kathy Haley, Court Street Baptist’s music minister, who has served as the church’s choir director and organist for more than two decades, will play a couple of duets with Ryan. Kathy’s musical talents have been showcased as singer and rehearsal pianist for the regional choir “Delta Heart”; lead singer with the rock group “Good and Plenty” and the folk group “The Chord Majority; and as member of “The Girls of L-A” vocal band. All are invited to experience the musical stylings of Ryan Slocum and Kathy Haley as part of your Fathers’ Day celebration, topping it off with ice cream sundaes. The Court Street Baptist Church is located at the corner of Court and Pleasant Streets in Auburn.