Silent Movie with Live Organ Music

St. Luke’s Church is showing the original 1927 silent film The Cat and Canary, with a live performance by organist Jeff Howey on a 1920 Austin pipe organ on Saturday, October 27th at 7pm at the church (915 Main Street, South Glastonbury). Tickets for the show can be purchased at the door: $10 adults, $7 students/seniors and a non-perishable donation to the town food bank. A portion of the proceeds will go to support Adama’s Dream - a school that St. Luke’s helped to build in a remote village in Sierra Leone, providing an education for 100 children.

The plot revolves around the death of Cyrus West, who is Annabelle, Charlie, and Paul's uncle, and the reading of his will 20 years later. Annabelle inherits her uncle's fortune, but when she and her family spend the night in his haunted mansion they are stalked by a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, a lunatic known as "the Cat" escapes from an asylum and hides in the mansion.

Accentuating the eerie plot will be a live pipe organ performance by Jeff Howey. A graduate of Hartt College of Music, Jeff has been teaching and creating music since 1972. He has taught in schools and is retired from Hamden Hall Country Day School after 25 years. Jeff has been mesmerizing audiences at St. Luke’s with this annual event for the past 8 years.

At intermission, delicious home-made treats will be available and donations will benefit the school. The church is handicapped accessible. Please call ahead and let us know ahead of time so we can be more helpful. For more information about the show, contact Patti Cole at (860)633-5057 or pattisivocole@gmail.com.