1999 Theatre Organ Workshop Featured Artists...
Patti Simon and Dick Kroeckel
Patti Simon and Dick Kroeckel will treat us to a program of piano and organ duets.

Patti Simon was staff organist for the Denver Organ Grinder Restaurant, as well as Pizza and Pipes Restaurants in Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue Washington, and the Organ Stop Restaurants in Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona. She is staff organist for the Denver Paramount Theatre. Her concert engagements have included the Senate Theater in Detroit, the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Lafayette IN, the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville PA, Century II Exhibition Hall in Wichita KS, the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara CA, the Auditorium Theater and Eisenhardt Auditorium in Rochester NY, and the Elsinore Theatre in Salem OR.

Dick Kroeckel is a popular Colorado piano entertainer who has enlivened lounges such as the Red Slipper Room in Denver's Cherry Creek Inn (a ten year engagement), the Strater Hotel's Diamond Belle Saloon in Durango, the Glory Hole Saloon in Central City, the Phoenix House in Cripple Creek, and Deadwood SD. He is currently performing at Harvey's Casino in Central City CO.

Patti and Dick have been featured at both National and Regional American Theater Organ Society Conventions and in addition to their own solo recordings have made one recording together.