Our Staff

The CHURCH ORGAN GROUP

 

 

Barry Bouvier

Barry Bouvier is sales consultant for the CHURCH ORGAN GROUP, sales representatives for the Allen Organ Company of Macungie Pennsylvania. He serves the New Orleans area as well as south Louisiana.  Barry is organist, choir director and music minister for St. Cletus Catholic Church in Gretna, Louisiana.  He has been a church organist since his high school years in New Orleans.  He assists several local funeral homes as both organist and vocalist.  Barry has provided the music for over 2000 wedding ceremonies over the years and has often provided music for conventions and  local restaurants.

 

 

Barry is available by calling (504) 454 5157

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E. Ray Peebles


Mr. Peebles serves as organist and music associate at First United Methodist Church, Shreveport, Louisiana. Ray performs weekly on the five-manual, 105-rank Moller organ. He has concertized extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including recitals on the famed Grand Court organ in Wanamaker's Department Store in Philadelphia, the Dupont Estate organ, Longwood Gardens, Westminster Abbey, London, and Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. He has played with the Florida, Memphis and Shreveport Symphony Orchestras. He is presently serving as District Convener of the North Louisiana Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. A skilled choral director, holding a B.A. in Church Music, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia and a Master of Music in Choral and Organ from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, he has served First Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Florida, and Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee as both principal organist and Associate Director of Music and the Arts. His teachers have included Robert Parris, Albert Travis, Michael Corzine, Warren Hutton, and Jean Guillou in organ, and Colleen Kirk and Harold Decker in Choral Conducting.

 

Ray is available by calling (318) 865 9997 or (800) 783 3056. and will be happy to serve your Allen Organ needs in the Ark-La-Tex area.

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Patsy Simpson

Patsy Simpson is the Central Mississippi sales consultant for the New Orleans based CHURCH ORGAN GROUP.  Her experience in church work, especially with keyboards, makes her particularly able to be of service to guide organ committees on their quest for a new instrument. Patsy is a resident of Madison, Mississippi. add has served at Woodland Hills Baptist Church as organist, and Christ United Methodist as Music Associate. She is available to sub for area church organists.  Patsy and her husband, Don, have 2 daughters, Catherine and Melissa. She holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Mississippi College in Clinton where she studied organ with Billy Trotter. She is past President of the Music Forum of Jackson and teaches private piano and organ. Patsy has been with the Church Organ Group for many years.  Among Patsy's most recent installations are Morrison Heights Baptist Church, Clinton Mississippi. First Baptist Church Raymond Mississippi and First Baptist Church Madden, Mississippi.

 

Patsy is available by calling (601) 898 8121

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Joey Lindsay

 

Joey Lindsay is sales consultant for the CHURCH ORGAN GROUP, sales representative for the Allen Organ Company of Macungie Pennsylvania.  He serves the Central Louisiana area including Alexandria, Natchitoches, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, and Lake Charles area.  Joey is presently in residence and an organ major at North Western University in Natchitoches, louisiana.  He is also on the music staff of Noel United Methodist Church, Shreveport.  He has been a church organist and professional singer since his high school years in Longview, Texas.  He is a member of the American Guild of Organist, American Choral Directors Association, and Texas Educators Music Association.

 

 

Joey is available by calling (903) 746-6641 or 1-800-783-3056

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Service Personnel 

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Kent Ganucheau

Kent Ganucheau has been Field Service Technician for The Church Organ Group for 22 years.  His duties include installation, tone regulation and engineering for organ projects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cluis McCarthy

 

 Cluis “Drew” McCarthy has been with the Church Organ Group for 18 years.  His skills as a woodworker has been put to the test during the numerous projects we have done implementing pipe combination organs.  His duties include installations and service backup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Koerber, Jackson, MS

 

Mike Blau, Shreveport

 

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