Party and Pipes at Rahway Seniors – June 4th
Author: Bernie Anderson
Pies and Pipes at Rahway Senior Center – May 7th
April Business Membership Meeting and Open Console
Join us for our April Business Meeting and Open Console on the 3/10 Rainbow Room Wurlitzer. Rahway Senior Citizens Center, 1306 Esterbrook Avenue,Rahway, N.J. Members Only Event.
First Thursday Concert – Pizza and Pipes – Rahway Senior Center – April 2nd, 12:30PM
First Thursday Concert – Pizza and Pipes – Rahway Senior Center – March 5th, 12:30PM
February Business Meeting and Open Console
BUDGET RATIFICATION MEETING AND OPEN CONSOLE
Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Rahway Senior Citizens’ Center 1306 Esterbrook Avenue Rahway, NJ 07065
As always, refreshments will be served.
December Holiday Party
Please see your special December edition of Pedals and Pipes for location and reservation details.
The party will last until everyone is exhausted and leaves. Lunch and dessert will be offered at a cost of $10 per person. If you wish to bring any snacks in addition, it would be welcomed.
Please RSVP by December 6th for the Hospitality Committee to prepare for the event.
Rahway Senior Center – Juan Cardona, Jr – Dec 2025
Rahway Senior Center
First Thursday Concert
Date/Time December 4th, 2025 @ 2:00pm
Place Rahway Senior Center, 1306 Esterbrook Avenue, Rahway, NJ
Instrument 3/10 Rainbow Room Organ
This is a free concert provided by GSTOS – Juan Cardona, Jr.
Juan Cardona, Jr. hails from Newtown, Connecticut. He began studying piano and organ at the age of seven and has continued his musical training through college, majoring in classical organ. He studied classical organ with Angela Salcedo at the University of Connecticut. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, majoring in classical organ.
In addition to his studies, he trained and refined his Theatre Organ skills with Jelani Eddington. Juan has been the House Organist for the Thomaston Opera House and for the Bardavon Opera House for over twenty-plus years. Along with his duties as the Organist for two theatres, Juan is also invited by chapters of the American Theatre Organ Society to perform concerts around the country on some of the greatest theatre pipe organs playing today. Juan has had the distinct honor in December of 2017 to open for the Boston Pops and in 2019 opened for the Russian National Ballet’s tour at the Hanover Theatre in Worcester, MA.
He has also had distinct honor of performing at Woolsey Hall as guest organist with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Skitch Henderson with vocalists Laurie Gayle Stephenson and Keith Buterbaugh from Broadway’s “Phantom of the Opera”. Juan has also had the honor of opening for 50’s and 60’s pop star Neil Sedaka. He opened and played with Tito Puente at one of his last performances. Other guest artists have been Coloratura Soprano Nina Cathey and Broadway actress and former Miss Vermont Michelle Dawson.
Juan began doing silent film work by accompanying silent cartoons, at a stage production of “School House Rock” at the Thomaston Opera House. He accompanied the Academy Award winning film “Wings” as his first full-length feature film.
Juan has been the featured artist for five years for the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society in their “Silents in the House” Film series. The list of films he has accompanied has grown to over thirty silents, short comedies, and full- length features. Juan has recently become a regular at the Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, RI, for their Halloween Silent Film series and recently collaborated with Silent Film organist Christian Elliot on his score for the film “Nosferatu”. Juan’s latest silent film project with the Bardavon Opera House was performing the 1970’s Mel Brooks “Silent Movie” giving the 1920’s Theatre Pipe Organ an updated silent movie to accompany.
Some of his other hobbies include building and flying radio control model airplanes and cooking.
He is currently working as a Wireless Network Engineer and Wireless Architect in the Information Technology field.
Directions: From the south: Take the Garden State Parkway to exit 135 (Clark and Rahway),
stay right and turn onto Brandt Avenue. Follow directions below from *. From the north: Take
the Garden State Parkway to exit 135 (Clark and Rahway), turn left under the Parkway, and exit
at the first right onto Brant Avenue. *Continue on Brant until it ends and turn left at the traffic
light onto Westfield Ave. Follow Westfield for three traffic lights. (The road changes name at St.
Georges Ave. to West Grand Ave.) At the third light, turn right onto Irving Street. Go two blocks
and turn right onto Central Avenue. (You will see the Union County Arts Center on the left
corner as you turn.) Go two blocks on Central and turn left onto Esterbrook, The Senior Center is
two blocks ahead on your right. Park in the free lot behind the center, or on the street.
Business Meeting and Open Console
BUSINESS MEETING, OPEN CONSOLE AND SO MUCH MORE…Saturday, Nov. 8th
NEW JERSEY STATE
MUSEUM
At 10am, we are going to meet at the New Jersey State Museum, a small gem in the middle of downtown Trenton. Free parking is available on weekends in lots adjacent to the Museum and on the street in front of the Museum. Around 1pm we will head to the War Memorial, park our cars and walk over to the 1911 Smokehouse BBQ to eat lunch.
1911 SMOKE HOUSE
Featuring the best BBQ New Jersey has to offer
11 W. Front Street Trenton, NJ
BUSINESS MEETING & OPEN CONSOLE
at the 3/16 Möller
Saturday, Nov. 8th, 3pm
Trenton War Memorial 1 Memorial Drive Trenton, NJ
Please see newsletter for more details.
Ed Alstrom at Rahway Seniors
