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Josh Kantor

@jtkantor.bsky.social

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Organist for Boston Red Sox games at Fenway Park. I also do a bunch of other music stuff.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · Apr 3

If you're at a Red Sox home game and you want to send me a song request, this is the best place to do it. If you prefer to send it via Twitter, that's okay. If you prefer to send it via some other means, I may or may not see it in time. Thanks! Let's have an awesome Red Sox season together! ⚾ 🎹

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna read the crap out of Jason's new book this weekend.

Jason Narducy @jasonnarducy.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 2d

a woman sitting in a kitchen with a box of treats in the background

Alt: a woman saying "can confirm"

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 2d

The whole album.

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

One of the best feelings in the world must be to be a baseball organist who’s like fuck it, I’m playing Thriller

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a mustache is making a funny face while wearing a black shirt and a chain around his neck .

Alt: man nods in a confessing manner

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 4d

I'm in the band for this cavalcade of all-stars on Friday. Are you kidding me with this lineup?! Tickets at citywinery.com/boston/event...

A poster for a variety show called "Wesley Stace's Cabinet of Wonders" happening at City Winery in Boston this Friday. Pictured on the poster are Willie Loco Alexander, Tanya Donelly, James Parker, Matthew Caws, Wesley Stace, Dave Hill, Patrick Stickles, and Ryan Walsh.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 8d

For better or worse, yes.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 8d

There's songs I know how to play, ones I'm familiar with & just need a run-thru, ones I'm slightly familiar with & need to listen to figure them out, ones I've never heard & need to listen 2-3 times to learn (which I usually end up forgetting). Duration is 30-120 seconds, so I can cut corners there.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 8d

Some day, I'll realize how foolish this is. Until then, here's another year-end list from New England's biggest & weirdest covers gig.

Screenshot of a list of the 741 songs I played by request this year on the Fenway organ (DM me if you need a text version of the list to be able to read it).

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 10d

The two starting pitchers in tonight's do-or-die Red Sox vs. Yankees playoff game have played a combined 18 Major League games and 12 Triple-A games in their entire careers.

I have no opinion on this, other than I find it fascinating.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 11d

Well, at least I made it to October before the annual reminder that I forgot where my coat is and how to put it on.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 11d

The legendary Dr. Dre achieves his lifelong dream of having one of his most iconic songs in a Goodyear tire commercial. #playoffs

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 11d

Watching Ceddanne Rafaela play centerfield makes me feel like I’m watching Jackie Bradley Junior Junior.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 12d

Breggie makes me preggie.*

*I’m not proud of this post, but I’m pretty drunk right now (on adrenaline and lemonade).

JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 12d

Alex Bregman extends the lead for the Red Sox, 3-1.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 12d

Very thoughtful of MLB to pay tribute during these playoffs to the 200th birthday of Austrian operetta composer Johann Baptist Strauss II, which occurs on the same day as Game 2 of this year’s World Series.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 12d

ESPN is so excited about this Red Sox vs. Yankees playoff series that they just showed a commercial for the Red Sox vs. Yankees playoff series during the first game of the Red Sox vs. Yankees playoff series in the first inning of the Red Sox vs. Yankees playoff series.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 12d

Another September has come and gone without me learning the words to "September."

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 13d

from the last three regular-season games of the year:

A screenshot of a list of Fenway organ song requests played from 9/26/25 thru 9/28/25 (DM me if you need a text version of the list to be able to read it).

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 14d

Closing out the Fenway organ's regular season with The Three Degrees' "When Will I See You Again." #PreciousMoments 🤞

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 14d

#PositiveMentalAttitude

📷 by @jfree36008.bsky.social

I'm on the big screen at Fenway with an optimistic handmade sign that reads "THANK U, SEE U 10/7"

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 14d

Feeling alright about that 6th-inning medley of "Love Will Keep Us Together" into "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 15d

BOS won't know until tomorrow where they open the playoffs, unless: 1) BAL beats NYY today (1:05pm), and 2) TOR beats TBR today (3:07pm), and 3) Either BOS beats DET today (4:10pm) or TEX beats CLE today (7:15pm). In which case BOS will open against NYY.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 16d

I'm still working, Jerry.

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 16d

thank you josh. are you on the field with october baseball shirt and hat and if not why not

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 16d

I take zero credit for tonight's playoff-clinching come-from-behind walk-off victory, but I did put this (clearly) handmade "LET'S RALLY" sign up on the big screen when the Sox were trailing 3-1 in the 7th, and then they scored one in the 7th, one in the 8th, and one in the 9th.

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 16d

If that wasn't one of the three all-time best medleys of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" into Maceo Parker's "Elephant's Foot" into Andrea & Matteo Bocelli's "Fall on Me" into Tomoyasu Hotei's "Battle Without Honor or Humanity," then it's back to the drawing board for me.

Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 16d

Finally, a request that makes some sense.

Kyle S. Gibson @kylesgibson.bsky.social · 16d

@jtkantor.bsky.social since it’s a Friday how about Til Tuesday, Voices Carry