Greater Puget Sound Handbell Conference

Repost from: handbell-l The 2009 Greater Puget Sound Handbell Conference will be held Saturday, May 16 at Green River Community College in Auburn, Washington.  We are pleased to welcome Hart Morris as clinician!  Registration and repertoire information can be found on the AGEHR Area X website – www.area10agehr.org. This one day ringing and learning event [...]

Quilters keep old-time techniques alive

Repost from: Kansas City.com Link to complete story and Photos: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/1091057.html Note: While this is not a story about handbells, I love the last line. By DIANA REESE Special to The Star Every Wednesday with needles and thimbles they gather — up to a dozen women and one man — around a quilt frame in [...]

Back Bay Ringers, Boston’s Community Handbell Ensemble, to Host Kiriku Handbell Ensemble Performance

  back bay ringers po box 990828 boston, ma  02199   PRESS RELEASE   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Griff Gall, Artistic Director Phone: 617-599-8656 Fax: 866-243-9594 E-mail: ggall@backbayringers.org   Back Bay Ringers, Boston’s Community Handbell Ensemble, to Host Kiriku Handbell Ensemble Performance   (Boston, Mass. March 16, 2009)—The Back Bay Ringers, Boston’s leading community-based handbell [...]

Six NMI students win in Guam music fest

Repost from: Saipan Tribune Link to story: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=88461&cat=1 By Moneth Deposa Reporter Six members of the Southern High School Band have been invited to the command performance of the 2nd Tumon Bay Music Festival after winning gold medals earlier this week. The command performance concludes the competition and gathers the previous days’ winners in all [...]

Groups get Westobou Festival money

Repost from: Augusta Chronicle Link to full story: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/03/11/met_514305.shtml Other grants issued included $6,500 to the Greater Augusta Arts Council for a regional act at the Arts in the Heart of Augusta festival; $25,000 to the Augusta Ballet for a nationally known dance company yet to be determined; $10,000 to the Augusta chapter of the [...]

Concert in aid of bell appeal

Repost from: Redditch Advertiser Link to Story: http://www.redditchadvertiser.co.uk/news/4190662.Concert_in_aid_of_bell_appeal/ By Helen Clarke » A POPULAR hand-bell ringing group will be ap-peeling to the audience at a concert in aid of a church bell appeal fund. The Waverton Hand-Bell Ringers will make a guest appearance in concert with the appropriately named chamber choir Belle Voci (BV). The [...]

Virginia Bronze Handbell Ensemble Concert

The Virginia Bronze Handbell Ensemble invites you to “CONTRASTS” An afternoon concert of handbell music featuring contrasting themes, styles & techniques   Sunday, March 29 3 pm Messiah United Methodist Church 6215 Rolling Road Springfield, VA www.messiahumc.org Concert and parking are free; donations always accepted! More info www.vabronze.org

Cleveland Handbell Ring 4/25

Repost from Handbell-l There is still room for more choirs at the Greater Cleveland  Handbell Ring in Kirtland, Ohio, Saturday, April 25.  The conductor will be none other than Handbell-l’s own Stephanie Wiltse!   This year’s event is tailored towards intermediate choirs – the music is easy and accessible.   Email the event organizer, Lynn [...]

Concerts in Greenville, SC, on March 21

Repost from Handbell-l If you live in or near the upstate of SC, please join us for two concerts being presented in Greenville on Saturday, March 21. Both concerts are free and open to the public.   At 5:00 pm is the final massed concert presented by the participants of the SC Spring Festival, under [...]

Openings at Blue Ridge Festival!

Repost from Handbell-l There is still room to sign up for the Blue Ridge Handbell Festival in Flat Rock, NC — and NO increase in registration fee for signing up late!  Come as a group or come as an individual ringer. Lee Afdahl will be the guest conductor/clinician on April 24th-25th at the Bonclarken Conference [...]

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