Playing for Keeps

Unless you are part of a professional performance choir or are enrolled in an academic handbell class, the ringers you are involved with are likely volunteers. Extracurricular handbell choirs provide an excellent opportunity for individuals to learn music, improve...

Royal Success in the Classroom

Teaching Music with Handchimes by Pamela Stumpf Pamela serves Immanuel Lutheran Church (ILC) and School (ILS) in Hamilton, Ohio, as Director of Music, Organist, and Music Teacher, and directs both the church and school handbell choirs: The ILC handbell choir is a...

Joyful Literate Musicians

Handbells as a Mainstream Musical Instrument by Ed Verela Ed Varela lives in Pensacola, Florida, where he earned his B.A. in Church Music in 2005 and his M.A. in Music in 2007 from Pensacola Christian College. He teaches music at Trinitas Christian School, a classical...

A “Light Bulb” Moment

Why My Handbell Ensembles Never Play Anything in 6/8 by Neesa Hart Neesa Hart is the Program Director of the Stafford Regional Handbell Society in Stafford, Virginia. The Concert Group has a large, graded program for children and adults. She is also the co-creator of...

Stick Around and Ring

Music Teacher Starts an After School Handbell Club by Elizabeth Curtis Elizabeth Curtiss is a general music teacher in the Fort Zumwalt School District in St. Charles County, Missouri, and sings regularly and rings occasionally at Eliot Unitarian Chapel in Kirkwood,...