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,...

Nuts and Bolts

Helpful odds and ends to have at students’ tables by Kathleen Wissinger Kathleen Wissinger is starting her 17th year teaching handbells to 5th-8th graders at Redeemer Classical School in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She taught nine weeks of online classes last spring using...

Joining Forces

Collaboration between a community choir and community college makes a winning combination by Barbara Scheffter Barbara Scheffter holds a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s in education, and a bachelor’s in music education, the latter of which she acquired after...
Who Can “Grant”  Your Wishes?

Who Can “Grant” Your Wishes?

Special grant helps a school discover ringing amid continuing pandemic by Gillian Erlenborn Gillian Erlenborn teaches 6th, 7th, and 8th grade choir and musical theater at Frelinghuysen Middle School in Morristown, New Jersey. This past year, she has been implementing...