Running with the Buffaloes

New Year Devotion from Ringing Deeply by Brian Childers Brian Childers is an accomplished composer, conductor, and clinician. His choral, instrumental, and handbell works have been performed across the nation and abroad. He has been a featured performer and clinician...

Aloha, Handbells!

Challenges of Maintaining a Handbell Program in an Isolated Area by Becky Yoza Becky is co-founder of Honolulu Bronze, a community-based handbell ensemble. She started ringing at age five and has rung in church groups in five states as well as several non-profit,...

Being Welcoming

Some ways to help a new ringer feel at home by Katie Melton Katie Melton is a junior at Elon University, with a major in Cinema and Television Arts and a minor in French Studies. She has been ringing handbells for 13 years, starting with children’s choir at Davidson...

Your Church Choirs

To Festival or Not to Festival by Martin Morley Martin Morley has enjoyed a multifaceted career as a pianist, church musician, music therapist, teacher, handbell clinician, and massed ringing conductor. As a pianist, he has performed in twenty-six states and Canada...

Physical and Spiritual

Music and the Physics of the Spiritby Alys Lindholm Alys Lindholm has been ringing handbells since childhood, and enjoys noticing how ringing in different acoustical spaces affects the pieces being performed. She babbles about sound wave length to both children and...