Here’s a fun video by The RingNYC, a community of handbell musicians residing in New York City. The RingNYC provides various ringing opportunities throughout the season for junior and senior high schoolers, college students, young professionals and beyond. This...
Our selection this month is a Barbara Brocker/Rob Pearson bell tree solo arrangement of Amazing Grace. Lisa Gunn plays the piano and Tom Reagan plays the bells on a custom stand that accommodates the leather handles of the Whitechapel bells. Do you have a video you...
As we start to find safe ways to return to ringing, some groups have devised plans to ring from individual tables, while wearing masks and social distancing both themselves and their audiences. Cincinnati, Ohio’s Queen City Bronze performed their annual...
The Week of Handbells has been an annual tradition in Bay View, Michigan since 1977. The 2020 event was canceled, so a group of handbell musicians gathered on the porch of Ruth Crist Hall on what would have been concert night, to play some previously-unseen music and...
We all know of handbell musicians’ fondness for boomwhackers. Aidan Fozard has strung up a set of them to create a “boomafone” and performed “Under the Sea,” with a little added Cajon. In his description for the video, he writes: As...
This month, as we all experience shelter-in-place orders, many handbell musicians are not letting this stop them from performing. In this issue, we offer you two videos of the month, with an invitation to add to the list throughout the rest of the month. In the first...
