Handbell ringing in the US has become more popular over the past 50 years. A Handbell Musicians of America predecessor had fewer than 50 members in 1955; in 2012 HMA has roughly 7,000 registered ...

“Handbell ringing is fun and it is a big puzzle,” noted Sharik. “We have a saying, if you can tell your left hand from your right hand and count to four, you can learn to play handbell.” When Peng and ...

The seven women stood behind a long table. Their shiny brass handbells were arranged in front of them, smallest to largest in size, highest to deepest in notes. Cathy Miles stepped to the music stand, ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s become a lost tradition for many churches in the metro. On Saturday, St. Thomas Lutheran Church held a handbell festival Jason Horner the music director of the church said ...

SKOWHEGAN — The handbell ringers begin trickling into the basement of the All Saints Episcopal Church every Tuesday around 4 p.m. Practice starts at 4:30, but there’s lots of setting up to do — moving ...

More than 200 musicians came to Warner Robins March 9-10 — and they brought bells. Groups from 17 churches came from across the state for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s 2018 Handbell Festival ...

Mindi Vetter, 16, left, and Sarah Tupper, 16, of the Spokane Valley Adventist School Handbell Choir perform their solo, "Jubilation" during Ringspiration 2005 at the Cathedral of St. John the ...

MANKATO — Charlie Leftridge and the Carnegie Art Center go together like paint and brushes, so it won’t be shocking to see his work incorporated into Saturday’s Live at the Carnegie event with Twin ...

Take 12 guys from the freshman football team, put them in a room with 37 handbells and a teacher, add a crash course in reading music and before you know it, they’re making beautiful music. It’s a ...

DULUTH — Bill Alexander, founder and longtime leader of the acclaimed handbell ensemble Strikepoint, died early Monday morning at age 70. The cause was cancer, according to a CaringBridge page ...