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, ...

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 ...

The sound of the song “Amazing Grace” resonated through Bethel College as the chimes of each bell filled the room with music. Last week, the St. Paul’s Handbell Choir from Sanctuary at St. Paul’s, a ...

Local handbell choirs take on the holiday season. A look at The Trinity Ringers and Jackson High School Handbell Choir. Local handbell choirs take on the holiday season. A look at The Trinity Ringers ...

As she was putting together her plans for the Dance-Along Nutcracker annual holiday concert presented by San Francisco’s LGBTQ marching band, then-director Jadine Louie fielded a request to have a ...

At the end of their musical selection “In the Bleak Midwinter,” the members of the Sonotori handbell choir each raised one of their upturned instruments in the air as if to make a toast. The lingering ...

Whether played in church or outside church, handbell music is beautiful. People will have an opportunity to hear the four handbell choirs from Midland's First United Methodist Church perform on ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 14—OTHELLO — It's difficult enough for a director to keep musicians in line when they're all playing at the same time. But ...

Christmas may be more than a month away, but at United Methodist Temple in Beckley, bells are already ringing in harmony. Seven church handbell choirs from across West Virginia gathered at The Place, ...