AUBURN | Most have heard of piano lessons and band camp, but handbell camp took summer's end by storm for children who participated in a week of handbell instruction at First Presbyterian Church.

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 ...

No, these aren’t the words to a hopscotch rhyme, as far as I know. Instead, they are musical terms which were heard frequently this weekend as 225 handbell ringers gathered for the fourth annual ...

As I take hold of a glimmering bronze handbell for the first time, I quickly discover there are more to these heavenly-sounding chimes than I previously imagined. Betty Alexander, director/conductor ...

KEARNEY — Christopher Nabors classifies a handbell concert as a “team sport.” “The trick to playing handbells is to make the sound musical without being athletic,” he said from his home in Dallas. “It ...

For most people, performing with handbells, like recorders, was an experience restricted to elementary school. But not Isabela Ramos. She picked up her childhood instrument again when she enrolled at ...

AUBURN | Most have heard of piano lessons and band camp, but handbell camp took summer's end by storm for children who participated in a week of handbell instruction at First Presbyterian Church.