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 ...

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 ...

Learning to play the handbell is as easy as counting to four, Jeanne Jessup said. Jessup is the founder and director of the new advanced community bell choir, The Gulf Coast Ringers. The group is made ...

To the layman's eye and ear, being a part of a handbell choir might seem like an easy, pressure-free way to make music. After all, an individual is only in charge of sounding two or three notes of the ...

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, ...

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, ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- There is nothing like the sound of a handbell choir, especially at this time of year. CBS 2's Kate Sullivan introduces us to one of Chicago's finest handbell choirs: Chicago Bronze. It ...

The Peace Lutheran Church handbell choir started in 1982 when two families in the church tragically lost two young men, and donated English handbells to the church as a memorial. From there, Choir ...

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 ...

LANCASTER - The coronavirus has been hard on musicians and performers, with few outlets for their creativity and significant risk in doing things like getting together and singing. Necessity is the ...