They call themselves “ringers” and they come from across the North and Northwest suburbs. Literally, members come from Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Elgin, Lindenhurst, Mundelein, ...

Laine Heltebridle has been ringing handbells for 40 years, and from the first moment he learned how to play — he’s been hooked. “It’s different than other musical things that I have ever done,” ...

Handbell ringers in from Loveland’s First United Methodist Church and Mountain View Presbyterian Church gathered Friday afternoon to ring in summer, and to commemorate the Larimer County residents who ...

Members of Bronze Unlimited perform a song on handbells. Music To Free is a nonprofit organization that brings handbell programs to low- and fixed-income senior living centers, veteran rehabilitation ...

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 ...

From “Jingle Bells” to the street-corner bell ringers of the Salvation Army, the sound of the Christmas season is bells. But bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life ...

For the past 92 years, a group of warmly dressed bell ringers has shuffled door to door, jingling handbells and singing to fellow residents of Beacon Hill on Christmas Eve. The festive bell-ringing ...

Katherine Butler is a member of the Handbell Ringers of Great Britain and services on their Education Committee. Ahead of King Charles’s coronation on May 6 2023, there have been reports of a national ...