Festival Conference for Handbells at Bucknell

Nine handbell ringers have returned from Bucknell University and four days
of ringing handbells. Toni Baller, Su Buchholz, Debbie Huehn, Karen Keymel, Marguerite Manning, Lyn Reville, Kate Rowland, Ginny Wenner and Nancy Witmer rehearsed with their Tins group for more than seven hours, rehearsed with the Massed choir of 650 ringers for six hours, and took nine hours of workshops on a variety of handbell topics. We also listened to concerts by soloists, other handbell choirs, and two excellent community handbell choirs from Philadelphia and New England. We ate excellent food at the dining hall, slept on the men's floor of a large dorm, walked up and down hills from rehearsal hall (in a brand-new athletic building) to dining hall to classrooms and back again to rehearse. The Festival Conference was a great experience for all those who attended - we not only learned much, but we also had much fun!!!