Our Steele Creek Ringers handbell choir will head out to the Bell Tower Ringers Festival and Handbell Concert to hone their skills and advance their ringing abilities.

The Bell Tower Ringers Festival and Handbell Concert is a training clinic handbell ringers attend to hone their ringing skills to provide you with the most joyful sound as we praise God together.

“David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.” 1 Chronicles 15:16

Besides the ringers and their overnight bags, the ringers will load over 60 handbells, plus mallets, gloves, music stands, music books, foam pads, and even our own table covers into the church van to head out Friday, March 13, to Salisbury, NC.

At 6pm, approximately 200 bell ringers will arrive, unload and set-up in under one hour to be ready to rehearse from 7pm to 9pm on that first night. This could be a logistical nightmare, but Kaarin is an excellent conductor of music as well as movement and sets the pace and expectations for timely set-ups and break-downs.

Saturday, the ringers have several mass rehearsals before a public concert from 4pm - 4:30pm. The concert is free. Drive out to Salisbury, tour the shops in town, and walk over to First Pres and enjoy the 4pm show.

The Handbell choir will ring "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay on April 5. Be here by 10:30am to get a great seat!