Handbell Ringers of Great Britain
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News ‘n’ Views
Autumn Rally - Report - Pictures
Handbell ringers from across the region met at St. Chad’s Parish Hall in Headingley, Leeds, for the Autumn Rally in October 2009
The event was hosted by Treble Eight Ringers from Leeds. Other teams came from the local area and from as far as Beverley, Lincoln and Sheffield to enjoy ringing bells and making music together.
Teams of between 6 and 12 ringers played music varying from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s ‘Memory’ to Handel’s ‘Zadok the Priest’, on sets of bells varying in number from 12 to over 100.
Two pieces of music were used for Massed Ringing: Tudor Tunes, arranged by Sandra Winter, who kindly arranged special permission for us to use it on this occasion, and an arrangement of Three Country Dances from the HRGB Music Scheme.
Christine Lazenby
Treble Eight Handbell Ringers
Christmas Concert 2009
Saturday 5 December 2009 was the day of the Regional Christmas Concert at Nether Edge in Sheffield (and it was raining).
When we were arranging to set off we seemed to be allowing far too much time really but it’s just as well we did as, when we picked the trailer up, we discovered it had a flat tyre so we had to drive much slower than we would normally.
So, a flat tyre and miserable weather didn’t do anything to help the mood for the evening.
Saturday 5 December 2009 was the day of the Regional Christmas Concert at Nether Edge in Sheffield (and it was raining).
When we were arranging to set off we seemed to be allowing far too much time really but it’s just as well we did as, when we picked the trailer up, we discovered it had a flat tyre so we had to drive much slower than we would normally.
So, a flat tyre and miserable weather didn’t do anything to help the mood for the evening.
So, feeling a bit deflated (both with the concert and the flat tyre) we set off home again. Just to round off the day, sat nav decided to get us lost in the middle of Sheffield – the big wheel looked very nice but we did really only need to see it the once – so it was back to the traditional way of reading the direction signs.
Claire Ford
Beverley Town Handbell Ringers
Claire Ford
Beverley Town Handbell Ringers
Altogether, there were four teams taking part in the concert – Beverley Town (us), Dronfield, Holy Trinity Sheffield and Broomhill Bells. Each team rang solo pieces interspersed with Carol singing which was accompanied on the organ by Stan Nuttall from Holy Trinity Sheffield. The concert was concluded with massed ringing and singing of ‘Silent Night’.
The concert went well but, unfortunately, as always seems to be the case with the North East Region Christmas Concert, there weren’t many people in the audience. There were the usual followers who go to everything the Region does and one or two locals but it always seems a bit demoralising to travel quite a distance (giving up a lot of the day) to find no one has turned out to see us.
The concert went well but, unfortunately, as always seems to be the case with the North East Region Christmas Concert, there weren’t many people in the audience. There were the usual followers who go to everything the Region does and one or two locals but it always seems a bit demoralising to travel quite a distance (giving up a lot of the day) to find no one has turned out to see us.
© Kimberley Ford - Beverley Town Handbell Ringers
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