Handbell Festival - Day 19 PPCD

Our handbell choir at the MTBHBF at FBC, Mt. Juliet. (We're the group in the white shirts.)

Our Celebration Bells handbell choir played at the Middle Tennessee Baptist Handbell Festival this weekend. We had a great time. Tim Waugh, the clinician, was wonderful. We learned a lot. But probably what we enjoyed the most was hearing other handbell choirs. It was very inspiring.

We loved the way the choir from Tulip Grove Baptist Church played. Mrs. Nancy commented, "even if you were deaf you would enjoy that choir" because they move their bells so beautifully as they play.

We played four songs with all of the choirs - very beautiful songs that you will probably hear for offertories soon - and we played one song by ourselves. We were a bit nervous since it was our first time to ever attend a bell festival, much less play for judges. The judges had very nice things to say about our playing. (I knew they would.) Here's some of their comments.

"very well presented"

"very worshipful"

"good energetic first measure"

"good contrast in dynamics"

"you look great - it's OK to smile at the beginning and middle just like you did at the end" (I told you we were nervous.)

"this piece has very complex synchopation which was executed exceptionally well"

and there were more, but I don't want to brag too much...

After the festival we ended up at Olive Garden for lunch - yummmm!

oops, sorry, picture is a little blurry

By the way, it is day 19 of our Bow the Knee Hilldale's Passion Play Countdown.

Handbell Festival - Feb. 22-23

The Handbell Festival for Middle Tennessee is February 22-23. Our handbell choir will be attending. We had our first look at the music for festival last night. They made some good choices for this year's music.

For those of you who have never been to a handbell festival, this is how it works. We will join 15 or so other choirs from across the state and ring four songs together. We will also play one song by ourselves for "adjudication" which is a fancy way of saying we'll ring for some judges who will then give us a score and tell us all the wonderful things we did as we rang.

Tim Waugh will be our clinician this year. That means he will be directing all of the choirs when we play together.

This is a good picture of Tim, but it doesn't show his pony-tail. He's a great director and makes festival fun!




You can see all of this info and more at http://www.tnbaptist.org/CalendarEvent.asp?eventid=1006&cat=music&subcat=events04