• Categories

  • 1996
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • Choirs
  • Classes
  • Clinicians
  • Music
  • Photos
  • Videos

• Handbell Links

  • AGEHR Home - Homepage of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers
  • Area VI - Area VI Homepage
  • Handbell Podcast Community - Paul Weller and Dean Jensen discuss all things handbells
  • Jeffers - Jeffers Handbell Supply - music and equipment
  • ring-Press Music - Online source for new handbell music

• Admin

  • Login

2008 Festival Date and Clinician

Posted on March 12, 2007 | Filed Under 2008, Clinicians, Photos

The 2008 Knox Area Handbell Festival will be held on April 11-12 at Second Presbyterian Church. Returning to the festival as our clinician will be Beth Watson, past AGEHR president and Director of Music at Northwest Hills United Methodist Church in Austin, TX.

(from the AGEHR website):

Beth Watson is Director of Music Ministries at Northwest Hills United Methodist Church, Austin, Texas, where she oversees a program consisting of six choirs. Beth has been attending AGEHR activities since 1965 (as a member of a youth handbell choir in West Virginia) and has been conducting handbell choirs since 1968. She has served as Secretary/Treasurer of Area IX, and as Music Chairman for AGEHR, Inc. She is active as a conductor and clinician for seminars, festivals, workshops, and denominational worship and music conferences. She was also one of the conductors representing the United States at the International Handbell Symposium in Toronto, Canada, in the summer of 2004. Beth has one arrangement published by AGEHR music entitled “Gypsy Song” from Carmen by Georges Bizet. She is also the author of a chapter in the AGEHR publication Page One, for beginning directors. Beth was a charter member and the assistant conductor of the Dallas Handbell Ensemble and the was the original conductor of the Concert Bells of Fort Worth. In addition to her term as President of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Beth also served as President of the Greater Dallas Handbell Association.

2007 Festival Pictures

Posted on March 11, 2007 | Filed Under 2007, Choirs, Clinicians, Photos

Click on the handbells to see the pictures from the 2007 festival with Fred Gramann!

2006 Festival Committee

Posted on March 9, 2007 | Filed Under 2006, Clinicians, Photos

Front, from left: Andrew Duncan, Fountain City UMC; Becky Kidd, Second UMC; Robert Ivey, conductor and clinician; Barbara Schmitt, Grace Lutheran Church. Back row, from left, Tim Lett and Ashley Burrell, First United Presbyterian Church

2006 Festival Choir Photos

Posted on March 8, 2007 | Filed Under 2006, Choirs, Photos

Here are the handbell choir pictures from the 2006 Knox Area Handbell Festival with clinician Bob Ivey. (click the picture to go to the album)