Lowcountry Handbell Festival - March 7 & 8 has been cancelled!

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Lowcountry Handbell FESTIVAL

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March 7-8, 2025 - Cancelled

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Lowcountry Handbell Festival 2025 has been Cancelled

March 7-8, 2025

Stephanie Rhodes will be our Clinician


Venue - Summerville Baptist

417 Central Avenue

Summerville, SC 29483


We hope you are eager to come back to the Charleston area and have fun learning and ringing with other ringers! 


 We love having folks come to our workshop with enthusiasm and excitement to learn more about the art of Handbells.  


There is a lot of work and planning that goes into the Lowcountry Handbell Workshop and we are working diligently to make this a workshop to remember!


This will not be a leveled workshop format it will be a festival with ringing only.

Register Here

Online Registration Form - If you wish, you may print this form and mail it with your check.

Register

Registration Fees

Early Bird - $45 - Deadline: January 11, 2025


Regular - $50 - Deadline: February 22, 2025


$5 is non-refundable

No Refunds after March 2, 2025

Repertoire

Grazioso - Arnold Sherman -MRRHB0042

Grand Chorus-Joel Raney- MHP2900

Forever Rejoice - Linda Scholes - MCP7093

A Time for Peace - Paul McElveen - MJHS9600

Challenge Piece

Peals of Praise - Karen Buckwalter - MCGB1321



All music should be purchased and learned ahead of the festival. These selections can be ordered from Jeffers Handbell Supply or any other music distributor. No photo copies.


 

Workshop Schedule

Tentative Schedule for 2025 - Cancelled

   Friday, March 7

4:00 - 7:00 PM ..................................... Registration and set-up 

7:30 - 8:3-PM     ..............................Challenge Piece Rehearsal

Saturday, March 8

8:00 -9:00 AM ..................................... Registration and set-up 

9:00 - 9:15 AM ........................................................... Welcome

9:15 -10:30 AM ...........................................................Rehearsal

10:30 -10:45 AM ..............................................................Break

10:45 - Noon  .............................................................Rehearsal

Noon - 1:15 PM  ......................................................... Lunch

 12:45 - 1:15 PM .............................. Challenge Piece Rehearsal

  1:15 - 2:30 PM........................................................... Rehearsal

 2:30 - 2:45 PM   ................................................................ Break

 2:45 - 3:45 PM   ............................................... Dress Rehearsal

  4:00 PM              .................................................... Final Concert 

Palmetto Bronze will play a mini concert during the Final 

Concert 


Workshop Details

Massed Ringing

2025 Will be the Festival format

2025 will not feature CLASSES

We welcome Stephanie Rhoades, 

Director of the Concert Bells of Fort Worth, 

and Preston Hollow Presbyterian Chruch 

to our podium this year!

An opportunity to polish our pieces under a nationally known clinician's direction. We will also learn many valuable ideas about improving our ringing skills.

2025 will not feature CLASSES

2025 Will be the Festival format

2025 will not feature CLASSES

We will not have any classes for 2025

2025 Will be the Festival format

2025 Will be the Festival format

2025 Will be the Festival format

2025 LH Information

Hotels in Summerville Area for LHW 2023 (docx)Download
2024 Class Descriptions - Tins - rev B (docx)Download
2024 Class Descriptions - Coppers - rev B (docx)Download

On-Site Workshops

Palmetto Bronze will construct a workshop especially for your group

Palmetto Bronze will construct a workshop especially for your group

Palmetto Bronze will construct a workshop especially for your group

Are you just starting out and need some help? Do you need special help on certain techniques? Want to jump start your season? An on-site workshop tailored to your needs might be just what you are looking for. Fees depend on length of workshop and number of Palmetto Bronze ringers needed to do the workshop.

What we can do with your group

Palmetto Bronze will construct a workshop especially for your group

Palmetto Bronze will construct a workshop especially for your group

Techniques, musicality, bell changes, sight reading skills, mallets, 4 in hand/Shelley (beginning or advanced), bass bells, or we can work on your own repertoire.

Contact Us

Palmetto Bronze will construct a workshop especially for your group

Contact Us

Palmetto Bronze Board

board@palmettobronze.com

to schedule your workshop.

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