BYRON CENTER — Music can especially be helpful for the mental and physical health for our seniors. A Byron Center senior living facility is helping their residents enjoy music through a bell choir.

Twelve years ago, Bill Alexander walked into the practice room of the bell ringers at United Methodist Church without a clue about how to direct a bell choir. Sure, he taught music at Marshall School, ...

LANCASTER — The Bulfinch Meetinghouse will be the venue for a special holiday concert, “With Bells On!” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, featuring the beautiful sounds of The Pilgrim Bell Choir of ...

KEARNEY — Like voices, brass, organs and joyful choirs, handbells are a beloved sound of Christmas. They are celebrated in beloved Christmas carols like “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” “Ding ...

Claudette Rothwell, of Layton, smiles as she leads a bell choir at the Community United Methodist Church in Washington Terrace on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. Claudette has been playing the choir ...

This rehearsal by Long Island reSound, a community handbell ensemble with another group in Rocky Point, included arrangements ...

The Beatles’ “Help!” isn’t the first song you’d expect a bell choir to play, nor is a medley from “Star Wars.” But Long Island reSound is broadening the repertoire of handbell music. The community ...

The auditorium got dark, the spotlight was shining and the students walked to their places in front of the stage. They picked up hand bells and with the flick of their wrists, quiet, cheerful sounds ...

After lightning struck the bell tower at Mountain Iron's Messiah Lutheran Church and burned the building to the ground in 1998, the congregation had to make a sound decision. Meghan Manninen (left) ...

A benefit dinner for the Salem First Friends Church’s Quaker Bells hand bell choir will be held from 4-7 p.m. July 13 at The Barn & Gazebo Ltd., 15210 W. Pine Lake Road, Salem. The dinner will feature ...

The sound of music filled the room as the Glendale High School hand bell choir rehearsed. The 13 students used a total of 61 hand bells to produce the chiming sounds reminiscent of church bells. “The ...