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AUDIENCE COMMENTS

"The music was beautiful, the entertainment hilarious, and the whole experience was wonderfully worthwhile. We loved it so much we tried to get a flight changed to come hear your concert again!"

Anonymous Fan

“What skill and diversity of music! I could have listened another three hours! Thank you for the inspiration and entertainment!”

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“I never would have thought I'd want to go to a handbell concert, but when I heard handbell rock ’n’ roll on the radio, I told my friends, ‘We're going!’ And it was just great.”

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"The Raleigh Ringers are the best handbell ensemble on the globe!!!!”

Greg Pysh
Minister of Music and Composer
Midland, Texas

“Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! They never cease to amaze me. Their playing is so musical, their technique impeccable.”

Cordetta Valthauser
Handbell Soloist
Cleveland Area, Ohio

“Thank you all for being ambassadors of superb musicianship, amazing technique, and sharing the joy of doing something you love, which is contagious.”

Carolann Haley
Assistant to Director of Music Ministries
National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.

“The Raleigh Ringers are truly a wonderful instrument. It is a joy to watch how precisely they respond to director David Harris' musical goals, and how audiences respond as well. This group has definitely attained 'handbell superstar' status.”

Jason Tiller
Sonos Handbell Ensemble
San Francisco, CA

“The best part was, in spite of all the amazing things that they can do with bells – the bass ringer assignments, flawless technique, and all of those kind of things – the best part was that it was musical. I simply enjoyed the music.”

Dean Wagner
Associate Director of Music and Organist
First United Methodist Church of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

“...I did not know how good "good" is in bell ringing until I heard you. It was simply superb, and you must have known that from the unusually enthusiastic response from the audience.”

Ross MacKenzie
Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, New York

The Raleigh Ringers Series

The Raleigh Ringers Series is an ever-expanding collection of advanced handbell music published by Jeffers Handbell Supply to highlight original compositions and arrangements suitable for performance by advanced choirs. The Raleigh Ringers thanks Jeffers, Kevin McChesney, and all the composers and arrangers who have contributed their work to this series.

Pieces in The Raleigh Ringers Series:

'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime arr. Sandra Eithun, 2019
*It Came Upon a Midnight Clear* arr. Sandra Eithun, 2019	*Be Still, My Soul* arr. Alex Guebert, 2018
Resilience Dr. William A. Payn, 2017	O Holy Night arr. Sandra Eithun, 2015
Life's Journey Jason Krug, 2015	Still, Still, Still arr. Cathy Moklebust
Don't Stop Believin' arr. Keith Burt	Coventry Carol arr. Sandra Eithun, 2011
Escape Velocity Jason W. Krug, 2011	Passages Dr. William A. Payn, 2010
Savior of the Nations, Come arr. Sandra Eithun, 2010	Carol of the Drum arr. Michael J. Glasgow, 2010
The First Noel arr. Cathy Moklebust, 2010	Tocatta Allegro Mallory Ferraro, Julie Turner, Jefferey A. Hall, 2008
Quest Dr. William A. Payn, 2008	Bugler's Holiday Leroy Anderson arr. Hart Morris, 2008
Tarantella Traditional Italian Folk Dance arr. Martha Lynn Thompson, 2008	Flight of the Bumblebee Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Martha Lynn Thompson, 2008
O Little Town of Bethlehem Lewis Redner arr. Cathy Moklebust, 2007	Hungarian Dance No. 5 Johannes Brahms arr. Martha Lynn Thompson, 2007
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen arr. Gregory Pysh, 2007	Little Fugue (Fugue in G Minor) Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Michael Kastner, 2004
Dorian Dance Michael Joy, 2003	Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence arr. Cathy Moklebust, 2002
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang A. Mozart arr. Martha Lynn Thompson, 2001	Firebird Finale Igor Stravinsky arr. Douglas Floyd Smith, 2001
Tumult and Tranquility Hal Hopson, 2001	Overture from The Nutcracker Suite Peter I. Tchaikovsky arr. Kevin McChesney, 2001
Greensleeves arr. Cathy Moklebust, 2000	Pinnacle Dr. William A. Payn, 2000
Prelude in C# Minor Sergei Rachmaninoff arr. Douglas Floyd Smith, 1999	Puer Natus Est Dale Jergenson, 1998
Overture from The Barber of Seville Gioacchino Rossini arr. Martha Lynn Thompson, 1998	Carillon Louis Vierne trans. Fred Gramann, 1997
Tempest Kevin McChesney, 1997	Russian Sailors' Dance Reinhold Glière arr. William H. Griffin, 1996
Barnum and Bailey's Favorite Karl King arr. Cathy Moklebust, 1995	Carol of the Wise Men arr. Fred Gramann, 1995

All of these pieces are or will soon be available from Jeffers Handbell Supply.