12th Annual Boston Handbell Festival

The Back Bay Ringers, Boston’s premiere handbell organization, announces the 12^th Annual Boston Handbell Festival, featuring performances by five New England handbell ensembles. Acclaimed handbell composer and director, Eileen Laurence, will also lead the groups in pieces featuring all five groups playing simultaneously. The concert will be held at 8:00 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at the Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street in Boston. Admission is free; seats may be reserved online at www.backbayringers.org and at the door.

To celebrate the history of the Festival, this year there will be a very special guest appearance by the Handbell Choir of the Perkins School for the Blind of Watertown, MA.

As part of their mission of bringing ringing instruments to a larger audience in the Greater Boston area, the Back Bay Ringers will be presenting one set of Malmark Choirchimes to a Boston area school. This will be the twelfth set of choirchimes the Back Bay Ringers have donated to schools in the Greater Boston area. A free will donation will be taken at the door in order to support the chime donation program. Donations may also be made online through the Back Bay Ringers website.