As usual, our December has been our busy performance season. People associate handbells with Christmas, so that’s when they book us. We’ve been at some fun places:
- Holland Kerstmarkt. Between Thanksgiving and mid-December, we were the ambience for our city’s Dutch Christmas market. It’s an outdoor event, so we pre-chill our bells, bundle up, and look forward to making our local event even more exciting.
- Otsego Hometown Christmas. Otsego is a town about an hour from home between Holland and Kalamazoo. Like the Kerstmarkt, this was an outdoor event, and we were thankful for the opportunity to gather round one of the firepits after we were done making music.
- Community organizations. We presented Christmas concerts at retirement communities and a library. These were every-other-year sorts of opportunities, so we enjoyed seeing some friends who we’d visited in the past.
- Churches. Getting to be part of church services makes Christmastime special for everyone.
We’ve also been sharing our eight-bell music on our Facebook page as well. It’s given us the opportunity to show people from many places what’s possible with just eight handbells.
2024 is just around the corner, and we have much more new music to publish. While that’s all being lined up, we wish you a Merry Christmas, with blessings for the New Year.
