Join TRR and Sandra Eithun for the WPA Festival!

The 18th Western Pennsylvania Handbell Festival (WPA) will be Saturday, March 30, 2019!

Three Rivers Ringers has presented and managed the WPA Festival, geared toward beginning and intermediate handbell ensembles (Level 1 and 2), for the past seven years. The WPA Festival is now a biannual event, and so the next festival will be Saturday, March 30, 2019 with Sandra Eithun as the Festival Clinician. The 2019 WPA Festival is sponsored by Three Rivers Ringers and the Robert Morris University Band Program.

Coming to a handbell festival is a wonderful way to play with other handbell musicians, work with our Handbell Clinician, and learn more about the music and techniques that enhance our ability to create wonderful handbell experiences for both ringers and listeners. Plus, you will have lots of fun!

Our clinician this year is Sandra Eithun. Sandra is a graduate of Silver Lake College in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, with an emphasis in the Kodály teaching method, keyboard, and flute. She has been serving as Director of Music Ministry at First Congregational United Church of Christ since 1992. At her church, Sandra is the director of three handbell choirs, serves as choral accompanist, and organist/keyboardist. She is the director of the Silver Lake College Handbell Ensemble, an active member of the Handbell Musicians of America, and has served on their Area VII Board of Directors. She has been commissioned to write music for many events and for numerous individual handbell ensembles. She has over 300 pieces for handbells in publication as well as several sacred keyboard books and teaching collections for the incorporation of handbells in the music classroom.

Register by January 25, 2019 and save $25! For more details, download our registration packet. The final registration deadline is March 1, 2019.

Click to download the WPA Registration Packet.

If you have any questions, check out our Frequently Asked Questions page in the packet, or contact Cynthia Donahoe, WPA Festival Registrar (wpa@threeriversringers.org or 412.571.0273).