Clovis Community College |
| 417 Schepps Blvd |
| Clovis, NM 88101-8381 |
| General Phone: 505-769-2811 |
| Financial Aid Phone: 505-769-4060 |
| Sector: Public, 2-year |
| Classification: Associates Colleges |
| Website: www.clovis.edu |
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Handbells tuning up for annual festival - Portales News-Tribune
Bells will be ringing in Portales as the holiday season gets under way at the 13th annual Eastern New Mexico Fall Handbell Festival on Saturday. There will be a closing concert open to the public at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in the church sanctuary located at 200 South Avenue C in Portales. Admission to the concert is free, but there will be an offering taken to help with expenses. William Wood , organist with the First UMC, said that he began the festival in 1979 as a means of bringing people together for their musical art. “This is a unique opportunity for most people in the community to experience a different kind of music,” Wood said. Wood said that he began the festival in 1979 as a means of bringing people together for their musical art. Wood says that they bring in a guest director and this year it will be Tim Waugh from Bluefield from West Virginia. Waugh will be conducting the mass ringing festival choir and also play the organ offertory. Waugh is nationally known as a handbell festival conductor and clinician, as well as a composer of handbell and choral music. He holds a - more available