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Festival Conference 2011 • UMass Amherst • June 23-26, 2011 • Jean Degan, Chair

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Festival Conference 2011


Registration fees for attendees staying overnight for the conference cover housing at U Mass in dormitories (sheets and towels included) Thursday through Saturday night – check-out on Sunday. All meals are included beginning with dinner on Thursday evening through lunch on Sunday. Commuter attendees will have dinner on Thursday evening, lunch and dinner on Friday and Saturday and lunch on Sunday. Breakfasts are not provided to commuter attendees. Program costs are included in the registration fee as well, however, if the class description includes a notation regarding extra fees, that is not included in the registration fee and must be paid separately. Attendees are responsible for the purchase of their own music for their division and massed sections.

See Important Housing Announcement on Home Page

Invite all your friends, family and bell ringers to come to the final concert of the Festival Conference. The concert will be at 3 PM on Sunday June 26 in the Mullins Center on the UMASS Amherst Campus. All are welcome and a free-will offering will be received.

Bill Alexander's Rehearsal Notes for Copper and Bronze

Michael Kastner's Rehearsal Notes for Mass and Tins

Registration for AGEHR Area I Festival/Conference 2011 is now open! Here’s what you will need for registration:

  • A completed Course Schedule Worksheet from each of your choir members, available for download below in the Pre-Registration Materials section.
  • The Registration Form and Acrobat Reader 8 or 9. Download the Registration Form and Registration Instructions below.
  • Early Bird registration ends on March 15, 2011; regular registration ends April 15, 2011.
  • Bronze Audition information
Download PRE-REGISTRATION MATERIALS:

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Clinicians: Bill Alexander, Michael Kastner

Opening Concert: Strikepoint

Strikepoint, from Duluth, Minnesota, is a church-based handbell ensemble with a community group feel. Led by "Player/Coach" Bill Alexander, this eleven-member group performs in a directorless ensemble setting. College students and community members have joined with selected ringers from the five bell choirs at Duluth's First United Methodist Church to provide a consistently high level of musicianship since Strikepoint began in 1984. 'Pointers are often high school students, and sometimes as young as 13 years old. Annual summer tours have taken the group throughout the continental U.S. as well as to England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong and Hawaii, with performances in four national capitols, four National Handbell Directors' Seminars, St. Paul's Cathedral in London, both Disney World and Disneyland, and California's Crystal Cathedral. Strikepoint has been the featured performer at four Area Festival Conferences and one National Festival Conference.

To see Repertoire for each division please click on on the proper division link at top of page.

REGISTRATION FEES
  Double Occupancy Single Occupancy Commuter Chaperone
Early Bird by 3/15 $320 $360 $230 $210
Regular by 4/15 $350 $390 $260 $240

 

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