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RingFest 2025 Important Dates

 

• Registration Night:  Wednesday, October 29, 2025    6 pm - 9 pm (EDT)

• Rehearsals:       Thursday, October 30, 2025 from 8 am-7 pm (EDT) | Friday, October 31, 2025 from 8 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)

• RingFest Concert:    Friday, October 31, 2025     7:30 pm (EDT)

• Sabbath Services:    Sabbath, November 01, 2025     8:30 am - 1:00 pm (EDT) 

 

 

RingFest 2025 Clinicians are:

 

• Chuck Kobb  

• H. Dean Wagner

• William Ashley

 

Mass Ring Pieces 2025:

 

THEME: Remembering where we've been, yet looking toward the future.

• Capriccio (Kevin McChesney)

  Level 5 for 3-5 octaves HB 

  AGEHR Publications  (MAG-35131) 

  

• Come Emmanuel (arr. Michael Glasgow)

  Level 3- for 3-7 octaves, 3-7 octaves chimes & opt. Strings/Keyboard

  Ring Praise Publications  (MRP 7534 / MRP7534FS / MRP7534K)

• "Unknown" - Commissioned Piece (H. Dean Wagner)

  Level ??

  Not yet published - only available from Composer/RingFest

  

• Fancye (Timothy H Waugh)

  Level 4+ for 3-5 octaves HB

  Jeffers Publishing  (MJHS 9336 / LJHS 9336)

• Huron Carol (arr. H. Dean Wagner)

  Level 3 for 3-6 octaves HB, 2-7 octaves chimes, & opt percussion

  From the Top Music (MFM 20692 / LFM 20692)

• Toccata on "King's Weston" (arr. Matthew Compton)

  Level 3+ for 3-6 octaves HB & 2 octaves chimes  

  Hope Publishing Co.  (MHP 2767 / LHP 2767)

 

 

If you can't join us in person, we begin live streaming from church on registration night and continue right through RingFest culminating with the Friday night concert.

 

Registration Links - RingFest 2025 - Registration Open until Monday, September 29, 2025 @ 5 pm EDT  

Prayer & Sabbath Services and Susan Berry Leadership Forms remain open later than main registration.

Please note:  Due to venue space limitations, RingFest participation is limited to groups who attended the previous year.  Interested Adventist Academy Handbell Choirs can request to be placed on a wait-list and will receive notification when a space becomes available.  To be placed on the wait-list, please contact event organizers via email ringfest@hotmail.com.

 

Please remember there is a $50 non-refundable deposit due with Registration for each person (Director, Ringers, & Chaperones) attending RingFest.

 

School Registration Form - Required

RingFest Participant Registration - Required for each Participant (Ringer, Director, Chaperone, Driver, etc.)

Hotel Room Sign Up - only Required if using RingFest sponsored Housing

Prayer & Sabbath Services - Required

Susan Berry Leadership - Optional

Blank Deposit Invoice - May be used to calculate your Deposit Amount; submit to School Business Manager for payment.  Please save a copy to your computer before editing as this links to an original document.

 

T-shirt design competition for T-shirts to be sold in RingFest Store.

Design Rules:

• Must fit on a standard t-shirt - no larger than 10" x 14"

• The design must fit on either the front or back of a t-shirt (No designs that utilize both the front and back of the shirt)

• Must contain a reference to music (i.e. music notes, music notation, etc.). *preference will be shown to handbell specific references*

• Must contain NO MORE than 3 colors not including the color of the t-shirt itself. We encourage the use of less than 3 colors to help keep the shirt affordable

• Must be appropriate (i.e. no profanity, sexual references, crude imagery, etc.) If clarification or confirmation is desired, please reach out to event organizers.

• It is encouraged for the design to reference Ringfest or our 25th anniversary, but it is not required.

• There is no limit to the number of entries a single person or school can make. The design does not need to come from a member of the bell choir. The more the merrier.

• There is no monetary compensation for this competition. The winner(s)’s design will be used for a t-shirt that will be sold in the Ringfest store.  However, the winner(s) will receive a complimentary t-shirt with their design.

• Preferred formats:  Vector, Adobe Illustrator, & high-resolution PNG

 

Submit T-Shirt Design 

Submission Deadline:  Friday, October 10, 2025, 2 pm EDT

 

 

 

Future RingFest Dates:

 

2026:  October 28 - October 31, 2026;  Guest Clinicians - Michèle Sharik and Barbara Meinke

2027:  October 27 - October 30, 2027;  Guest Clinicians - David Harris and TBD

2028:  October 25 - October 28, 2028;  Guest Clinicians - TBD

2029:  October 24 - October 27, 2029;  Guest Clinicians - Martha Matthews and Cathy Moklebust

 

RingFest Archive                                               

 

The archive has almost every recording of past RingFest concerts.

We no longer produce DVDs and CDs, but we freely make videos and audio available here.