Penobscot Bay Ringers

Bunny Stanley, Conductor

Bunny Stanley teaches K-8 music at the Bristol consolidated School in Bristol, Maine.  Her schedule includes general music education classes, choruses, band, and a handbell choir.  She is a 1995 graduate of the University of Southern Maine with a  degree in Music Education.  Her Master's degree in Music Education was completed in 2009.  She is fully certified in Kindermusic and Orff I.  Mrs. Stanley has conducted the Augusta Symphony Children's Chorus, played handbells with the Parish Ringers of Brunswick, Me., held the Maine State Chair and Education Liaison for the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, presented handbell workshops in several states, and is responsible for beginning handbell groups in Maine and Estonia.  She is presently the Music Director of the Old South (UCC) Church in Hallowell, Maine.

RINGERS: 

Leigh Smith, Co-founder

Ella Saltonstall, Co-founder

Becky Leonard

Amy Rollins

Debra Hall

Susan Baines

Lyn Degnan 

Olivia Hamalainen 

Lavaine Honaker

B.J. Kopishke

Jane Bourassa

Rose Honaker 

Susan Weber

Did you know??

The clapper of a handbell only goes in forward and backwards -- it does not ring side-to-side like many imagine a dinner bell ringing.