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CCR mini-tour Spring 2005 - West Michigan Tour
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Arriving Friday afternoon at Faith Lutheran Church in Whitehall.
Pausing for a photo during warm up in Whitehall.
A view from the balcony during warm up in Whitehall.
Greeting the audience and answering many questions after the concert in Whitehall.
A picturesque mill in Saugatuck.
Forming a strategy for unloading at 1st UMC in Saugatuck on Saturday.
Lisa, Erica, and Jill enjoy the warm sunshine by the waterfront in Saugatuck.
View from the balcony at Harbert Community Church on Sunday.
View through the archway at Habert.
Processing in for the concert while ringing "Procession of Praise".
More of the processional.All in all, a very successful tour. We enjoyed meeting old friends and making new ones. We love to tour and would be more than happy to come to your location, so give us a call!
Recording session on May 18, 1998 at Harvest Music & Sound Design, Lansing, MI.
Nancy, Becky, Lorraine, Jodi, and Ros getting ready.
Jane smiling for the camera while listening to Joel at the console.
Gary, Kim, and Joe providing a bass bell sound-check.
Adrene, Diane, Cheryl, Brad, Kris assist in another sound-check while Gary observes.
CCR, circa 1996 Fall term, on the front lawn of the Capitol building, Lansing.
CCR at the 1998 L.A.M.B. Spring Ring, Martha Avery, clinician. CCR is in the front row. Note Kris Finison on cymbal, Brad Poreda on timpani, and Laura Sparks at the organ (right, behind brass). A record 275 ringers attended this year!
Photo that first appeared on our web site in the summer of 1996.
Getting a bit silly.
Bowing and showing proper respect to the Bell Goddess.
Tired of all these darn pictures!
CCR at the 1994 Eastern National Festival Conference, June 27-30, Niagra Falls, NY. Our commissioned piece, Reunir, was one of the Bronze level selections for both the Eastern and Western National F/C that year.
Of course, Lorraine and Kim had to do some sight-seeing! This is at the bottom of the American Falls.
Another sight-seeing opportunity! Think they'll miss us at rehearsal?
A birds-eye view of the Horseshoe Falls from the helicopter. Note Terrapin Point at the upper left and the Maid-of-the-Mist just to the left of the white water. What a view!
CCR Western Michigan tour, Winter term, 1996. This was taken at Montague UMC.
A fierce winter storm off Lake Michigan at the lighthouse pier in Grand Haven. Waves were washing completely over the pier and "exploding" over the lighthouse and building. The wind was so powerful, I had to lean against the concession building in order to take the picture.
Sound clip of the infamous G3 crash that occured when the main assembly screw snapped in half. The piece is Cathy Moklebust's "Meditation on 'Beautiful Savior'" as we performed in Grand Haven, Michigan during CCR's Spring Tour in April of 1998. The crash occurred somewhere in the middle during the highly emotional climax of the piece. I was really banging away with everything I had when the screw snapped and sent the casting flying into the windchime and suspended cymbal in front of me and came to rest on the Choirchimes (tm) at the front of my table. The clapper assembly and handgaurd flew and landed on the floor in the middle of our tables (U-shaped arrangement). The really amazing thing was that nobody missed a beat. In fact, if it were not for the crash sound, one would not be able to discern that anything had happened. I just happend to have spare parts on hand (including a new clapper assembly for a G3) and repaired the bell in about 5 minutes and we continued the concert. The clip is a 311 kb .wav file sampled at 12,000 Hz, 8-bit stereo for a duration of 13.25 seconds. Click on the link to download.
Kim holds the G-Zero and A-Zero bells at the Malmark factory in Plumsteadville, PA in July, 2001. These are the largest "playable" handbells in the world and are one of a kind. You won't find handbells this large anywhere else. Designed for research purposes, the knowledge and insight gained in developing these bells is then transferred to the production of "normal" size bells.
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