Ring Out, a bell-founding and ringing celebration project, is to take place during the Frome Festival, thanks to Heritage Fund grant.
Ring Out is a new project by Rook Lane Arts Trust and Artmusic and is a celebration of bell founding and bell ringing, and has been awarded a grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Funding has also been received from the Frome Society for Local Study and Frome Town Council mayor’s fund.
Ring Out will form part of this year’s Frome Festival with 13 events taking place across the 10 days.
There will be walks, talks, concerts and tours. Listen out for the Frome Carillon ringing the hours from above the market square; visit a local bell tower or a bell engineering works, and try your hand at hand-bell ringing or even ring a tower bell.
The project is also made possible with the collaboration of many local partners: Bell ringers from Somerset and Wiltshire, Poetry in Motion, Frome Museum, St John’s Church, Matthew Higby & Company Ltd, The Silk Mill and Frome FM Community Radio.
For details of events visit, www.fromefestival .co.uk
Pictured: Helen Ottaway artistic director Artmusic, Martin Bax Chair Rook Lane Arts Trust, Mathew Higby director Mathew Higby and Company (bell founders) pic credit – David Chedgy.
