Health & Fitness
KATONAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH TO HOST HANDBELL BENEFIT CONCERT ON MARCH 22
MONEY RAISED WILL GO TO HELP FEED HUNGRY CHILDREN THROUGH BACKPACK SNACK ATTACK
Saturday, March 22, 2014, 4 P.M., Open To All
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KATONAH, N.Y., March 11, 2014 – Six choirs from New York and New Jersey will gather at the First Presbyterian Church of Katonah for the 5th Annual Hudson Valley Young Ringers Handbell Festival on March 22, culminating in a Benefit Concert at 4:00 p.m. in the church's new Fellowship Hall.
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Under the direction of Carol Roman from the Warwick Reformed Church, young ringers from fourth grade through high school from congregations in Athens, Katonah, Pearl River, Pleasantville and Warwick, N.Y. and Sparta, N.J. will play a selection of pieces, including Campana Sonos and Love Will Find a Way.
Admission is free, but a free-will offering will be collected to support the concert’s benefit recipient, Backpack Snack Attack, which feeds the public school children of Warwick Township. The volunteer-run, non-profit organization is an outreach program of the Warwick Reformed Church in Warwick, N.Y. that began in 2009. BSA provides food on weekends and in the summer to more than 300 hungry children within the Florida, Greenwood Lake, Pine Island and Warwick School Districts. A group of volunteers fills backpacks each week with 13-14 food items per child. They then deliver this food to the schools, where each child receives a backpack to take home.
This is the second year that Pleasantville’s Emanuel Lutheran Church handbell choir will be attending the Young Ringers Festival. Emanuel’s director Eiko Cornelius said that the organizers wanted the offering to go to someone in need, and she thinks that the youth in the choirs could relate to a program like Backpack Snack Attack.
Eileen Laurence, Director of Music at the First Presbyterian Church of Katonah, organized the Festival. The church is located at 31 Bedford Road, Katonah, NY 10536. For more information, please contact the church at 914-232-4568.
