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Announcing the 2023 Official Festival Artist: Keyonna Jones

The National Bell Festival has tapped D.C.-based muralist and creative powerhouse Keyonna Jones to serve as the 2023 Official Festival Artist for the fourth annual...

Bells to Ring for Rosies this Labor Day

This Labor Day, the National Bell Festival invites bells across the nation to ring out in support of the countless women who worked on the home front during World War...

Bell of the USS Osprey Returns to the U.S. Navy

It was June 5, 1944. A Raven-class minesweeper of the U.S. Navy, the USS Osprey (AM–56), churned the waves toward Normandy. It was the evening...

Campanology Word of the Day: Bonshō

A Buddhist monastery in Japan is a rather peaceful place. Monks go about their daily rites and ablutions with dutiful continuity. But as constant and routine as these...

Scholars Propose New Interpretation of Ancient Chinese Bell Metal

A new study in the journal Antiquity, “The Six Recipes of Zhou: A New Perspective on Jin and Xi,” written by A.M. Pollard and Ruiliang Liu and published by...

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