Why this LDS handbell choir concert is worth a listen

Driving the news: Tickets went online this week for the free spring concert by the Bells at Temple Square at 7:30pm on June 9.

No, seriously. If you haven't seen a handbell choir, you're … well, probably a normal person. But you're missing out on a surprisingly high-stakes display of synchronicity and sound.

• Erin here! I played in a bell choir as a kid, and it's a fiercely unforgiving musical medium that requires razor-precise timing from each player lest chords devolve into sloppy arpeggios. And you're usually not playing marches, so everyone has to sensitively track the conductor's tempo changes.

The bottom line: You can't just go out to the club and find a 33-piece handbell choir to listen to every Friday night, so consider broadening your musical diet in June.

• Start your day with this video of the group pealing the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations."