Our Members

Meet the members of Suncoast Bronze Ringers!

Please click on the photographs to learn more about each member.

Michael Lamb

Michael Lamb has been a handbell director and ringer since 1983. He directed the handbell program at First Congregational Church in Springfield, Illinois for 30 years and was the Music Director there for 15 years. In 1997 he founded the Bells in Motion handbell ensemble which is an advanced community handbell group with ringers from throughout the Midwest. Michael studied conducting and music at the University of Illinois and at Illinois State University. In 2003 he completed a Master Conducting class under the instruction of Dr. William Payn. In September of 2019, he became the director of Suncoast Bronze Ringers.

Michael is also an accomplished musician on the tuba, piano, voice and solo handbells. He has performed handbell solos at concerts, church services and weddings throughout the Midwest and Florida. He has also performed three times as a ringer with the bi-annual nationally auditioned Virtuoso ensemble with the Raleigh Ringers. When not involved in music, Michael works as an accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Valerie Bush

Valerie Bush has been ringing for 20 years after learning on choir chimes at a church in Matthews, North Carolina. This is her third membership in a community ensemble; the others being Ring Sarasota in Sarasota, Florida and Westminster Ringers in Westminster, Maryland. She is married, has 3 children, 5 grandchildren, 2 grand dogs and 1 grand cat. Her hobbies include knitting and Swedish weaving.

Jackie Kerschbaum

Jackie Kerschbaum began playing handbells in 2011 at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church where she sang in the choir and worked in the office. She joined Suncoast Bronze Ringers in its second year. She has held a board position since 2015 for secretary, venues and publicity. She volunteers for local agencies, is a kayaking member of Hudson Beach Yacht Club, a frequent cruiser on Holland America line and enjoys time with her sister, 2 daughters and 4 grandchildren.

Brenna Lehman

Brenna Lehman started ringing at her church in Washington state in 1995. A friend auditioned for Bells of the Sound and talked her into it as well. She retired and moved to Florida. After a few years, she missed ringing and looked for a group. She found Suncoast Bronze Ringers and has enjoyed ringing again in this group.

Teri Michael

Teri Michael is a happily retired elementary classroom teacher after 33 years. She joined Suncoast Bronze in 2013 and has been a member of her church handbell choir since 1996. Music was a big part of her growing up as she was in bands from elementary school through high school orchestra and jazz band, playing alto saxophone. Teri and husband Greg, have a blended family of 3 grown sons and 5 grandchildren. She relaxes with family and friends, does craft projects and is an avid reader.

Nancy Chase

Nancy Chase is an individual and family therapist who has lived in Florida for over 40 years. Whether skydiving out of an airplane or swimming with sharks in Hawaii, Nancy is always looking for adventure and new experiences. She started playing handbells as a teenager but then returned to it three years ago. She loves being a part of a team that creates soul inspiring music and enjoys tearing down handbell stereotypes.

Patricia Deighton

Patricia Deighton is a native of Kansas and graduate of Kansas State University in Music Education. She began playing handbells in 1982 at the church where she was Director of Music and Organist. She is an original member of Suncoast Bronze Ringers and became its second director in 2014. She is currently organist at First United Methodist Church of Hudson, Florida and plays in their Bellaire handbell choir. She has two grown children and three active grandsons. She enjoys reading, crafting and sewing.

Cyndi Hughes

Cyndi Hughes is a Judicial Assistant for the 6th Judicial Circuit of Florida by day, and church organist/pianist by night and weekend. She has been playing handbells since the early 1980's and became truly hooked after attending a festival in St. Louis where the clinician was none other than the great Don Allured. That was the first time she had seen any bells outside the normal three octaves and has been loving playing handbells ever since.

Delaine Roberts

Delaine Roberts grew up playing trumpet and French horn in high school and college bands, both concert and marching. At the same time, Delaine performed with a nationally competitive drum and bugle corps. What to do with that musical knowledge when you don’t want to march every weekend anymore? Bells of course! She rings at St. Mark Lutheran of Dunedin where she first learned how to ring 20+ years ago. By day, Delaine works in the loan operations department for a local community bank.

Terry Agosta Rotunda

Terry Agosta Rotunda began to ring handbells as a teen at Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church in Clearwater. She was thrilled to be invited to join Hudson Methodist Church’s Bellaires. She is one of the charter members of Suncoast Bronze Ringers and enjoys the challenge of ringing with our team of ringers.

Diane Salmon

Diane Salmon grew up in College Park, Maryland and moved to Florida in 2008. She is working full time as an Administrative Service Specialist at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, Florida. She had no music background but was invited to learn to play handbells with her son and daughter at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Dunedin, Florida, where her son and daughter were handbell ringers. Other than handbells, her interests are reading, cooking and being outdoors hiking or walking.

Jeanmarie Seabaugh

Jeanmarie Seabaugh started ringing handbells at the age of 15 in Westminster Presbyterian Church in Connecticut. She continued to play wherever she lived, ending up in Brighton, Michigan. She played at Shepherd of the Lakes and after more than a year without a bell director, she took on the task. She did undergraduate music classes at the local college to broaden her musical knowledge. After 6 years, she and her husband, Steve, moved to Florida. She sang with Nature Coast Festival Singers and met Jackie who told her about Suncoast Bronze Ringers in 2014. She has been treasurer since 2015 and was instrumental in Suncoat Bronze Ringer’'s incorporation as a non-profit. She is an Enrolled Agent.

Kirsten Ostergren Clark

New to the area and a new member of Sun Coast Bronze, Kirsten has been playing handbells for the better part of 35 years with churches in the various places she has lived, including Alabama (playing with the Embellishments community choir in Birmingham), Indiana, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. Kirsten just completed her PhD in Medical Sociology and enjoys exercising and singing, traveling, working on her Spanish-speaking skills, and spending time with friends and family, including her three teen-aged children. Having experience with different bell positions and techniques, bass bells have always been her favorite.

Susan Napier

Sue has been ringing bells for 30+ years, starting in high school and ringing at Seminole United Methodist Church. She then rang at First United Methodist Church of Lutz and moved on to become the Handbell Director at Van Dyke United Methodist Church. She currently rings at Lake Magdalene United Methodist Church, where she works full time in Membership. She is one of the newest members of Suncoast Bronze, joining in March of this year.

Amy Meyers

Amy Meyers has been playing handbells for about 8 years when she joined the ringers at her church in Woodstock, GA. When she moved to Florida in 2020, she sought out a church with a handbell program and found Hudson First United Methodist Church – where she now plays handbells and clarinet. Amy is a lifetime musician having started piano at age 6 and clarinet at age 9 – with dabbling with alto and tenor sax and flute off and on. Her 15 minutes of fame came when she performed at Carnegie Hall with the Atlanta Wind Symphony in 2005. She is now excited to focus on handbells and feels blessed to be a part of the Suncoast Bronze. When she isn’t playing music, Amy likes to play with her beagle, Daisy, and spend as much time as possible at the beach.

Julie Roahrig

Julie Roahrig is a retired real estate appraiser for the past 2+ years and moved from upstate New York to Florida over 40 years ago. Growing up, Music and Arts was a large part of her interests. As a child she took piano and organ lessons and later learned to play guitar, bass guitar, ukelele, violin and handbells. After becoming a member of Palm Harbor United Methodist church in the mid 80’s, she sang alto in the choir, learned to play handbells and currently plays guitar on the worship team. She continues to be a part of the handbell group at PHUMC and joined Suncoast Bronze in 2019.

Tracey Krimbill

Tracey started her my “ringing career” with Asbury Ringers in Maitland, FL in 2006.
She moved to Rochester NY from FL and began ringing with Third Church Ringers. This group introduced her to HMA Area events, and she very happily attended many; recently including Area 4. Tracey also attended Bay View Week of Handbells 2022 and found it was truly a life-changing experience!
Tracey and her husband currently have two “kids”…..West Highland White Terriers.
As a couple their three passions in life are studying the Bible, home renovation projects and spoiling our precious Westies.

Tami Lamb

Tami Lamb rings bells because otherwise she would never see Mike, her husband of 40+ years. Coincidently, that is about how long she has been ringing bells- she learned when her husband was asked to help start a bell group at their church and she learned from him. From church to the Community group Bells In Motion, national events and International tours, she has enjoyed them all. Now she is honored to join SunCoast Bronze Ringers. She is retired from nursing and enjoys reading, travel, visiting with her first grandchild Oliver and of course, prepping for the next bell rehearsal.

Steven (Steve) Leadbetter

Steven (Steve) Leadbetter
I am delighted to join the Suncoast Bronze Ringers for the Fall 2023 semester, particularly after a wonderful experience ringing with the SBR in the Summer 2023 Performance tour in Spain.
I’m currently ringing in two community handbell groups, also in my eighth season as a member of Ring Sarasota(RS), where I’m wrapping up two terms (four years) as RS Board President. I was a founding member (2002) of the Atlanta Concert Ringers and have nearly 30 years of ringing experience.
I participated in the Summer 2007 Distinctly Bronze (DB)European Tour (Scotland, England, and France). Stateside, I’ve participated in numerous Area 4, DB East, DB West, and Bay View Week of Handbells events. I’ve been selected for several All-Star Choirs at NationalSeminar, as well as the Raleigh Ringers’ Virtuoso.
I was a statistician for the federal government, first at the Census Bureau in metro DC for about a decade, then at the CDC in Atlanta for over 22 years. In 2016, I semi-retired in Florida as a CDC contractor before I finally “retired retired” in July 2022.