Memorial Day Carillon Concert

Simsbury UMC is thrilled to welcome Carillonneur Dan Kehoe back for a Memorial Day concert on our fabulous Foreman Carillon!

Listen inside or on the church lawn. You are welcome to climb the stairs to view the bells - we just ask that you remain quiet while Mr. Kehoe is playing.

Daniel K. Kehoe was carillonneur of the Foreman Carillon beginning in 2007 when he retired after 25 years as Trinity College’s first on-staff carillonneur. In 2016, he moved to the Raleigh, North Carolina area with his wife, Allyson, but has returned each year since to kick off the Simsbury Memorial Day parade with this special concert for those gathering below.

After graduation from Trinity in 1978, where he was the head of the student players, he studied bell playing at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, with Piet van den Broek, a contemporary of and successor to the prior head of the school, Staf Nees and Nees’ own teacher, Jef Denyn, in whose style Kehoe has been recognized as playing.

In North Carolina, he was the interim director of the 30-member Johnston County Chorus, as well as recently retiring as pianist and founding co-director of the Neuse River Big Band. Prior to moving, he was a trombonist with the Solid Oak Big Band here in Simsbury.