Barb Hughes started playing piano and flute as a child and continued both into early adulthood. She played handbells for two years as a teenager at Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, OH and performed with that group at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in 1965. Then she went about the rest of her life. In May of 2017, handbells called to her again and she joined the Salmon Creek United Methodist Church Exultation Ringers in Vancouver, WA, directed by Matthew Compton. With Matt’s encouragement, she auditioned and was accepted into Bells of the Cascades in August of 2017.

Barb works to maintain this website and send out emails on behalf of BOC, and is a current member of the BOC Board. With our web consultant, she is developing a new website to launch our upcoming 35th Anniversary season. She is a retired book editor, can recognize two spaces after a period from a mile away, collects frog figurines, and lives with her partner Mark and two cats. She adores her two daughters, one son-in-law, and two grandchildren, all of whom live entirely too far away!