Empowering and Enabling

Abstract

Between sessions, I look around at my environment. I work in a pleasant room, with plenty of light (although sometimes too much heat). I have a good array of instruments with which people can make all manner of music together. I think of the music-making I have been a part of here so far today: a listening and supportive group who have been together for over a year now and whose music is really developing; a startlingly beautiful Bangladeshi song sung by a woman with whom I have barely a word of language in common; and a rousing rendition of Frankie Vaughan's greatest hits from a would-be cabaret artist with me as his piano-playing sidekick.