Here’s a great article from another blog on music in the community. I particularly like this:

music to many of us is about or used to be about participation and it was not just about being entertained or sung to, we were not separate from it, we are an integral part of it

Preach it brother. We’ve all got something to bring to the party. This is what every performer should remember…it’s not just about ME.

And it’s also what everybody who is there “to be entertained” could do to remember too. What have I got to bring to this?

Because everybody has got something to bring, where music is concerned. Even if it’s just the tap of a foot.