Susan,

That makes good sense.

Regarding the church, I used to play in a country band during church services, once every month. Loved it. Unfortunately, a new music director was hired, who immediately managed to piss off and alienate almost the entire band, and paid the price in attitude directed toward him. His solution was easy...If you can't control it, kill it. So the Casual Country Band died. Most of the musicians left the church. (I've never understood why a music director would be so anti-musician!) I'm still there, and am trying a new path. We're going to have an informal "Folk Fellowship" on Sunday afternoons, open to all accoustic musicians and singers, very relaxed and informal, open to all levels of muscianship. The funny thing is that I'm a harmonica player and only recently started re-gaining long lost meager guitar playing skills, and this group will be primarily focused on attracting guitar players. And they expect me to lead it! Should be a case of the blind leading the blind. I expect, though, that if I organize it, some more talented guitar players will show up and help out.

By the way, does anyone have a link to where I can get the Rise Up Singing book- from Sing out! publishers mentioned above? Any other good books or resources? I can use all the help I can get.

Thanks, Blues