Thanks for the endorcements. I have been working on a mission statement, and it is short enough to put on our letter head.

"The day the civil rights movement in America died - was the day we stopped singing" (Arthur Ninoy * to Larry Otway over burbon in a bus depo bar.) The mission of the Hearthside Music Cooperative is to sing as though our lives depend on it.

*Arthur is a great elder statesman of people's lawyering, the last lawyer for the Rosenburgs among many other great cases.
Cheers
Larry