Someone once said you should help create the kind of world you want to live in. Someone else said to reaffirm your faith in human nature by being your own example of it. One or the other of those may or may not have been me.

Archimedes famously asserted: "Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough, and I will move the world." Local original music is, to my mind, a sound place to stand. How long the lever is remains to be seen.

As a good friend of mine put it, the world needs schemers and dreamers with their dreams and schemes. Vast or small, hugely successful or quietly achieved. This would count as both dream and scheme I suppose; and really it belongs to everyone who wants it to.

Thanks for being part of the dream and the scheme, and for making them your own.