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This creates challenges for the maintenance of well-being which can be enhanced by active engagement in society. There is extensive research that confirms that engagement in music by older people is positively related to individual and community wellbeing. Music engagement encompasses a range of social participation and has the potential to recognise the contribution of older people to their local communities. Music participation can contribute to a better quality of life, particularly in relation to health and happiness. There are many possible forms of music engagement. This study is part of an on-going Deakin University and Monash University research project, Well-being and ageing: community, diversity and the arts in Victoria. This article focuses on three members of a mixed voluntary singing group formed by older residents of an outer suburban community in Melbourne, Australia. This group, The Skylarkers, were established in 1999 as a four-part choir. Over the years the nature of the choir has changed under subsequent music directors. Since 2009 the group has focused on music theatre repertoire and performance style. Membership of the group is fluid reflecting changing life circumstances of the members but the ensemble is resilient. This small amateur music theatre group is based in suburban Melbourne, rehearses weekly and performs regularly at retirement villages, nursing homes and facilities for senior citizens. This article presents a phenomenological qualitative single case study of members of the Skylarkers. In this study, interview data were gathered in 2011- 2012 and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Two significant themes emerged that concern musical self-identity and gaining a sense of purpose and fulfilment. The Skylarkers are more than a choir; they are an amateur entertainment troupe that engages with each other and the wider community. This resilient group holds true to the motto ‘the show must go on’.  \nKey words: well-being; community music; musical self-identity; active engagement; positive ageing  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 2014:1, 66-76  \nIntroduction  \nGlobally the proportion of people aged 60+ years is “growing faster than any other age group, as a result of both longer life expectancy and declining fertility rates”(World Health Organization (WHO), 2013). This inevitable and predictable rapidly changing population  \ndemographic challenges societies to adapt and maximize health, functionality, and social engagement amongst older people. Ultimately there must be increased attention to the concept of active ageing and the enhancement of quality of life. The World Health Organization asserts that, active ageing should allow people “to realize  \n66 2014, No. 1  \ntheir potential for physical, social, and mental well-being throughout the life course and to participate in society according to their needs, desires and capacities, while providing them with adequate protection, security and care”(2002, p. 12). WHO (2002) defines ‘active’ as ongoing participation in social, economic, and cultural aspects of life. In Australia as elsewhere across the globe the ageing population creates challengesand opportunities for maintaining well-being and combating social isolation. Australia’s population, as in most developed countries, is ageing. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011), in the two past decades the proportion of the population aged 65 years and over has increased“from 11.1% to 13.6%. During the same period, the proportion of population aged 85 years and over has more than doubled”. In the next two decades the number of people aged 80+ years in Australia will almost double again. 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