Community Records L3C (CRL3C) is a social mission organization that builds local community, inspiring and creating relationships by bringing together diverse populations through collaborative participation in music & music education.

Our organization does three things: 1) Consulting 2) Songwriting Workshops and 3) Recording

We are accumulating a growing expertise in creativity, idea generation, community building, community involvement, and diversity. Music (and related arts) serve as an ideal tool for accomplishing these goals. Our work embraces the collaborative creative process by using the arts to facilitate teamwork, openness and the emergence of new ideas. Our job is to help all individuals feel a part of the group and make sure everyone's voice is included, understanding that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This ensures a process and product that everyone can get behind, whether it be a song or a strategic plan. We are a facilitator, supporter, and catalyst in the community for building community through the arts, keeping in mind that youth are central to community growth and development.

Community Records L3C is committed to the inclusion of all populations including those of different gender, race, class, economic status, ethnic background, sexual orientation, age, physical ability, and cultural and religious backgrounds.

Contact Us
Community Records L3C
P.O. Box 980225
Ypsilanti, MI 48198

734.985.0127
info@crl3c.org

We are a provider of alternative arts education in the local schools. Everything we do is with the flair of building community, diversity, creativity, and musicality. Additionally, we have years of experience bringing youth voice to the table.

CRL3C has partnered with Bright Futures, a 21st CCLC after school program, based at Eastern Michigan University for the past three years. CRL3C serves youth, grades two through twelve, with its songwriting workshops in Ypsilanti, Willow Run and Wayne-Westland school districts. Our songwriting programs have also run at West Village Academy and The Dearborn Academy in Dearborn, MI, partnering with S.T.A.R. after school program, also a 21st CCLC-funded group. At these sites, students are coached through the collaborative songwriting process by experienced youth workers who have expertise in hip hop and other musical genres.

This summer, CRL3C partnered with the B.Side of Youth for their B.Side of A(rt) program, building relationships with area teenagers as we recorded a 9-song original CD by the Life Crew. The Life Crew performed at our annual summer Backyard Bash, a community-building event billed as a showcase for diverse area musicians. Two of the students from the Life Crew currently intern with us, helping with our after school songwriting programs. CRL3C also ran a teen songwriting workshop this year at the Ypsilanti District Library's Ypsilanti Songwriting Festival.