This PechaKucha will share stories from the midst of my PhD research journey, undertaking a place-based socially oriented narrative inquiry in my regional community. I am a researcher located in place, weaving multiple roles in the narrative inquiry space as a local music therapist, business owner, community musician and mother and grandmother. Relational ethics guide the ongoing dynamic process of sensemaking alongside research participants, composing multiple narratives from conversations, interactions and observations with diverse families, workers and spaces in place in order to better understand the experience of musicking for families with young children in our regional Australian context. Narrative inquiry methodology framed by relational ethics opens a space to consider how diverse families with young children may engage with the affordances of musicking as a health resource, and how music therapy is positioned in the evolving healthcare and societal context of our Australian regional, rural and remote spaces and places. This place-based study looking to the future, illuminating multiple narratives of musicking as a jumping off point for considering how Community Music Therapy is interwoven and intersects with this landscape, and how this could shape the future of the role of music therapy in regional, rural and remote Australia.