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Practices are more than idle pastimes; they are a primary means through which human beings develop an understanding of what leads to a good life. Music teachers are thus ethical agents tasked with negotiating the norms of their chosen practice in order to ensure that all students have opportunity to grow and flourish in the way that only their practice allows. Hospitality offers ethical and pedagogic insight into the problems and potentials of such practices. I utilize the terms and affordances of hospitality as the epistemological, methodological, and analytic frameworks for a case study of the Eastside Middle School band program (EMS) (a pseudonym). I spent 33 days across the spring semester of 2016 getting to know the students and teachers at EMS. Data were generated through participant observation during classes and events, individual interviews with 31 students and all three teachers, focus groups with students and teachers, and by gathering key elements of material culture. Key insights include the complexity of structural forces that influence daily life, the wide ranging goods to which students gained access through participation, the intersectional nature of how students are welcomed into and through the program, and the disconnect between the stated ends of the practice and the goods and ends that were realized in students’ daily lives. I conclude that hospitality should be thought of not only as a poststructural ethic that privileges an unconditional welcome of the unknowable guest, but also as a tripartite Aristotelian virtue. The virtue of hospitality charts a middle way between a welcome that requires complete assimilation of the guest to the norms of the space, and a welcome that is so open that the structure of the practice itself dissolves and denies the guest access to the unique goods that only this practice could provide. 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