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Kay Eskenazi has been playing guitar since she was eight -- that was 42 years ago. She plays many different fingerstyle guitar forms in regular and non-standard tunings. In recent years, Kay has spent much of her time creating chord melody arrangements in Bossa Nova, Swing Jazz, Folk, Sephardic and other styles. She loves to play Brazilian jazz -- especially the music of Luiz Bonfa, Laurindo Almeida, João Gilberto, Carlos Barbosa-Lima and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Kay has studied with many fine teachers, and continues her studies at every opportunity. She is a founder and director of From Women's Hearts and Hands Music Camps.

Kay loves to teach guitar! When she's not at camp, she teaches guitar lessons and directs the Good Life Guitar Ensemble.

Kay is also founder and director of Pass It Around! , a non-profit organization that uses group singing to support homeless and other disadvantaged people. She has been collecting and teaching rounds for 21 years, and has just published Pass It Around! Rounds from the Soul of a World -- a collection of rounds and a capella harmony songs from many lands and centuries.
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Harmony Grisman has been teaching guitar for over twenty years. She learned the blues and gospel style fingerpicking from Reverand Gary Davis, Stefan Grossman and Big Bill Broonzy. Her guitar playing includes everything from Appalachia to Swing. Harmony is a founder and director of From Women's Hearts and Hands Music Camps.

Since 1966, Harmony has been playing an old Martin named Gertrude. (Gertrude's soundhole is pictured to the right.) Gertrude is a small bodied, twelve fret guitar with Rosewood back and sides and an Adirondack Spruce top. The abalone inlays are real shell.

Harmony's recordings include Chants of a Lifetime and Medicine Song Revival. She is founder and director of the Tomales Bay Women's Chorus and director of the Expressive Arts program and Camp Sunburst for families affected by HIV.
Gertrude's Soundhole
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