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At each camp, we assemble a staff of  experienced, caring, teachers committed to helping you find your unique voice on the guitar. They are performers, recording artists, song writers, arrangers and experts in special styles. Guitar is at the center of our teachers' lives and they love to share their passion for playing, and their skills. To find out who is teaching at the camp you want to attend, please email us.

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	Kay Eskenazi (Camp Co-Director) has been playing guitar since she was eight -- that was 45 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 music making to support homeless and other disadvantaged people. She has been collecting and teaching rounds for 22 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.