About Macheis Wind

Macheis Wind is an award-winning musician, advocate and author, and the founder and director of the nonprofit organization, Guitar Tree. He has spent more than two decades dedicated to bringing the healing power of music to children and adults in domestic violence safe houses, homeless shelters, residential facilities for at-risk youth, a maximum security women’s prison and many other venues where trauma and emotional pain are intense and ever present – what he calls the “hidden worlds.” Macheis has developed many creative approaches to enhancing healing and empowerment in these volatile and complex settings. Often, he will create songs out of client’s lives and stories that are beautiful and powerful. He has written about this work in his new book, More Than This: Music, Healing and the Triumph Over Violence.