Leh has been playing music since her early teen years at some of the first years of Jam Camp. She has grown from a world travelling busker finding gigs wherever she could, to a Montreal based folk musician and activist.

Leh works hard to open up spaces for folks to engage with music who don’t always feel encouraged to do so. She runs monthly shows for women and trans folks, sings and writes with a feminist choir and writes and performs with her dark-country band. She also facilitates song writing workshops in French and English for blooming activists. She has worked with Rock Camp for Girls Montreal teaching electric guitar.

Her focus these days is writing sad country songs and picking old folk tunes on her banjo.

Cari has complemented her formal education (McGill University -- Montreal - Bachelor of Music in Opera Performance, London's prestigious Royal Academy of Music, Master's in Voice Performance and Voice Teacher Licenciate), studied a varied repertoire with a focus on new music and composers Mahler, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Britten. With further independent studies, Cari has over twenty years of professional music training and a deep framework in Vocal Improvisation (studying with Rhiannon -- Hawaii, 15 + years), Pedagogy (studied with Par Ahlom- Sweden, 12+ years), Musical Theatre experience and many years of study in the Alexander Technique. As a teacher specializing in voice, these components add an integral understanding of health and movement as they relate to the freedom of vocal expression and assist in fostering a healthy voice. Cari provides her students with an exceptional solid education.

As an accomplished mezzo-soprano, Cari delivers a vibrant fusion of classical pop, folk, jazz, opera and art song sung in English, French, Italian, Swedish, German, Russian and has performed and taught across North America, Europe and China. Internationally, played Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress," performed in London UK; attracted star reviews for her operatic roles of Monteverdi and Handel; giving world premieres of new works, notably Shouts for Herodias: a Melodramatic Scena for solo voice, by Thomas Hyde; worked with composer and director Heiner Goebbels (contemporary music and theatre scene); part of her Performance degree collaborated Avant-Garde new music with composers; coached by world famous, Dame Kiri De Tekanawa; now is integrating more crossover music theater cabaret and contemporary pop. In 2008 Eckhardt-Gramatte Competition, was a semi-finalist.

Cari has sung with the Sooke Philharmonic, the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, the Cowichan Consort and Salt Spring Island's "Bach on the Rocks"; performed various classical Handel Messiah and Bach Christmas Oratorios on Vancouver Island as well as premiered new orchestral song arrangements from her 'Magnolia' album. 'Magnolia' was released in 2015, received nomination for World Album by Western Canada Music Awards (WCMA) and Cari awarded 'Vocalist of the Year' 2016 by Vancouver Island Music Awards (VIMA) is also heard regularly on CBC radio play.

Based on Vancouver Island, Cari actively performs, tours self-produced works, songwriter, produces shows, teaches and is Director of Lila Music Centre located in Duncan. In October 2017 joined Victoria Conservatory of Music as a voice teacher, and is the first faculty member to have a firm foothold in both the School of Contemporary Music and the Classical Music School departments.

Esther has been with Jam Camp since the very beginning, starting as a wee participant in 2003 and over the years volunteering and facilitating by teaching poi, leading song writing groups and teaching workshops. She can now be seen wandering camps with a manager’s clip board in hand, making sure people follow the rules. Esther loves everything to do with Jam Camp and is so happy that she can take on a bigger role in something that has been such a huge part of her life for so long.

During her real life, away from the dreamy summer Jam Camp weeks, she can be found in North Vancouver wandering the woods with her dog, working on her massage business and doing her best to help the powers that be organize upcoming Jam Camps.