This annual festival brings guitarists from all over the world to venues across the Chicagoland area. Expose yourself to a variety of traditional and contemporary guitar styles, including folk, jazz, acoustic, classical, flamenco, roots, blues, Brazilian and Spanish. The festival kicks off with a recital by Serbian-born classical guitar star Petar Jankovic, who currently teaches at Indiana University.

Recorded Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the Instituto Cervantes.