Tuscon’s US Air Guitar Qualifier on Main Stage at Guitar Festival

The following post is from Mitch Turbenson, promoter of the 2013 US Air Guitar Arizona Qualifier, taking place this Saturday in Tuscon.

With skills hiding in their hands, people from around Arizona will take the stage to show off their bodacious talents in Tucson’s first-ever US Air Guitar Competition on Saturday, June 15 at Park Place.

These rockers have just one minute to show off an outrageous stage performance and wicked “airness,” and with so many Tucsonians experiencing the madness for the first time, a kick-off event is most definitely in order. Enter now.

The competition takes place during the free-to-attend Park Place Guitar Festival, opening Friday, June 14 at 6 p.m. with Guitars and Growlers. The kick-off event features craft beer tasting, live music from musician Johnny Faber and food sampling from Park Place restaurants.

On Saturday, June 15 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Guitar Festival continues with the US Air Guitar Competition and a showcase of guitars and related themes through nearly 40 performances, exhibitions, instrument displays, workshops and recycled guitar creations.

US Air Guitar – The BIG Announcement

New Format Brings More Cities & Highest Caliber Talent Ever   Postseason Events Include Special Performances By World Champions Nordic Thunder & Hot Lixx Hulahan   NATIONAL FINALS August 17 At House Of Blues in Los Angeles   SEMIFINALS In Chicago, New York, San Francisco & Washington   DC QUALIFIERS Held In Over Twenty Cities Across America   World Champion Nordic Thunders Stars in Dr. Pepper TV Commercial

Shaping up to be our biggest year on record, US Air Guitar announces a new three-tiered elimination format to shoulder the nation’s overwhelming demand for competitive air guitar. From St Petersburg to Santa Cruz and everywhere in between, dozens of OFFICIAL QUAILFIER COMPETITONS held in over twenty cities across America will separate the air wheat from the air chaff. Only the finest and freshest will advance from their respective Qualifier into one of four U.S. SEMIFINALS, where the production value of each event promises to meet the level of talent.

Diane Cletus’ first-hand account of KC #usairguitar madness!

The following post is from current Denver champ Diane Cletus who judged the June 7, 2013 Kansas City US Air Guitar Qualifier. Judge Justin Kendall also wrote his own recap for The Pitch, which is totally worth reading.

“Truly, he is risen.” In a night that was sure to make a believer out of anybody, last Friday’s Kansas City Air Guitar Qualifying event ended by crowning a new king of kings. It was anybody’s game at the Record Bar last Friday night, and with twenty one entrants clamoring for the title, it’s a wonder no one was crucified in the process…well, maybe for an encore. As a 2012 regional champ, I had the privilege of judging the night’s festivities as Diane Cletus, along with local wiseacres Justin Kendall (The Pitch) and Paul Chandler (Alice 102), who were perfect gentlemen. And let me just say this: Kansas City knows how to show a girl a good time, ya’ll.

Flying Finn and MC Mean Melin and give the Kansas City crowd a little “Fire On High.”

US Air Guitar = Family: A San Francisco Qualifier Preview

The following post is from Tiger Claw, founder of the SFAirForce, an elite corps of the world’s best air guitarists.

SF Air Guitar. The force is strong with us. But we’re not just a community. We are family. Part of a bigger family that is US Air Guitar. I’ve been playing air guitar since 1979, and when it first came to San Francisco in 2006, I discovered just how many others feel the same love and passion for it.

Fast forward to 2010, when I started the SF AirForce, to bring the family closer together. Much to my surprise, air guitarists from around the country wanted to be a part of it. And I was happy to oblige. And it grew. Although we are 50 members strong, in 14 chapters, including two other countries, represented on the website, www.sfairforce.blogspot.com, it comes nowhere near the size of the actual family. And here’s why:

More pics from Chicago’s Qualifier

CHICAGO, IL — Bald-É just wikileaked a few grainy ones through the old fax machine (experience the entire Chicago qualifier Storify here):

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