2017 – AIR GUITAR CANADA

2017 CANADIAN AIR GUITAR CHAMP: THE PHOENIX!

July 17, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

SHE RISES!!! The First-Ever Female Air Guitar Canada Champion

Gen ‘The Phoenix’ Leblanc solidly wins the Canadian Championships and will be representing our country on Aug. 25th at the Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland!

A longer more elaborate post is coming soon, but until then, here is The Phoenix in action to tide you over.

Thanks to our sponsors Collective Arts Brewing and Panago Pizza for the support.

Right to Play is our charitable beneficiary.

Photos by Culture Snap Photography.

Air Guitarist

DARK HORSE SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE!

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

YOUR LAST CHANCE TO WIN THAT TRIP OF A LIFETIME TO FINLAND

What does it mean to be a Dark Horse? Let’s say you didn’t qualify for the championships from one of our nine regional competitions. This would be your last opportunity to put yourself in competition. Depending on the number of Dark Horses, you have a good chance to take one of the few remaining places and maybe just maybe win that Trip to Finland to represent Canada at the 2017 Air Guitar World Championships.

What do you have to do?

Come up with a stage persona or stage name.
Choose or assemble 1min of music to rock out to. Then find one more 1min of music to use in the championship round should you move on.
Register on our Website takes 1 min to complete.
Tell your posse to come cheer you on and help us make a great donation to our charity Right To Play.

Competitors receive free entry, 2 complimentary beers from Collective Arts.

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Judges

Nothing Sheepish about this Judge: RYAN GULLEN of the…

May 10, 2017May 10, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

I Don’t Know about you, but i’m Feeling Good about this Bad Lieutenant joining our panel of judges.

A big warm welcome to Ryan Gullen of Canadian rock icons The Sheepdogs who joins us for the Air Guitar Toronto Championships this Saturday, May 13th at the Drake Underground.

As you can tell by his epic profile picture. He is perhaps uniquely suited to judge an air guitar competition or pose for awkward family photos. The way he lovingly cradles his bass gives you the impression that he’ll go easy on the Toronto hopefuls.

Ryan will join Red Thor and other judges (to be announced) as they toss up the scores and help us find our 2017 Toronto Champ!

Isn’t this another great reason to sign up and compete!?

And then tell all your friends to come and watch you play Air Guitar in front of Ryan Gullen?

They can buy their tickets HERE

Check out Ryan’s Collective Arts Beer chugging skills in this fine video-

Ottawa

OTTAWA 2017 PRIZING ANNOUNCEMENT!

April 27, 2017April 27, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

MAN, OH MAN… THE CAPITAL OF GOODIES!

As we near the third annual Air Guitar Ottawa Championships at the House of Targ on May 6th, we felt it important to let everyone know what riches were on the line and ready to be won. Thanks to Sandy ‘Freak-a-chu’ Gibson, we’ve got a bevy of treasures for our Air Guitarists to walk away with for the mere act of 1-minute of gyration and galavanting. It’s a small way of saying thanks for taking part and helping us raise the coin for our charity Right To Play Canada.

Here’s the run down:

You don’t win something like this until you win the whole she-bang in Toronto

1ST PLACE:

Trip to Toronto for Nationals. Hotel for July 15th. Low Cost Travel. Collective Arts Prize Pack. Ottawa Championship Title. Infamy.

2ND PLACE:

Panago Pizza Night Gift Certificates. Get your Pizza ‘on’ thanks to the generous za-masters at Panago. Vice-champion title. Invitation to compete at Nationals.

3RD PLACE:

Mayfair Movie mayhem. Passes and popcorn to fill your gut. If you are lucky they might still be playing Kong: Skull Island

4TH PLACE:

Industrial Italian Brasserie Gift Certificate. Get productive, nay industrious with your gourmet Italian grub.

5TH PLACE:

Black Squirrel Books & Espresso Gift Certificate. For all your high-octane coffee needs and bookish moments.

NEW this year – the DUETS PRIZE:

Due to the popular demand to have a wing man/woman for the ridiculousness of Air Guitar – we have added a new round of competition called the DUETS ROUND. Find your drunkest friend and take them on stage with you and perform from any one of our pre-selected tracks. You can win the highly coveted Twin Mugs prize from the Mud Oven. NOTE: this is not an official entry into the competition… it’s like a side bet.

AUDIENCE PRIZE:

As with all years, the audience gets to choose which song the Air Guitarist have to perform to in the 2nd round. Audience are give the opportunity to ‘Boost The Ballot’ for their choice by making an extra donation to the charity. For every ballot boosted is a chance to draw the Audience Appreciation prize: Guest Passes to Cineplex Landsdowne. So be sure to vote with a donation to Right To Play for the song you want to hear like 5-7 times that night as each competitor will perform to it in the second round.

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS YET?

WANNA PLAY? – REGISTER HERE

Don’t forget…

Judges

This Ottawa Judge is In Heat – Joady MacIntosh

April 27, 2017April 27, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

ANNOUNCING OUR 2017 PANEL OF OTTAWA JUDGES!
Join us in a warm welcome to our first Ottawa judge – one of TARG’s very own – Joady MacIntosh, AKA. Lexxi Splitlip from Ottawa Punk Rock and Rollers IN HEAT.

We are thrilled to have Joady sit at the table of our jury and put up some tallies for all the competitors who will be rocking like mad-people for 1-minute of Air Guitar on May 6th at the House of Targ.

It’s not too late to enter and be judged by our friendly panel of music experts.

More about Joady!

Born the second of four sons to a lumberyard foreman and a surgical RN in Miramichi NB, Joady MacIntosh had no shortage of imagination nor outlets to express it. After some formative years in theatrical performance and dominating the mall lip sync circuit, he came to the Capital city to form Busboyeez in the fall of 1999.

Although he had seemingly always written and preformed song acoustically, he has now gravitated to the role of the frontman. So too is his current obsession with rock n rollers IN HEAT, who have delighted audiences of punks, rockers and metal maniacs alike, as he dons the trashy garb of one Lexxi Splitlip performing lead vocals – forever referring back to his original form of self-critique: lip syncing in the mirror.

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Air Guitar Canada is a Not for Profit Organization rocking out for world peace and helping children facing adversity. We are the official Canadian licensee of the World Air Guitar Championships – our Canadian champion will win a trip to Finland, the home of Air Guitar, to face off against the world’s best.

We donate the proceeds of our events to Right To Play, a charity dedicated to using sport and play to educate and empower children and youth to overcome the effects of poverty, conflict, and disease in disadvantaged communities world-wide.