Air Guitar Judge – AIR GUITAR CANADA

Felworth’s ‘Cozy Balboa’ To Judge Air Guitar Championships

July 13, 2017July 13, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

” I can’t think of a better air guitar judge than a drumming monkey puppet!”

After making a splash at the Juno’s in March, Cozy Balboa, the drummer puppet from Feltworth, will be taking a seat at the Nationals to find our Canadian champion of Air Guitar.

Feltworth used to play for kids, but they don’t do that anymore. Now they are rocking out for adults.

Check out the CBC Radio interview

When we asked Cozy about being part of the fun – he said: “Cozy will be there and ready to party! We’re not sure if he always refers to himself in the third person? Or which Collective Arts beer he likes best? But we will for sure be finding out on July 15th – MOD Club. The 2017 Canadian Air Guitar Championships.

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COOL AND COLLECTIVE: OUR FINAL JUDGE – KYLE WILSON!

May 13, 2017May 30, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE PROVIDER OF SWEET GOLDEN GOODNESS – THE OG CURATOR OF COLLECTIVE ARTS BREWING – THE DREAMY DRUMMER BOY BA RATATA TUM!

Kyle Wilson is our fifth and final judge to join the panel and drop some hot scores for the hopefuls tonight at the Drake Underground for the Toronto Air Guitar Championships. Competitors will wield their invisible guitars for one minute of mind-bending solos and unbridled savagery to earn the title of Toronto’s 2017 Air Guitar Champion!

On top of being a rad dude, Kyle has a rich resume as a musician and friend of the music scene. He grew up touring with his parents’ folk band The Entertainers. Kyle has shared the stage with members of: Broken Social Scene, The Arkells, Billy Talent, k-os, Sheepdogs, Hollerado, Pup, Alvvays and more. His current project gets him using all the tools in the tool-kit as a multi-instrumentalist in local band The Order of Good Cheer.

The OG of Collective Arts, been with them since day one, Kyle is why we have some sweet suds to satiate our thirst. Be sure to high five the man when you see him.

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She’s Experienced – Toronto’s Rising Star JOAN SMITH

May 12, 2017May 12, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

FOUR-TIME AIR GUITAR JUDGE JOAN SMITH OF LITTLE FOOT LONG FOOT TO ROUND OUT OUR JURY

Joany’s back and your gonna be in trouble… hey nah hey nah. You won’t ACTUALLY be in trouble, but you will be asked to step up your Air Guitar game a tad. On top of being a 4-time Air Guitar Canada judge who has seen dozens and dozens of competitors, she is also an insane ‘REAL’ guitar player. Joan is touring this summer playing guitar for Serena Ryder in support of her new album ‘Utopia’. She fronts the amazing Little Foot Long Foot (they have a show at Lee’s Palace on May 26th). She rocks out hard in her two piece audio assault called Muskadaza (they play at the Garrison on June 9th). Oh ya… and she also fills in for Robert Plant in a Led Zeppelin cover band – called RED Zeppelin She kinda does it all.

So be sure to bring your A-game on Saturday, cuz Joany’s back.

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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?

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

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Ottawa Judge! Ottawa Radio Host and DJ – Chelsea…

May 5, 2017May 5, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

UNICORNS? Why not Air Guitar?

According to Twitter, Chelsea Miller, the popular Ottawa Radio DJ and Mid-Morning host is into: Radio. Giraffes. Unicorns. Ceebs. Giggles. Family. White Owls. and Sports. It’s an impressive list. We are excited to add Air Guitar Judge to it. Let’s give Chelsea a warm welcome to the madness that is competitive mime. We can’t wait to hear her radio-voice peep back some missives to our competitors as she tosses up the scores and helps us find our 2017 Ottawa Champ!

See you all at the House of Targ on Saturday May 6th!

Still time to sign up to compete (or just show up and rock)

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KRISTINE SHADID IS MAKING IT UP AS SHE GOES…

May 3, 2017May 4, 2017
by glenairyglenrocks

IMPROV JUDGE AT AN AIR GUITAR SHOW?? INSANITY!

Welcome back to Kristine Shadid, our 3rd judge and local improv and musical comedian. She’s been studying, performing and teaching improv since 2007 and is a current member of the local troupe Crush Improv. She has performed at different improv festivals nearby (Ottawa Improv Festival, Ottawa; Combustion Festival, Toronto; Big City Improv Festival, Toronto; MPROV Festival, Montreal). Her other pet project is her comedy duo band, Rhythm and Burgundy, that she co-created with her best friend Allison Harris. They’ve performed all around Ottawa and Toronto and will be back at this year’s Ottawa Fringe Festival with the appropriately named show called ‘THE COMEBACK TOUR’.

Kristine is a perfect to fit to judge the competition this Saturday because the second round (where champions are made) is highly improvised. The competitors only find out what song they perform to after the audience decides after voting by ballot that evening. We hope that Kristine is ready for the next level improv. She tells us she is very excited to watch people shred air, as it is the only instrument she genuinely knows how to play. And by instrument she means cheese grater.

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See ya at Targ on Saturday!

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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.

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JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT: What Shines Like A Diamond and Bleeds…

July 14, 2016
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Announcing our new member of the jury: Sara Elizabeth of the Bloody Diamonds

We are thrilled to welcome Toronto’s Sara Elizabeth of the Bloody Diamonds to our jury of judges for the Canadian Air Guitar Championships on July 16th at the Mod Club.

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At Air Guitar Canada, we have the responsibility to recruit a balanced field of celebrities to put up the scores at our events. We want people who understand what it means to entertain a crowd. People who can appreciate the art form of performance. People who will say funny or deep shit after they watch someone totally nail a routine. We know we struck gold… nay… diamond, when we lucked out with getting Sara to join us this weekend. Here’s her bio:

Sara is the lead singer in Toronto-based heavy rock band Bloody Diamonds. The band has done multiple tours throughout North America with their hard-hitting live show and just released a new EP titled “Tough Love”. Sara is no stranger to rock n’ roll!

Here’s her awesome shit:

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JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT – RUDY BLAIR – MUSIC INDUSTRY DATABASE

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016
by glenairyglenrocks

ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA WIZARD TO PICK US A WINNER

Was it luck or was it kismet? They might both mean the same thing, but we know one thing for sure… scoring Rudy Blair, the man with 30 years of music industry reporting experience, to be on on our judges panel for July 16th – this is good fortune.

Here’s Rudy’s Bio… Reads a bit like High Fidelity:

Rudy Blair has been part of this industry(Radio/Television/Mc/Host/Speaker)for almost 30 years. Twenty-three of those years were with 680News as the Music & Entertainment Reporter. During that time he interviewed some of the biggest artists in music, including Robert Palmer (pictured above), Beyonce, Jay Z, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Lorde, Gordon Lightfoot, Tony Bennett and Tim McGraw and covered major events, such as The Grammys, Junos, Much Music Video Awards, The Canadian Screen Award and Canada’s Walk Of Fame. Rudy has been honoured with 16 Radio-Television News Directors Association National and Regional Awards, The Harry Jerome Award, and been inducted into the Humber College Radio Broadcasting Hall Of Fame, The Vaughan Road Academy Hall of Fame and received an Honorary Degree from Humber College. With his new website Rudy Blair Entertainment Media rudyblairmedia.com, he continues to promote music acts of the future, as well as cover events, chat with stars of the stage, movies, sports, politics and the everyday person who has an interesting story.

HERE IS THE RECENT INTERVIEW HE PUBLISHED ABOUT THE CHAMPIONSHIPS COMING UP ON SAT. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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EDGE 102.1 ADAM RICARD TO DRIVE THE SCORES HOME

July 11, 2016July 11, 2016
by glenairyglenrocks

JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT 102.1

Freakin’ tickled to welcome The Edge 102.1′s Adam Ricard back for his second year of Air Guitar jury action. Adam judged for the first time last year and reported to have lost his mind. The competitors are promising to mess him up again in 2016.

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Using the antiquated figure skating scoring system of 4.0 to 6.0, Adam will be throwing down the scores for our largest ever field of competitors.

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We still have a few remaining spots on the Dark Horse list. One night of Air Guitar can win you a paid flight to Finland. You get some pilsners to help you along. Speaking of beer. Check this out – Adam and our beloved sponsor Steam Whistle. Can you believe we never knew this video even existed? You really can’t plan this sort of thing…

Huge thanks to Adam for Year 2, for his on-air plugs, and ongoing badassery on the Edge. He’s the man to listen to on your ride home.

PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE PROVIDER OF SWEET GOLDEN GOODNESS – THE OG CURATOR OF COLLECTIVE ARTS BREWING – THE DREAMY DRUMMER BOY BA RATATA TUM!

FOUR-TIME AIR GUITAR JUDGE JOAN SMITH OF LITTLE FOOT LONG FOOT TO ROUND OUT OUR JURY

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

UNICORNS? Why not Air Guitar?

IMPROV JUDGE AT AN AIR GUITAR SHOW?? INSANITY!

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.

Announcing our new member of the jury: Sara Elizabeth of the Bloody Diamonds

ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA WIZARD TO PICK US A WINNER

HERE IS THE RECENT INTERVIEW HE PUBLISHED ABOUT THE CHAMPIONSHIPS COMING UP ON SAT. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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JUDGE ANNOUNCEMENT 102.1

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.