Air Guitar World Championships

Air Guitar World Championships (AGWC) is an annual event taking place in Oulu, Finland.

The idea of having Air Guitar World Championships was generated by musician Jukka Takalo [fi].

[2] One year, Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen, donated a VOX BM Special amplifier for the winner.

In 2021, the countries in the official AGWC network are USA, Iceland, UK, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Thailand, Australia, Belgium, Poland, Chile and Taiwan.

According to the competition ideology, "wars will end, climate change will stop and all bad things will vanish when all the people in the world play the air guitar.

Nanami "Seven Seas" Nagura, Japan. Air Guitar World Championships final in Oulu, Finland. Photo: Juuso Haarala
Crowd and media at the AGWC final. Photo: Juuso Haarala