Air Guitar World Championships
20.-22.8.2025 Oulu, Finland
Air guitar playing in a competitive sense is almost a year-round activity, and the competition network extends to several continents.
Licensed National Championships are organized all over the world: each country sorts out the best of their air guitarists in their own competitions. Only the official National Champions and the defending World Champion go directly to the World Final.
National Championships are held on both a hobby and a business basis, for the love of the sport in each case. Competition organizers will get instruction, visibility and contacts from the Oulu Headquarters.
Air Guitar World Championships is an internationally registered trademark, and the network operating under it acts in accordance with a peaceful ideology and common rules.
Please contact us if you’re interested in organizing competitions or cooperating with national competition organizations.
If you’re interested in taking part in the National Championships in your country, please contact the organizer: see each organizer’s contact info below by clicking the appropriate flag.
Can’t find a national competition near you? The chance to get a spot on world final stage is the Dark Horses competition in Oulu, Finland, a day before the final.
Air Guitar Australia’s mission is to form a community of amazing airheads and to find Australia’s greatest Air Guitarist to send to Oulu to take on the world at the Air Guitar World Championships! We encourage all Aussies, new and old, from all walks of life, to take part, and we believe strongly in equality, diversity and a level playing field for all. The only thing we judge at Air Guitar Australia is how well you play your air guitar!
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Get ready for Belgian spirit! The Belgian Air Guitar federation has produced some incredible shows in some of the biggest festivals in the country that are still remembered.
In Brussels, on the 27th of June, Dirty Beaujolais was crowned as the Belgian Air Guitar Champion 2024 – for the second time in a row! He’ll be traveling to Oulu, and will compete on the World Championships final stage as the Belgium’s National Champion!
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Canada is back!
The Canadian Champion was crowned at The Velvet Underground in Toronto on Saturday May the 25th.
The event also successfully managed to raise money for their charity partner Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund.
Ichabod Fame will represent Canada at the World Championships in Oulu, as the first Canadian Champion since 2019!
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Finally the Finnish Nationals of Air Guitar are coming 2024. The Finnish Nationals will take place at Workers’ Music Festival, Valkeakoski, on Saturday July 27, 2024.
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Työväen musiikkitapahtuma (Workers’ Music Festival)
The French Air Guitar scene has grown remarkably in the past few years. You can enjoy the competitions touring around the country from January until the finals on August 10, 2024.
KIOSQN’ROCK festival in Mirande hosts the French Air Guitar Championships. The French National Champion will be chosen on the last day of the festival.
Inquiries (in French) kiosqnrock@gmail.com
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Germany has sent so many quality air guitarists to Oulu during the past decades.
The German Championships were held in Munich on Saturday, July the 20th. Patrick “Ehrwolf” Culek was crowned as the German Air Guitar Champion, and he’ll be traveling to Oulu in August!
Air Guitar Germany is arraged by Backstage
Meet the Irish Air Guitar Champion 2024 at world stage in Oulu.
The Irish champion Phillip Ryan was crowned on the 16th of April in An Brog, Cork.
The 2024 US Air Guitar Nationals were held in Cleveland on Saturday the 20th of July, where Cole “Slappy Nuts” Lindhbergh was crowned as the new national champion!
USA is a dedicated and active Air Guitar country, which holds the record of most World Championships won all time.
“US Air Guitar is devoted to taking our nation’s unofficial pastime out of the bedroom and putting it up on the national and world stage. Since beginning in 2003, The US Air Guitar Championships have grown into a major national event with dozens of regional competitions leading up to the National Finals, which take place in a different city every year.”
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