Michigan Air Guitar Exhibition
Experience the Michigan Air Guitar Exhibition (M.A.G.E.) in Hancock, Michigan during Juhannus — the only air guitar competition in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, featuring summer festivities, live entertainment, and legendary air-shredding glory.
To play — nay, to shred — a stringed instrument is a hallowed art form, but the truest and highest level of this art is not in the music borne into existence by skill and time-honed perfection... it is the sheer majesty of how well you can rock out with no instrument at all. The Finns, in their wise and mystical ways, knew this to be true and have long upheld the grand traditions of Air Guitar.
Wolf’s Head Film honors this spirit with the Michigan Air Guitar Exhibition in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula—the only air guitar competition in the UP and likely all of Michigan. Born from our love of cinema and spectacle (and a tendency to not take ourselves too seriously), this pairing of film and fury exists because, well… why is a movie nonprofit doing this? We just can’t help ourselves.
Movies, might, and magic collide in a midsummer celebration of Finnish heritage and unhinged stagecraft. Competitors from across the region are invited to prove their might on The Orpheum stage, vying for cash prizes, glory, and eternal air-shredding prestige. There is also hope to align with the official Air Guitar World Championships qualifying path to Oulu, Finland.
Musicians and mere mortals alike are welcome. The instrument is optional. The attitude is not.
