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    THE MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW 2019

    Oct 10, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS AND PHOTOS BY PETER HODGSON.

    The Melbourne Guitar Show has quickly established itself as an essential focal point of Australia’s guitar community. For two days, guitarists and industry converge at Caulfield Racecourse (the building, not the race track itself) for exhibitions, performances, demos, clinics, special appearances and Australia’s biggest pop-up music store. Everything you see on the floor is for sale on the day, and a lot of guitar players leave the show with new toys to play with.

    I, your intrepid Australian Guitar reporter, am fortunate to have been a part of the show in some capacity for every year of its existence; first as a performer and panelist, then as a masterclass performer and, for the last few years, host of

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