The Air Guitar World Championships are once again open for participants. For the first time, winners of national championships around the world are flown in to take part in the main event, held in cooperation with the Oulu Music Video Festival. These seventh annual championships will span a period of two days.
The grand finale will take place in Kuusisaari, Oulu, Finland, on Friday 23 Aug.
The main prize: a real electric guitar.

If you're not convinced of your own talent: there's a training camp for only 120 € (and that is, since yesterday, more than $120). Included are lectures on topics such as 'Zen and the Art of Air Guitar' and 'How to Maintain your Instrument'.

Keep in mind that you'll have to play 2 songs: one that you choose yourself, and one compulsory. You are free to play either electric or acoustic, though.
White socks and boxer-shorts are optional. Tennis-rackets are forbidden.

The purpose of the festival: no less than promoting world peace.

Evening Standard, Monday, 15 March 1999
If New Orleans is the musical "Big Easy" and New York the "Big Apple",
then Oulu is the "Big Dewdrop", the mecca of airheads.