McCabe's Guitar Shop

McCabe's Guitar Shop is a musical instrument store and live music venue on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California. Opened in 1958, McCabe's specializes in acoustic and folk instruments, including guitars, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers, fiddles, ukuleles, psaltries, bouzoukis, sitars, ouds, and ethnic percussion. Since 1969, McCabe's has also been a noted forum for folk concerts.

The decor at McCabe's is stripped down, with concerts being given in a back room with folding chairs and walls covered with vintage guitars, banjos, ukuleles and other instruments. A poll by LA Observed rated McCabe's as one of the 32 greatest things about Los Angeles. In The Guide prepared by The Los Angeles Times, McCabe's is described as "an achingly intimate room" with a "bare-bones setting" featuring "the best guitar music west of the 405 Freeway."The Guide continues: "Legends, traveling minstrels and local talent -- they all seem to pass through McCabe's at some point. They may be there to get their guitars fixed; the club has a day job as one of the oldest stringed instrument stores in the city."Frommer's describes the McCabe's experience as "intimate in the extreme; the gig would have to be in your living room to get any cozier." The Metromix guide to Los Angeles calls McCabe's "a mild-mannered guitar/stringed instrument shop by day" that "opens up as a world-class concert venue by night." At full capacity the concert room holds 150.

McCabe's is owned by Robert and Esperanza Riskin. Robert is the son of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin (screenwriter of "It Happened One Night.)"

The list of past performers includes some of the genre's finest musicians, including:

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