All Metro Guitar Day - April 26, 2026

Many beautiful moments this past All Metro Guitar Day at UMSL’s Touhill Performing Arts Center, which took place on Sunday, April 26, 2026. Thank you so much to local St. Louis photographer Theo R Welling for capturing these young guitarists in action!

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Guitar Horizons programming presents high-quality, classical guitar education in St. Louis schools that need it most. This past April, over 65 guitar students from across the region performed on stage together as a guitar orchestra and in small ensembles, a wondrous sight to see!

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All Metro Guitar Day and Guitar Horizons are grant funded programs with support from the Des Lee Fine Arts Education Collaborative , Augustine Strings Foundation, Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, and donors like you. Make a donation: https://www.stlclassicalguitar.org/donate

This video shows Larimore Elementary School (Hazelwood) guitar students who worked hard all year with SLCG teaching artist Shuqing Ma and their music teacher Ms. Larissa Young. They performed 'Dark Eyes' from the Austin Classical Guitar's GuitarCurriculum.com at this year's All-Metro Guitar Day on April 26, 2026.

Brian VaccaroMay 10, 2026