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HAPPENINGS AT GUITAR HOUSE WORKSHOP
October 20, 2025
Over the years our customers have shown us that Guitar House Workshop is not just a music store. It’s a community of people who care about making music, about sharing their music, and about each other. We recognize that the independent neighborhood music store is a “dying breed”. But we are very much alive, due in a large part to the loyalty and support of our customers. Without your support, we would not have survived the COVID years. Now 16+ years in, we count ourselves extremely fortunate to still be here, helping people find the right instruments, accessories, teachers and repairs to keep the music flowing in all of our lives. This page includes some old photos from our previous website, and going forward will celebrate more moments spent together at the shop.
Banjo Improvisation Workshop
GHW instructor Gary Puckett leads the ever popular “Turtle Jam” class, a 6 Saturday session of practice jams, allowing fretted instrument students to experience playing music with others in a safe, judgement free space. Sometimes the class renames itself a “possum jam” depending on the tempo the class settles into as a whole. The class is ALWAYS fun and even if you don’t know anyone on week 1 , we can promise you that you will know most everyone by week 3.
BUT THIS WORKSHOP CLASS is something a little different. Gary will teach an introductory 2 week session on banjo improvisation. If you have been playing banjo for a bit and want to understand a little more about how music is put together- how YOU might make your own music-this might be the class for you.
Where: Guitar House Workshop When: November 8 & 15, 2025. 5:15 pm-6:45pm RSVP required to save your seat! 614-488-2477 Limited class size $50
2024 marks the return of “Feed The People, Feed The Soul”, a Guitar House Workshop sponsored concert benefitting the work of SSCM Food Pantry. An all volunteer 501c3 organization, SSCM provides a three day emergency supply of groceries to central Ohio families in need. Guitar House Workshop has proudly supported SSCM’s work in a multitude of ways for over a decade including benefit events, proceeds from customer donated instrument sales, monetary donations from customers and the shop, and a GHW team of workers who help unload a delivery truck each month.
This year’s concert, previously scheduled for Friday May 17th, 2024, was moved to Sunday May 19th due to a rainy weather forcast. The concert will feature John Bolzenius and his Columbus Soul and Salvage bandmates Justin Molenaur, Bernard Wilburn, Aaron Minnick, Kevin Cardoso, Rick Carleski, and David Leytze. Our pavilion, built with the help of our customers, is our outdoor classroom and on rare occasions (like this one) doubles as a performance space. Bring lawn chairs or a blanket and find yourself the perfect spot to groove in your seat or dance the the night away. This is a FUN night for adults and also family friendly for kiddos.
The shop is hosting a simple picnic from 4-5 and Columbus Soul and Salvage will be playing classic R&B soul songs for your enjoyment from 5-7. We’ll pass a hat a few times during the concert, when you can donate what feels right to you. The band is hot, the company will be good, and the cause is grand- three fine reasons to join us at the pavilion SUNDAY, May 19th.
Each $1 placed in the hat allows SSCM to purchase just under $6 worth of groceries from the MidOhio Food Bank. And every dollar donated at the concert will be used to help families in need. SCCM is an all-volunteer organization that has been serving the community since the 1970s.
Blue Moon Jam/Picnic 2021
MAY, 2024 UPDATE: The peach tree and cherry tree weathered our Spring frosts just fine. Both are setting fruit, along with our baby apple trees, raspberry bushes and strawberries. The vegetable garden is just beginning to take shape. And this year we will be installing a bit of garden art just for fun. Come sit a bit under the grapes and see what Mother Nature is offering up for us this season!
Guitar House Workshop’s Garden
Built with the help of the GHW community during COVID as a safe place to gather.
The Pavilion Project!
THANKS TO ALL who participated in the 2022 Student Recital/Picnic
Sorry- we lost the photos! They must have melted. It was pretty hot that day!
The tradition lives on! Feed the People, Feed the Soul 2025 was a wonderful celebration for a great cause. Featuring the shop’s own Alice Coneglio and Columbus Soul and Salvage, concert goers donated nearly $3000 to the SSCM food pantry. Sponsored by the shop, with raffle prize tickets kindly provided by Six String Concerts, a good time was had by all.
John working on a custom inlayed neck
This custom inlay, designed by Linda, and constructed by John in 2010 - the early years of Guitar House Workshop.