New York Guitar Show

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The New York Guitar Show (1986-1995) was a charity event created to sponsor the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children in Newark, New Jersey by Skip Henderson, a vintage guitar dealer (City Lights Music) from New Brunswick, New Jersey. The New York Guitar Show was an annual two-day production scheduled on the third weekend in September held at The Mary Help of Christians Church on E. 12th St. and Avenue A in New York City. During this period the New York Guitar Show was the only regularly scheduled vintage guitar event dedicated entirely to charity in the United States. The New York Guitar Show was also a venue for a Saturday night show which featured Nokie Edwards of the Ventures, Semie Moseley,Junior Brown, the Le Roi Brothers, Lonnie Pitchford, The Otis Brothers, and others. In 1996 production of the show was transferred to James Pasch (Hoboken Vintage Guitars) with the contractual stipulation that it remain a fund raising event for the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children.