McCabe's Guitar Shop

McCabe's Guitar Shop is a Santa Monica musical instrument store, concert venue, repair shop, and music school that has been open since 1958. The shop carries stringed instruments including guitars, ukuleles, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers, fiddles, bouzoukis, sitars, and ouds, and hosts live folk, bluegrass, Americana, and world music concerts in a 150-seat intimate venue; private and group lessons are offered for all ages and abilities. McCabe's has been open since 1958 and has hosted concerts since its first impromptu show in 1968, teaching tens of thousands of musicians over the years. Located at 3101 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, California; customers have traveled from as far as Torrance to attend lessons and shows. Reviewers describe McCabe's as a historically significant, acoustically well-designed venue where staff are knowledgeable and trusted for repairs, and where concerts ranging from established artists to emerging talent have drawn loyal attendees for over 40 years.