Avenue Guitar School

24/07/2026

Great Classical Guitar Duo - Slava & Leonard Grigoryan playing at St Lukes
In Toowoomba Saturday night 25Jul26

‘Amistad’ is the most recent release from acclaimed guitar duo, the Grigoryan Brothers. With a repertoire spanning centuries, continents, and...

05/07/2024

Here's a great show coming up at the empire on Friday 20th July.
Cello player and composer, Ilse de Ziah performing part of the show with the excellent Australian guitarist Ian Date.
A great opportunity to hear Celtic music and more arranged for Cello and Guitar.

A journey of cello player and composer Ilse de Ziah around Ireland in a search for undiscovered secrets of ten Irish Airs.

24/04/2024

Guitarists that make me smile!
Dickey Betts' life was complete at the age of 80 on the 18th April this year. One of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band. He played with seamless melodic ideas and composed the great instrumentals; 'Jessica' and 'In Memory of Elizabeth Reed'.

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17/01/2024

Happy New Year, 2024 from Avenue Guitar School.
The last two weeks of January usher in the new school year. Lessons will begin on Monday 22nd January and that following week for private students. I look forward to seeing those continuing from last year and new faces that will start this year.
Some times for lessons are still available in both Toowoomba and Highfields.

10/01/2024

Jeff Beck passed away one year ago today.

17/04/2022

While tidying up my music collection I found this sheet music by Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith. He was also the composer of “Dueling Banjos”, originally titled “Feudin’ Banjos”. After discovering that Warner Brothers had used an arrangement of the tune, without his permission, he successfully sued them for compositional rights.

31/12/2020

To all a happy & blessed New Year.
Thanks to all my friends and students that have made this past year so special.

30/12/2020

My wife Jan, got the wonderful folk at Photopro to restore this photo of the trio Livingston; myself, Howard Carroll and John Mann. This was taken, I believe at a New Years gig about 20 years ago by John’s wife Pam. I played Bass guitar with them for about a year and a half and thoroughly enjoyed the gigs we performed.

Blast from the past. Another precious photo stuck to the glass.