Walt McGraw looks out from the front door of McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. McGraw and his wife are taking over the shop from his in-laws, Bob and Espie Riskin. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times ...

McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica — which happens to house one of the most storied concert halls in the Los Angeles area as well as being a mecca for acoustic instrument sales and lessons — has ...

Since 1958, musicians, folkies, poets and fans of same have wandered into McCabe’s guitar shop in search of an instrument, a lesson, or people with like-minded musical taste. Players have come for the ...

Hanging from the walls are a saz, a charango, a bouzouki and dozens of djembes, didgeridoos and kalimbas, along with hundreds of ukuleles, mandolins, banjos and guitars variously stringed, shaped, ...

Most Southland music fans know McCabe’s Guitar Shop for the innumerable folk, country, blues, jazz and world-music concerts presented over the decades in the tiny back stockroom that can hold about ...

Every so often you see a show announced that you feel has the potential to be transcendent for one reason or another. Jackson Browne, the dean of Southern California singer/songwriters, playing for ...

Gerald McCabe, a furniture designer whose passion for woodworking and love of music led to the creation of the Santa Monica folk music institution McCabe’s Guitar Shop, died Sunday in Eugene, Ore., ...

Since 1958, musicians, folkies, poets and fans of same have wandered into McCabe’s guitar shop in search of an instrument, a lesson or people with like-minded musical taste. Players have come for the ...

LOS ANGELES — After a night last week in which protesters and police clashed in Santa Monica, Esperanza Riskin clocked in early at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, the store she co-owns with husband Bob in the ...

McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica — which happens to house one of the most storied concert halls in the Los Angeles area as well as being a mecca for acoustic instrument sales and lessons — has ...