Longest concert-Balatonfured Guitar Festival sets world record

   BUDAPEST, Hungay--Musicians performed for 216 hours continuously at a resort by Lake Balaton, thereby achieving a world record for the longest concert by multiple artists , during the Balatonfured Guitar Festival .

  For ten days, day and night, 1,000 musicians in 350 groups of all shapes and sizes lined up to take the stage -- classical guitarists, jazz, Latin, flamenco and rock musicians all did their stuff -- the youngest among them just seven years old.



   Hungarians already held the record for the longest concert. In 2007 a performance lasting 192 hours at the same venue won them a place in the book of records. It was briefly bested by Canada with a performance lasting 200 hours.

 July 1st, 2008


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