Thanks Jimi Festival honours Hendrix by setting a new World Record.

*1951 guitars played Jimi Hendrix's blues-rock hit 'Hey Joe' and other
songs at the Old Town Square in Wroclaw, Poland, on the 1st of may 2008.
This event sets a new Guinness' World Record for the largest number of
guitars simultaneously playing the same song. This was the sixth
attempt: last year 1881 guitars participated in the event witch was the best score in the World.

The attempt took place during the 'Thanks Jimi Festival' dedicated to
the music of the world's best known guitarist, Jimi Hendrix. It was
organized on the initiative of Leszek Cichonski - a respected musician
and music educator from Wroclaw, Poland, who wants to attain a goal of
teaching guitarists a new Hendrix's song every year.

The event is transforming into the center of an annual 1st of May
"World Guitar Day" and is expanding significantly with satellite events
happening simultaneously around the world as well as private
individuals and smaller groups being able to also take part in real time via the web. The whole Festival will be rebroadcast on the 1st of June via Net.
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*Links : *http://www.cichonski.art.pl , the festival video-story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPzNduP_rI *