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2018 March Guinness World Record Attempt, London – UKby Rob Howard |
London-based Russian accordionist Nikolai Ryskov (picture left) is organizing an accordion world record attempt next year. The intention is to gather together accordionists all playing an easy version of ‘Libertango’ by Astor Piazzolla. This event will take place on Ryskovs birthday, March 11th 2018 in a central London location to be announced. There will be a whole program of music and dance with food and drinks available and accordion displays. The world record attempt will monitored for the Guinness Book of Records and is not an easy record to achieve. On the 20th July 2014 a new Guiness record total of 1,361 accordionists all playing together was set in Shenzhen, China (picture below). 2014HohnerReport Then in 20 August 2016 in Tacheng China, a new Guiness record of 1517 accordionists all playing together (picture above). Report at: 2016Tacheng A fun event is planned, aiming to raise the profile of our instrument. For further information email: nryskov@gmail.com |