Thousands of Guitarists Flood Welles Park With Music in an Attempt to Break the Guinness World Record Tuesday Night, August 7

Thousands of Guitarists Flood Welles Park With Music in an Attempt to Break the Guinness World Record Tuesday Night, August 7

WHO: The entire 60-person Old Town School guitar faculty will
instruct an anticipated 2,000 participants...

WHAT: in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the
"World's Largest Music Lesson"...

WHEN: Tuesday, August 7 at 7:30 pm...
*Registration will begin at 6 p.m., with the lesson commencing
promptly at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Welles Park Gazebo at Sunnyside and Claremont Avenues.

*** YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO COVER ***

OTHER: The Old Town School launched in 1957 years ago with a group guitar
lesson and now celebrates its 50th Anniversary by
giving Chicago this record breaking event.

Bau Graves, Executive Director of the Old Town School, will be
available for interviews.

Veteran instructor Steve Levitt will lead the entire guitar
faculty in teaching the songs "Jambalaya" and "This Land is Your
Land" in the key of D. Guitar players of all levels are welcome
to participate, but must bring their own instruments.

The current World Record was set on May 12, 2006, and included 539
participants being taught to play the harmonica in Montreux,
Switzerland.

The Old Town School of Folk Music, the nation's largest
independent community arts school, is a not-for-profit
organization that teaches and celebrates music and cultural
expressions rooted in the traditions of diverse Chicago, American
and global communities. Each week close to 6,000 students of
all ages participate in hundreds of classes and workshops in
music, dance, theater and art, and over 160 concerts and
performances are produced yearly in the School's critically
acclaimed Gary and Laura Maurer Concert Hall. The Old Town School
of Folk Music is located in Chicago at 4544 N. Lincoln Avenue,
with an additional location at 909 West Armitage Avenue.

Other upcoming 50th Anniversary events scheduled this year
include: an Open House and Homecoming Dance (November 3); and to
culminate the celebration, a 50th Anniversary Concert at the
Auditorium Theatre on December 1, 2007 (the actual date of the
50th Anniversary).

For more information please visit http://www.oldtownschool.org/ or
call (773) 728-6000.

Please see Samara Harand or Beth Silverman on-site at the Gazebo
for assistance.

Contact: Samara Harand/Beth Silverman
The Silverman Group, Inc.
(312) 932-9950
On-site: (773) 744-5596

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Source: The Old Town School of Folk Music

Web site: http://www.oldtownschool.org/

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