The "Thanks Jimi Festival" holds the Guinness World's record for the largest number of guitarists simultaneously playing the Jimi Hendrix's version of Hey Joe. This aggregate of musicians, music lovers and Jimi fans reached an astonishing record in 2009 with 6,346 guitarists in Wroclaw, Poland
The organizers of the 2010 "Thanks Jimi Festival" in Chicago along with Leszek Cichonski, the founder of the festival, would like to invite you to support this remarkable act, and to help constitute May 1st as "World Guitar Day". So, for all of you musicians,
novices and bystanders...
...and become a part of this outstanding event by joining us on
at Szarotka's Bar & Restaurant in Justice, IL
As of the present date, scheduled appearances will be made by »
- Veselovsky
- Glass Block Factory
- Arek Religa
- Devil's Charm
The 2009 event more than tripled the 2008 record of 2,052 for the "Largest Guitar Ensemble" set in Concord, California. Moreover, the present Mayor of Wroclaw, Mr. Rafał Dutkiewicz, was among those playing, as well as Deep Purple's guitarist Steve Morse and festival founder and director, Leszek Cichonski. Mr. Cichonski is a well-known musician and music educator in Poland. The "Thanks Jimi Festival" was an expansion of one of his educational programs that he started in 2003 in Poland.
Beyond the 6,346 guitar players, there were thousands of spectators and supporters in the City of Wroclaw, as well as other guitar players taking part online and in coordinated events in Sweden, the US, Canada and Australia (although, these locations were not included in the world record).
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