World record smashed at Richmond Maritime Festival Richmond, BC – One hundred and eighty participants successfully completed a Nursery Rhyme Relay singing of Row, Row, Row Your Boat in a Guinness World Record attempt Friday at the Richmond Maritime Festival, That smashes the current record of 154 participants for a nursery rhyme relay. In a nursery rhyme relay each person sings just one word. Collectively, the participants need to repeatedly sing the song’s words in correct sequence with no mistakes and in time to musical accompaniment. It took five attempts for the collective group of 180 to successfully complete the relay without any flubs and on tempo. The world record attempt helped launch the 10th annual Richmond Maritime Festival. Videotape of the Maritime Festival’s run at the record must now be submitted to the Guinness World Records organization for review before it is declared official. The 10th Annual Richmond Maritime Festival continues all weekend from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Sunday at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site in Richmond. Highlights include: · Free boarding of the historic Lady Washington, a majestic 34-metre (112-foot) ship that has been featured in several movies and TV series, including the Pirates of the Caribbean and popular TV series Once Upon A Time. More than a dozen other boats and ships will also be available for viewing and boarding along Britannia’s 190-metre (600-foot) dock. · Festival entertainment including live music, roving performers, painters, wood carvers, potters, stilt performers, puppets, storytellers, dancers, drummers, hands-on arts and crafts activities, fine arts demonstrations and displays, historical exhibits and much more. Pirates, mermaids and other creatures of the deep will pop up in unexpected places. For more details visit richmondmaritimefestival.ca
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:45:33 +0000
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