2,000 guitarists to strum way into record books

UP TO 2,000 people are expected to tune their guitars and strum their way to a world record attempt in West Cork later this month.

Organisers of the International Guitar Festival in Clonakilty say they are on target to have enough people to break the record for the largest ensemble guitar performance.

They need more than 2,052 people, all playing the same song on the guitar at the same time, to break the record held by a group which performed Woodie Guthrie’s This Is Your Land song in California in July 2008.