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On Sunday, September 21, 2008 Cleveland Metroparks set the “Ohio Record” for the “Largest Kazoo Play-Along” at the Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration & Music Festival in Rocky River Reservation in North Olmsted.
At approximately 4:15 p.m., Foster Brown, of Cleveland Metroparks, and Jim Blum, of WKSU/Folk Alley, led kazoo players of all ages in playing three songs - ‘You Are My Sunshine,’ ‘This Land Is Your Land’ and ‘When The Saints Come Marching In’ for five minutes of group kazoo-playing fun. After all the registration forms were counted, Cleveland Metroparks set the “Ohio Record” with 2,374 kazoo players. The Guinness World Record is currently at 3800.
Cleveland Metroparks can add this Ohio Record to two Guinness World Records it has already established: last year at this event, the Park District broke the Guinness Book of World Records for the ‘Largest Harmonica Play-Along’ with 1,882 visitors participating; and, a few years ago, Cleveland Metroparks broke the Guinness Record at that time for the ‘Largest Canoes/Kayaks Float’ held on Hinckley Lake in Hinckley Reservation.
Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration & Music Festival was held at the Frostville Museum and Rocky River Nature Center. Over 9.000 visitors enjoyed the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of a cornucopia of pioneer crafts and life skills, storytelling, toe-tapping music, and food sampling on the connecting “Pioneer Trail” between Rocky River Nature Center and Frostville Museum.
In addition to discovering the variety of pioneer skills, visitors enjoyed the sounds of folk music, played by some of the region’s top groups and nationally-recognized performers ‘The Biscuit Burners’ and ‘The Farewell Drifters’ – who both, also helped with the kazoo record attempt.
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