HAITI: 10,000 drummers to attempt world record at Jakmel Music festival
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A team of 10,000 drummers will attempt to break the world record for the largest drumming ensemble at a music festival in Haiti next month, organizers said Friday.
Drummers from throughout the Caribbean nation and beyond are expected to participate during the May 25-27 music festival in Jacmel, a sleepy resort town on Haiti's south coast, said Foundation Sant D'A Jakmel, a co-organizer of the event.
The drummers will try and break the previous Guinness World Record set in India last year when 7,951 people drummed continuously for five minutes.
"Through these drums, the breaking of the record will send a new message of a coalescent Haiti to the world," the festival said on its Web site. "Haiti ... will be cataloged in the annals of history as having successfully set a world record."
Damian and Stephen Marley, sons of late reggae legend Bob Marley, will headline the three-day Festival Mizik Jakmel, the first of what organizers hope will become an annual event.
More than 20 other international bands and performers will also play, including Les Nubians, Reggae Cowboys and Emiline Michelle.
HAITI: 10,000 drummers to attempt world record at Jakmel Music festival 
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