Photos by Jon Muldoon, Beach Metro NewsThanks to your incredible enthusiasm we had over 800 bike-friendly folks participating in our Guinness World Record attempt to set a new record for “Largest Bicycle Bell Ensemble”! Thanks so much to the volunteers who came out to help sign folks up and hand out bells, donated by Curbside Cycle. Mayor Miller joined us on stage with his bicycle for the bell ringing- it was great to have him ringing and singing along with us!
Walk and Roll - Studio Version - Download this song for free! Play it at home or in the classroom royalty free.
Walk and
Roll - Live at Dundas Square - You can listen to us performing Walk and
Roll live at Dundas Square- along with Samba Kids.
If you listen carefully you can here Mayor David Miller singing along in the
chorus!
Walk and Roll Live Video - Live at Dundas Square - Thanks to Canadian Press for use of the cool video.
Photos by Jon Muldoon, Beach Metro News
Photos by City of Toronto
Photo by Aneez Kanji
Photos by Kevin Kelly Photography
We will be re-counting our registration sheets in the next few days, and mailing it off to Guinness in London England so they can verify our evidence, and will update this page as soon as we hear back from them.
Come on down to the Green Toronto Festival at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto and help us break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Bicycle Bell Ensemble!
Bring your Bicycle Bell to play with the band and let's show everyone how much
we care about the health of our city and our air.
I will be performing my Earth Seas & Air Kids Concert
Noon on Saturday May 24
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto
http://www.toronto.ca/greentorontofestival/
This is a free event!
We will all play along to my new song “Walk and Roll”.
You can download
it for free here, and practice along at home!
This year's Green Toronto Festival will transform Yonge-Dundas Square into
a celebration of all things green on May 24.
Stroll through more than 100 exhibits of green products and services, sample
some scrumptious locally grown food and enjoy live bands & special guest
speakers, all in a car-free environment — Yonge Street will be closed
to traffic from Dundas to Queen.
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
March 24, 2008
A Call to Break
The Guinness World Records
&
Ring Those Bells for the Environment!!
Award winning musician and tireless environmental campaigner Chris
McKhool is sending out
a call to make Guinness World Records history on Sat May 24 for the Largest
Bicycle Bell Ensemble!
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At high noon on Saturday May 24 at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square, Chris McKhool, together with the Green Toronto Festival, are set to break a Guinness World Record for the Largest Bicycle Bell Ensemble to help raise awareness of environmental issues.
There, McKhool will be performing his trademark Earth, Seas & Air family concert -- topped off by an irrepressible finale where the public is invited to join in with their bicycle bells (either separate or attached to their bikes), and ring them in a resounding chorus for the environment during the performance of his new song, Walk and Roll (download the song for free here <http://www.fiddlefire.com> !). If 600 gather to sound those bells, McKhool, Toronto and Canada as a whole - will break and make a Guinness World Record!!
"Ever since I was a little kid, I poured through the Guinness Book of World Records, fascinated by the incredible achievements that we -- everyday, ordinary people -- can make", says McKhool. "What better way to get the message across that each of us can make extraordinary things happen in our daily lives-- and what better cause than the future of the planet itself?!"
McKhool and the City of Toronto are well positioned to break the record last set in Leipzig, Germany on November 22, 2003 by Professor Jörg Kärger and 503 participants.
If anyone can put the environmental message on the map and down in the GWR history books, it's McKhool, an Environment Canada Action Award winner, recipient of the Green Toronto Award of Excellence, multiple winner of the Parents' Choice Award (U.S.), and cross-Canada performer for over 10 years of his Earth, Seas & Air children's concerts, reaching almost 1 million children!! Hailed as a "children's musical star" (National Post) and Canada's greatest eco-troubadour for young people" (Mississauga Living Arts Centre), McKhool has also appeared on Mr. Dressup ("his songs succeed!"-- Ernie Coombs), YTV's Treehouse, TVOntario's Crawlspace and the CBC.
This year's Green Toronto Festival will transform Yonge-Dundas Square into a celebration of all things green! Stroll through more than 100 exhibits of green products and services, sample locally grown food and enjoy live bands including McKhool, Sultans of String, & special guest speakers, all in a car-free environment (Yonge Street will be closed to traffic from Dundas to Queen).
So join in on the fun -- ring those bells -- and make GWR history!!
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WHAT: Making Guinness World Records History for Largest Bicycle
Bell Ensemble
WHEN: Saturday, May 24, noon
WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto
WHO: Chris McKhool: Bicycle Bell Ensemble Coordinator
& Earth, Seas & Air Family Concert
COST: Free
EVENT http://www.chrismckhool.com
INFO: http://www.toronto.ca/greentorontofestival
416-392-2984
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14420390667
MEDIA Lisa Weitz
ENQUIRIES: LW Communications info@lwcommunications.ca 416-686-1616
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