# World's Longest Concert: 16 Days and Counting **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-concert-16-days-and-counting/783683 "2017-04-03T21:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-concert-16-days-and-counting/783683/1 "2017-04-03T21:37:57Z")
A pub in Stouffville, Ontario has broken the Guinness record for the world’s longest concert: > **[Earl of Whitchurch (unofficially) breaks Guinness concert record](https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/04/03/earl-of-whitchurch-unofficially-breaks-guinness-concert-record.html)** > > They came, they played and …. they’re still playing, breaking a Guinness World Record along the way. They hit the mark at about 7:00 AM local time Sunday, April 2. But they’re going to continue, to extend the record time. Live stream is here (scroll to the bottom), for as long as they continue, which looks like it will be Tuesday night: [https://epidemicmusicgroup.ca/](https://epidemicmusicgroup.ca/) I’ve been following this for the last few weeks, as I used to live in Stouffville, and the Earl of Whitchurch was my usual hangout. I knew a few of the performers in the concert, and heard them play back in the day there. It would have been a treat to have heard them again in this recent effort, but I couldn’t make it. At any rate, way to go to all involved! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-concert-16-days-and-counting/783683/2 "2017-04-03T23:56:37Z")
Is this a single group, or a whole bunch of different performers who are taking turns? Because if the latter, I would argue that it’s not a concert, it’s a festival of concerts. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-concert-16-days-and-counting/783683/3 "2017-04-04T00:15:20Z")
It’s a bunch of different performers, so I suppose it is more of a festival concert. There were some pretty stringent guidelines from Guinness however, so it they are happy with the festival format, it should still count. One of my old friends there, who is married to one of the performers, informed me about those guidelines, which were distributed to performers: > [@Old Friend](#): > > It has been interesting to see the entire logistical process for the World record - all musicians are to submit a play list and must play their list (songs in exact order) and no repeats of songs/lists within a given time frame. Must have 10 people in audience at all times, no more than 30 seconds between songs or 5 minutes between acts, etc. Very stringent criteria. It will all be captured on video for review by officials. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-longest-concert-16-days-and-counting/783683/4 "2017-04-05T00:33:30Z")
Well, I’m guessing it falls outside the common definition of a “concert” but back in 2013 I attended the most recent changing of the note of John Cage’s [As Slow As Possible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible) in Halberstadt, Germany. > [@](#): > > The performance of the organ version at St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany began in 2001 and is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, ending in 2640.