By IANS
Bangalore : Nearly 1,700 people in 44 groups set a Guinness world record by singing Konkani songs for 40 hours non-stop at Karnataka’s coastal town of Mangalore.
The attempt began Saturday morning and ended at 10 p.m. Sunday, during which 645 Konkani songs were sung by the groups from Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa, the organisers said in a statement.
Keith Pullin, adjudicator of Guinness World Records, presented a certificate acknowledging the record late Sunday night, the statement said.
The Konkani Nirantari programme was organised to beat the existing record of 36-hour of non-stop singing by a Brazilian group Communidadae Evanelica Lauterana of Sao Paulo and to raise funds to promote Konkani language and culture.
Each group sang 15 songs in one hour. There was only a 30-second break between the songs.