A Timmins band is going to great depths to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
“Miners & Sons” is a refigured version of the former band Dopamine
Norm Dwyer, owner of DwyNX Promotions says the band will perform 9,000 feet underground at the Kidd Mine next Friday morning.
“To break the record, it has to be at least 15 minutes long,” he explains. “We’ll be playing to some of the employees of the mine and a couple of the sponsors that’ll be coming.”
A Guinness adjudicator will be on hand to certify everything. The current record is just over 6,230 feet at Vale’s Creighton Mine in Sudbury almost five years ago.
When asked why, Dwyer says it’s for recognition.
“When you hear ‘mining’ and you hear ‘music’, I want people thinking ‘Timmins’, he states.. “We have such a history in mining. We have a lot of great musicians and a lot of music to our core here, and I thought when I saw this record, this is something Timmins can easily take and it makes sense why we would.”
