The Guinness World Record for the deepest musical concert now belongs to a newly formed band in Timmins.
The Miners & Sons performed for about half an hour Friday morning at the nine-thousand-foot level of the Kidd Mine, which produces copper, zinc and silver.
Promoter and percussionist Norm Dwyer told a news conference that the trip underground was done in three segments. It began in a cage – an elevator to the uninitiated
We took the tram or whatever you call it,” he said, “then had to get into the second cage, went all the way down to 9,000.”
The five band members say the acoustics that far down are excellent and their audience of about 30 people were singing and dancing.
“Here’s the funnest part of this,” says Dwyer. “This mine has spent 68 years taking rock out of that place, and then spent one day bringing it back.”
The previous record was set in Sudbury almost five years ago, at a mere 62-hundred feet.
SET LIST
- “Heavy” – Collective Soul
- “Heavy” – Glorious Sons
- What I Got – Sublime
- All the Small Things – Blink 182
- New Orleans is Sinking – Tragically Hip
- Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Here is audio of part of the news conference:
