A Guinness record with 333 bagpipes in Bulgaria by Art of Living
333 bagpipers from all over Bulgaria were gathered by Art of Living to attempt a world Guinness record on May 16th in the National Palace of Culture. The event was attended by 4000 people and was shown on major TV channels. The 333 bagpipers performed a 9 min composition of 8 most popular Bulgarian folk songs. During the event which was organized in honor of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s visit to Bulgaria, the founder of the Art of Living emphasized on the need to make the wolrd one world family.
Among the VIP guests were members of Bulgarian parliament, ambassadors, representatives of different ministries and media. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was awareded by the very prominent and well-known foundation "Humanness"which is honorable plaque for his extraordinary humane work in removing the consequences of conflicts, agression and disaster around the world and for his efforts and achievements in the name of a better world. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar award four distinguished Bulgarians with the Human Values award: Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia, Daniela Kaneva, prominent journalist from Bulgarian national television Yoana Tomova, owner of publishing companies "Prosveta" and "Prozoretz" as publishe of "Yoga Vashishta" (in Bulgarian).
