10,000 Kazoos

Overview

If playing a musical instrument in public is on your bucket list, and breaking a world record as well, then Brisbane Festival 2023's closing event has you covered. 10,000 Kazoos is exactly what it sounds like, amassing 10,000 Brisbanites to get humming and hopefully go down in history. Never played a kazoo before? That doesn't matter.

This kazoo orchestra will unleash its tunes from 3.30pm on Saturday, September 23, on the last day of this year's Bris Fest, taking over Victoria Park / Barrambin. The greenery will indeed be alive with the sound of music, in a huge mass-participation that just might make the record books.

Michael Pham

If you're keen to help, registrations to take part are now open. And no, you don't even need your own kazoo.

Biodegradable versions of the buzzing musical instrument will be provided to everyone on the day. Once you have one, you'll just pop it in your mouth and start humming, which is what makes the membrane of the kazoo vibrate.