If you were at a concert in DC this week, you may have seen Jeanette Pagliuco. The Reston woman attended 27 concerts between August 1 and 8, beating the Guinness World Record for most concert attendance in one week. Although she has yet to submit her final record to Guinness, Pagliuco ended her streak by attending 5 more concerts than she needed to, so she’s confident she can claim the title.

Jeanette Pagliuco, originally from Connecticut, fell in love with DC’s live music scene a few years ago while visiting her adult son who works in the city. “I thought, oh my gosh, I can hear jazz on Monday night, blues the next day, and a rock show on the weekend,” she says. “The live music scene here is so concentrated. I’d never experienced anything like it before, and I knew I wanted to be closer to it.”

She moved to Reston a year and a half ago to be closer to her son and the tunes, and quickly started a Meetup group called NoVA Live Music Meeting where she and more than 1,000 other music lovers plan concert tours. She wondered how many concerts one could attend in just one week and found that the current record holder, a Dutch DJ, attended 21 concerts in seven days in 2016. He flew back and forth between countries to claim the title, but Pagliuco knew she didn’t even have to leave the Washington DC area to beat him. She contacted the Guinness Book of Records for guidelines and began planning earlier this year.

From Aug. 1 to Aug. 8, Pagliuco visited more than 10 venues in D.C. and Northern Virginia, from Jiffy Lube Live to Woodrow Wilson Plaza. She’s usually drawn to metal and alternative rock acts — her favorite D.C. concert was Smashing Pumpkins — but she says the challenge pushed her out of her comfort zone. This past week, she saw a string quartet, a mariachi band and even the U.S. Marine Drum Corps. Her favorite show of the week? She was excited to see REO Speedwagon on Tuesday, but she also had to give credit to her friends in Herndon rock cover band The Pool Boys. “I love seeing big national shows, but there’s really nothing better than seeing a DMV band that you know you’ll be able to see again soon,” she says.

The endeavor wasn’t always easy – after a week of bad weather, Pagliuco’s clothes were soaked and her plans had to change – but for her, it felt like a community effort. At stops along the way, other members of the Meetup group came to support her. “They always called and asked if I needed water or a sandwich, and at my record-breaking concert, they threw a little party with balloons shaped like the number 22,” she said. “I don’t know if I would have made it without that encouragement.”

Pagliuco finished her performance last night at Madam’s Organ, where local band Latin Blues Funk jammed late into the night. As her musical foray comes to a close, Pagliuco says she’s tired but glad she did it. “People are always shocked that I have the energy to do it, but I feel like a 56-year-old with the mind of a 30-year-old,” she says. “My passion and enthusiasm for music gives me the stamina to do it. I truly believe that you are what you hear, and I just want people in the area to see how lucky they are to have a variety of performances right on their doorstep every day.”