Group photo from the Texas Concertina Festival, in the basement of the Museum for East Texas Culture (old Reagan High School in Reagan park) in Palestine, Texas.
The Concertina Festival is affiliated with, but separate from, the Palestine Old Time Music and Dulcimer Festival (Known as "Old Pal" for short). This year, we also played a tune on stage with our headliner Jody Kruskal in the Old Pal Evening concert on Saturday night.
Not exactly steampunk, but
I'm a steampunk, and I was there. Too, few musical instruments can claim to have been invented or to have had their first initial heyday during the Victorian Era Which in my book makes the concertina steamy by default...
That's me in the rather wumperjawed wheel cap and goggles (yes, I really do dress similarly everywhere I go). My concertina is in an "elevated" position to one side (the bright red one with white buttons).
