Thomas Dolby, Abney Park, and Frenchy & the Punk headline Steamstock: An Antiquarian Exposition!

[Brian Gardner]

Steamstock is a music festival from another time. Think of it as Woodstock from an alternate past, where airships filled the skies and swing was both gothic and electronic; people still wore top hats and corsets, and hippies were mad scientists.

 

More information is available at www.steamstock.org

 

The father of retro futurism in music, THOMAS DOLBY, and the most well known Steampunk band, ABNEY PARK, are joined by some of the best time defying bands from any reality, including:

- Lee Presson & the Nails - http://www.leepresson.com/
- Frenchy and the Punk - http://www.frenchyandthepunk.com/
- Vernian Process - http://www.vernianprocess.com
- Blue Rabbit - http://www.bluerabbitmusic.com/
- 5 Cent Coffee - http://5centcoffee.com/
- Victoria and the Vaudevillains - http://www.facebook.com/victoriaandthevaudevillains
- Vagabondage - http://www.vagabondageband.com/
- Brass Farthing - http://www.brass-farthing.com
- Good Co. (an exciting new Electro Swing band from Seattle!) - http://www.goodcomusic.com/

Columbus Day Weekend - October 7th

1:00 pm-12am

at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, CA

$37.50 in advance, $49 at the door

 

Cirque and Variety performers will include:

- Blackhoodygrrl - http://www.blackhoodygrrl.com
- The Empress - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnoAq-xvJQk
- Firefly - http://www.fireflybellydance.net
- Sommer Strangelove - http://www.aerialsommer.com
- Plus more to be announced soon!

There'll be music and dancing and vendors and food carts! Plus, the walls are made of giant panes of glass, so we can watch the sun set over the Bay, the Blue Angels darting by, AND the ships racing in an America's Cup regatta!

PLUS, bundled packages are available to PEERS' Steampunktoberfest - http://www.peers.org/steampunk.html for just $48 - two events for the price of one!

Event information, including the full lineup, vendors and cirque performers is found here: http://www.steamstock.org/

Tickets are available here: http://www.fanfueled.com/Event/Details/3061-steamstock-an-antiquarian-exposition


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