G. D. Falksen is an author, lecturer, public speaker and MC. He also studies history and blogs for Tor.com. While his repertoire spans a range of topics, he is currently most noted for his steampunk work and is one of the most recognizable figures in the steampunk literary genre and the related subculture. His debut novel, The Hellfire Chronicles: Blood In The Skies has just been released, to rave reviews. Other fiction includes The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday, and the serials An Unfortunate Engagement and The Mask of Tezcatlipoca, among others. His work has appeared in Steampunk Tales, Steampunk Magazine, The Chap, Egophobia, and various anthologies such as Footprints and Steampunk Reloaded. He has made appearances as a guest at various events, including Dragon*Con and the World Steam Expo, and has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Hartford Courant, Marie Claire Italia, BoingBoing.net, Time Out New York, and New York Magazine. He has also appeared on MTV, NHK, VBS.tv, Space, and io9.com. He is the lead writer for AIR, a steampunk-themed video game currently in development from Hatboy Studios, Inc. If you wish to know more please visit his web site http://www.gdfalksen.com
New York Times Best Selling Author Gail Carriger began writing to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in higher learning. Ms. Carriger is fond of teeny tiny hats and tropical fruit.
Her Parasol Protectorate books are urbane fantasies mixed with comedies of manners and steampunk. They include: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, and Timeless. Soulless won the ALA's Alex Award and was nominated for a Compton Crook, Campbell, and a Locus Award. Changeless and Blameless were New York Times Bestsellers. Her new steampunk series for young adults is called the Finishing School series and hits stores in 2012.
Her other hats (neither pith helmet nor fedora) have included tromping the Peruvian highlands excavating ancient pottery and writing cryptic reviews of YA novels for the Horn Book Guide.
www.gailcarriger.com
Photograph by J. Daniel Sawyer
Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2012 books are _Kalimpura_ from Tor Books, and _Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh_ from Prime Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a past winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.
http://jaylake.livejournal.com/
John White is the author of the new steampunk epic Tales of Airship Neverland series, consisting of Tales of the Airship Neverland, aptain Hook and The Pirates of Mars, and concluding with Dust and Ash.
Airship Neverland projects forthcoming include a musical Score to the novel released by Steampunk musician Jon Magnificent, and an audio play of Airship Neverland.
New on the steampunk scene, John has previously served as the Art Director of The Honor Flight Network, and Honor Flight Northwest Ohio. He has primarily focused his career artistically having worked as a muralist, courtroom artist; customers included Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and has art hanging in the U.S. Coast Guard academy. John lives in Toledo with his new bride, Mary.
Evelyn Kriete is an editor, artist, fashion designer, marketing adviser and promoter with ten years of active experience in events organization and marketing. Along with being a event producer with active involvement in a wide range of subcultures and trends, she is known as the major steampunk organizer in New York, a principle organizer worldwide, and a moving force behind the steampunk trend. She has worked closely with various reporters, researchers and media outlets during their coverage of steampunk including but not limited to The New York Times, MTV, NHK, VBS.tv, NBC and the San Francisco Chronicle. She does programming and staff work for Dragon con, NYCC and other major conventions. She co-produces the premier black tie monthly event Dorian's Parlor in Philadelphia. She provides media and networking services for numerous artist the world wide. She is the co-founder of Gilded Age Records, the first ever steampunk music label; she is also the co-founder of the Annual Time Travel Picnic, the oldest annual steampunk meet up event. Her art has appeared in numerous art shows across the country and in a range of publications. She moderates the Steamfashion community and blogs for Brass Goggles as well for Tor.com. She has previously worked with various projects such as Repo! the Genetic Opera, the steampunk exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and Make Magazine's World Maker Faire New York. She is currently working with a number of film projects and TV shows, including The Marionette Unit and War of the Worlds: Goliath. She has worked for Weird Tales magazine for years and is now the head of media and advertising for Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine. She is the creative director for Steampunk Tales magazine and the editor of Wildside Press's forthcoming Steampunk Classics line of books. Her writing has appeared in books such as Steampunk Reloaded and will be appearing in seven different books due out over the course of the next two years, including the Steampunk Bible. She has a Steampunk Fashion book series forthcoming in 2013 from Fox Chapel Publishing. She is also the Marketing Director for Hatboy Studios's forthcoming video game AIR: Steampunk. She is a fashion designer for the Australian clothing label Galley Serpentine. She has been the principle stylist for numerous photo shoots,music videos and the producer of more fashion shows than she can count. It is said that she does, in fact, sleep and eat, but to date the claims are merely rumors. She is also very excited to have a hat named after her by Topsy Turvy Design.
Jon Magnificent is an airship captain, a time-traveler and a composer of a broad range of sonic
works that stylistically span several millennia.
In the first 3 months of this year, alone, he has already completed 2 new albums, and he released 4 albums last year).
The first album is a collection of orchestral pieces for the soundtrack to a Steampunk novel (Airship Neverland by J.R. White) and the second album contains some out-of-this-world alternative rock and pop for the soundtrack for the Young Adult Sci-fi novel INTWINE by Christina Moss.
2008 Orchestral Composer of the Year
- Los Angeles Music Awards2009 Grammy ballot for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Solo Vocal Performance
- National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences 2010 Rock Album of the Year
- Los Angeles Music Awards2011 Rock Artist of the Year
- Los Angeles Music Awards2011 International Steampunk Band of the Year
- Los Angeles Music Awards2012 Nominated for Rock Album of the Year for album "Another Day"
- Los Angeles Music Awards
www.JonMagnificent.com
The League of S.T.E.A.M. is not your average performance group. This talented group of artists, performers, and inventors take the audience back to a time of intrepid adventure, bridging the gap between the supernatural and the scientific; they are monster hunters from the Victorian era. The League of S.T.E.A.M. specializes in interactive entertainment, performing with a fusion of fantastic technology, interactive demonstrations, and theatrical trickery, and their live events showcase a mesmerizing array of fully functional gadgets and props meticulously designed to enchant and entertain audiences of all ages. Their mission is to create unforgettable entertainment to engage a global audience across multiple venues, telling stories through a unique mix of interactive live shows, a popular web series, audio podcasts, an interactive fan club, and more.
Pop Haydn is not originally from this century. Pop is a Victorian gentleman of the Gold Rush era, who in the early part of the 20th Century was suddenly stranded here in the 21st Century by accident—not really his fault--along with a bunch of other fellow citizens from that time. Pop is making his way through this brave new world the way he always has--as a professional entertainer. He charms and delights with his mind-bending magic, comedy and music, and of course, he tries to sell those little bottles of patent medicine whenever he can. Pop loves the 21st Century! Here you can sell people water--by the bottle--for real money! Pop’s wonderful radio-magnetism inventions like the Teleportation Device, the Matter Transmographier, and the Tesla Girl are always exciting and edifying demonstrations.
Sophie Evans is Tesla Girl, our intrepid Electronaut. Her inherent lack of bio-resistance enables her to channel thousands of volts of electricity through her body, enabling her to polarize her natural animal magnetism through the practice of mesmeric and yogic exercises to the point that she can command the force of gravity itself...
Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cumberbuns were proper adventuring attire. They've picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem.
Hydraulics hiss and motors hum as three robots begin to snap into mechanical movement. Their instruments ring and the automatons begin to belt out in three part harmony.
The robots of Steam Powered Giraffe are like nothing you've ever seen. The malfunctioning joke-spewing metal men play a collection of original Vaudeville inspired tunes fused with modern flare and executed in a super-sleek, one-of-a-kind performance.
More than just a band, Steam Powered Giraffe is an experience that must be seen and heard by the entire family.
The artists behind the robots started street busking as these quirky characters in January 2008 at Balboa Park, California, and instantly drew the attention of Southern California. Since then they've performed at such venues as The San Diego Fair, The San Diego Zoo, The Wild Animal Park, Legoland, Ontario Mills, and numerous Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Steampunk Conventions.
The act combines the visual of robot pantomime with sketches, pop culture references, improvised comedic dialogue, and of course, original music. From their heartwarming nostalgic melodies to their funky cabaret rock, Steam Powered Giraffe's songs are memorable, infectious, and as unique as the robots themselves.
Trained in pantomime by Seaport Village mime Jerry Hager, with collective backgrounds in clown, theatre, music, and visual design, Jon Sprague, and the Bennett twins Christopher and David have sculpted a striking homegrown performance that will leave you tapping your feet and humming for days.
Euro-American duo Frenchy and the Punk have performed all across the US, as well as England, France, Germany and Canada. They are one of the top-reviewed live acts in the underground cabaret scene today.
They have been fan favorites at every major steampunk and faerie convention and festival in the US. Their crossover appeal widened with the release of their Happy Madness CD. In 2011 Yahoo Music listed French-born singer and percussionist, Samantha Stephenson, as one of "25 Women To Watch" in music and guitarist Scott Helland is listed in the Encyclopedia of Punk with his legendary first band Deep Wound. Frenchy and the Punk's music has been played on the Travel Channel, MTV, TLC, Oprah and WeTV.
Fusing foot-stompin' bohemian cabaret, world music, French chanson and `80's punk, with vaudeville charm, steampunk flair and a pixie spirit the duo's performances are a high energy theatrical spectacle. They captivate crowds by seamlessly blending raucous, danceable old-world melodies with cheeky stories sung in English and French and exhilarating Taiko meets Blue Man Group drum and percussion instrumentals.
Stephenson, a performer since childhood, beams with charisma and dazzles in her sultry neo-vintage cabaret vocal style; think Siouxsie Sioux meets Karen O meets Edith Piaf. Helland, an Amercian-born guitarist and punk veteran, creates a wall of sound with his rhythmic live-looping guitar prowess and catchy melodic lines; think Johnny Ramone meets Eugene Hutz meets Django Reinhardt. Together this spirited duo manage to create the sonic expanse and richness of a full band while still retaining the charm of a vaudeville duo.
Visit them at: frenchyandthepunk.com
The Absinthe Minded Professors are a hallucinatory vision of Victorian science fiction. Steampunk tales powered by violin. Despite the presence of excellent musicianship the Absinthe Minded Professors are not a band but a scientific dramatic attraction. Storyteller Joshua Safford spins tales taking audiences to the outer reaches of the future past while Michi Regier murders the classics. A smattering of magic mad science colors their interludes. Their tales are laden with historical detail and the science of temporal physics and historical options.
While they have performed at steampunk events such as Wild Wild West Con, Dorians Parlor, Clockwork Vaudeville, Steam Century, and the Milwaukee Steampunk Ball, the faculty of the AMP have had runs performing Steampunk in in conventional Theatrical Spaces Including Indianapolis Fringe, Chicago’s City Lit Theater, Stage Left, and the Evanston Arts Depot, a theatrical space in the bowels of a train station.
Audiences/student body in addition to being gutted for their spare parts are treated to automated Jane Austen, Bloody prequels to the Nutcracker, and Bizarre big game hunters. To be sure the Absinthe Minded Professors are a mind altering experience.
Born and bred on the salty streets of Detroit, Michigan, The Bawdy Boys strive to bring a new generation into the rich heritage and culture of Irish Americans through bawdy versions of traditional favorites, toasts and bits of history and every sea shanty, rebel tune and drinking song they can put their instruments and voices to. Not afraid to break out of what is considered the normal mold of Irish Folk music, the Boys always bring their crowds into the lush world of Pirates, North American Irish immigrants and Celtic history with a unique blend of world musical influences and interactive, up-beat story telling. They invite you to join them for a pint and a song at a port of call near you. Sláinte!
Hayley Jane is a musician and burlesque dancer based out of Detroit, MI, perhaps best known in the Steampunk community as The Tick Tock Tease. The clockwork coquette got her start in striptease in November 2008 and has yet to break the habit of taking her clothes off in front of an audience. This past year, Hayley Jane made her international debut in 2010 Miss Exotic World Roxi D'Lite's Boom Boom Burlesque, performed at TeslaCon II, and released her second studio album "idiot child.". She is happy to return to this year's World Steam Expo with a couple of new tricks up her sleeve!
Dr. Tomas Maxwell Toon is a well-known scientist of Ethnomusicology, Sociomusicology, and Cognitive Musicology, a specialized Weapons-Grade Gramaphonist. He may also be slightly mad.
In another lifetime, Dr Toon is also known as Thomas Downey, a professional DJ from the Detroit area. In his 16-year career, he has performed at many events and conventions, including the World Steam Expo, ConVocation and Youmacon, and will be DJ-ing at ConTemporal, a steampunk convention in North Carolina this June. He is the host of "Up in the Aether", Detroit's monthly steampunk gathering, at the Phoenix Cafe. He is also the host and creator of an upcoming steampunk music/radio serial podcast, also entitled “Up in the Æther”. When not spinning tunes, or looking for new ones, Tommy is the musical track curator and Head of Guest Relations with the World Steam Expo, and is the proud and exhausted father of Sean (age 3) and Isabella (age 1).
Photo by: Mark Moore
Psycubus is one of the premier electronica/steampunk DJ's in state of Michigan. Providing a fusion of Industrial, Mechanical, Darkwave, and Victorian Sensibilities to provide you an experience you will never forget.
May 27th 1912 - New Orleans, LA popular hypno-jazz ensemble The Confabulation of Gentry disappears mysteriously from a crowded theater.
May 27th 2012 - Dearborn, MI a band exactly resembling the original Confabulation appears onstage in a crowded hotel ballroom and proceeds to set the evening ablaze with danceable syncopated rhythms.
Is it all a coincidence? Mere theatrical triumph? Or is it, as some whisper, a dangerous musical experiment in time travel? Whatever the case, the Confabulation of Gentry is quite an entertaining spectacle, furninshing the sophisticated and yet strangely modern sounds of turn-of-the-century ingenuity! Fronted by millionaire inventor and philanthropist Prof. Milo Reginald Pinkerton, this band of adventurers was culled from far flung city and countryside alike across the Earth to unite in furthering Prof. Pinkerton's singular vision: the excitement of audience ears, minds and feet. The group has vowed not to rest, until the entire world is dancing madly to their syncopated rhythms and humming their memorable melodies.
Lights, chaos, action! More than just virtuosity of musicianship, dazzling and oft bewildering visual effects, sensational representatives of mad science The Consortium of Genius are an industrial-strength powerhouse featuring up to nine cerebral miscreants who jolt their audience into staggering submission. The resulting evil brainchild is part musical showcase, part sketch comedy, and all hi-tech magic, featuring the sadistic vocals and theremin playing of Dr. Milo T. Pinkerton III, the heavily-marinated guitar of Dr. Lester McLummox, the macabre vocals of Lab Tech Remy Dee, the deadly trumpet of Professor S. Chronotis, the sadistic keyboards and vocoder of Dr. Ivan Stroganoff, and the funky-fresh bass playing of Dr. Zaemon Abdul-Siddhartha-Mohammad-Achmell-Tutmos-Abram-Ali-Hermes -Odin-Mahatma-Dahali-Martin-Luther-Hussein-Kali-Rocka-Babu-Haghighi III (more commonly referred to as "Dr. Z"), along with their trusty wisecracking percussive powerhouse Drumbot. The expanded lineup of the band also includes Dr. Max D Struction on upright bass, Experiment F13 on rhythm guitar, and assistant Lab Girl Piper Chordata on trombone!
C.O.G. have performed all over the Southeast region for the last decade, packing venues from modest to extreme, from atmospheric clubs to large festivals (Voodoo Music Fest, French Quarter Fest.) Opening for everyone from 'Mojo Nixon' to 'Crowbar', with four songs to date aired by 'Dr. Demento' on his national radio show, they present a versatile repertoire of nearly 50 original songs, completely warping the styles of a colorful, nostalgic past including 'hair metal', 'hip-hop', 'DYOA' (dance your ass off) pop, and a touch of 'country'. Whatever images may appear on the projection screen behind them, C.O.G. only knows, and the occasional lucky (?) audience member may be engaged at any time for an unforgettable experience onstage with the unpredictable but always entertaining Consortium of Genius!
http://www.consortiumofgenius.com/steamcog/
Enchanting rhythms and tunings create an intoxicating journey thru time. Monet Mussentouchit will be joined by Sue Peel on drums, and Becca the Gypsette. Visit Harpnotic Online
All at once dark and moving, reflective and evocative, the music of Eli August mines emotions of times lost and forgotten and brings them back to life.
Leather and brass, India ink and sepia, video and laser projectors: these are the armaments of Illuminatus 2.2 . Since the 70's (choose your century), these photonic miscreants have been shining coherently at concerts, conventions, and consensual convents across the continent.
Illuminatus 2.2 invents and constructs proprietary beam-punk instruments to induce awe and spectacle: atmospheric laser holography that paints the room with swirling color, video performance art that combines live cams and Victorian footage, floating laser-projected airships that throb above the throng. Bust a bustle, toggle your goggles, and train your spyglass on www.illuminatuslightshow.com