Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival

Here I am at the 2015 Pennsylvania Cigar Box Festival on the indoor stage in the bookstore at the York Emporium. This was a unique festival that attracted cigar box guitar enthusiasts and music fans from all over.

This was an old school stage in a bookstore. No air conditioning but plenty of good atmosphere. A perfect setting to make music with a cigar box guitar! It was an experience I will remember fondly. Thanks to all involved!

All photos on this post by Ben Sussman, trusted photographer (and brother-in-law). Thank you Ben!

And thanks to the Pennsylvania Cigar Box Guitar Festival! Wonderful folks!

Many cigar box guitars were on display and for sale.

I love these gasoline can guitars!

The Frontier Dentists, the act preceding me on the indoor stage, featured cigar box guitar, standard guitars, drums, and this hand-painted bass instrument.

Yes you can, with a little ingenuity, make an instrument out of almost anything, including a toilet seat.

Jim, the festival director, helped set up this performance on the night before the festival at this local venue. I met people there who had come all the way from West Virginia and Manitoba, Canada to attend the festival.