Classic vinyl will shine at the Pittsburgh Record Fest Sunday in Lawrenceville, where aficionados of all ages can peruse thousands of albums while local DJs spin their favorites.

Pittsburgh Record Fest features large and small collectors alike offering up new, used, and collectible imports and domestic records in a marketplace where funk, punk, metal and doo-wop harmoniously coexist.

Retro garage DJ Shake Appeal and rapper Moemaw Naedon and his new album “Circular Signals” will provide musical ambiance.

Record Fest will be held Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Spirit, 242 51st Street in Lawrenceville, where food and beverages will be available for purchase. Admission is $3.

When avid record collector Max Terasauro, of Pittsburgh’s North Side, started the record swap 11 years ago, he scheduled them at night for a decidedly hipster crowd.

Now the people buying vinyl runs the gamut, he said.

“I love it when I see a dad who is in his 40s buying the records he used to have with his daughter in the eighth grade,” Terasauro said.

“Lots of young kids are into it and people who had records are back into it,” he said.

According to Forbes, “Music industry watchers know that vinyl records have been enjoying a resurgence since their near-death in the mid-2000s, and the market continues to grow.” Double-digit growth, about 16%, in fact, reported BuzzAngle.

Why vinyl records and why now? “Physically buying a record is a more aesthetically pleasing than going online and downloading it,” Terasauro said. “The Beatles are more than the music.”

The Record Fest experience is tactile and visual with the promise of holding a large musical package in your hands, taking in the artwork, photos, liner notes and, for some albums, the indispensable lyric sheet.

Terasauro is a record collections buyer for Attic Records in Millvale, one of the largest used record stores in the Pittsburgh area. And no, Attic’s collection is not online. Most of the customers are required to visit the store where one can see and feel the music.

Not surprisingly, Terasauro is a supporter of the brick-and-mortar record stores that continue to survive, although there are fewer of them. “There’s another reason to buy records in person,” he said, “Someday, people are going to end up with just Amazon and Walmart and they will be sorry.”

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