Arts & Entertainment
Musikfest 2011: What you Need to Know
Venue changes, artist lineups, and parking info are all here for this year's Musikfest.
Venue Relocations:
This year, much of Musikfest has been relocated to Bethlehem’s South Side. The festival will host a whopping 344 artists (20 more than last year) across 14 venues, but the headlining acts won’t be performing on the usual RiverPlace stage on Sand Island. Instead, they’ll be at the Sands Steel Stage, located on the SteelStacks campus just west of Bethlehem Steel’s blast furnaces. The venue will seat 7,000 more people than RiverPlace and use bleachers instead of lawn seating for the cheaper tickets.
Because of the ArtsQuest Center, the Candlelight Series (at Moravian College’s Foy Hall) and the Performing Arts Series (at Lehigh University’s Zoellner Arts Center) have merged into one series (the PNC Bank Performing Arts Series) and all of its performances will take place in the Musikfest Café.
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Also, Americaplatz, the largest free venue, will now be at the new Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks, instead of in Payrow Plaza next to City Hall.
Artist Lineup and Ticket Prices:
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At the Sands Steel Stage-
August 5
Stone Temple Pilots
Opening act: Rose Hill Drive
Tickets: $159 for Terrace, $47 for floor, $35 for Grandstand
August 6
Maroon 5
Opening act: PJ Morton
Tickets: The Terrace is sold out, $49 for floor, $39 for Grandstand
August 7 – Miranda Cosgrove
Opening act: Greyson Chase
Tickets: $159 for Terrace, $35 for floor, $25 for Grandstand
August 8 – Steve Miller Band
Opening act: TBA
Tickets: The Terrace is sold out, $49 for floor, $39 for Grandstand
August 9 – Alison Krauss & Union Station (featuring Jerry Douglas)
Opening act: Dawes
Tickets: $159 for Terrace, $44 for floor, $34 for Grandstand
August 10 – Steely Dan
Opening act: Sam Yehel
Tickets: The Terrace and floor are sold out, $49 for Grandstand
August 11 – Straight No Chaser
Opening act: TBA
Tickets: $159 for Terrace, $37 for floor, $29 for Grandstand
August 12 – Buckcherry with Fuel
Opening act: Art of Dying
Tickets: $159 for Terrace, $34 for floor, $22 for Grandstand
August 13 – Nick Jonas
Opening act: Ocean Grove
Tickets: $159 for Terrace, $39 for floor, $29 for Grandstand
August 14 – Train with Gavin DeGraw
Opening act: Nikki Jean
Tickets: The Terrace is sold out, $44 for floor, $34 for Grandstand
At the Musikfest Café-
August 5 – Needtobreathe
Tickets: $20 for Standing Room Only
August 6 – Ravi Coltrane
Tickets: $54 Balcony, $44 Cabaret
August 7 – Al Di Meola World Sinfonia Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody Tour 2011
Tickets: $49 Balcony, $39 Cabaret
August 8 – Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Tickets: $30 Balcony, $24 Cabaret, $24 Standing Room Only
August 9 – 7 Walkers
Tickets: $40 Balcony, $30 Cabaret, $30 Standing Room Only
August 10 – Nikki Costa
Tickets: $28 Balcony, $24 Cabaret, $24 Standing Room Only
August 11 – John Oats
Tickets: $49 Balcony, $39 Cabaret
August 12 – The Red Horse Project: Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka, and Lucy Kaplansky
Tickets: $44 Balcony, $34 Cabaret
August 13 – The Verve Pipe
Tickets: $5 Standing Room Only at 2 p.m., $40 Balcony, $30 Cabaret for 7 p.m.
August 14 – Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE
Tickets: $39 Balcony, $32 Standing Room Only
Parking:
Free street parking Downtown and on the South Side (no parking at the SteelStacks)
Bethlehem Parking Authority lots are $10
Shuttles are $4 (free for kids 12 and under): from The Martin Tower on 8th Ave to the North Side and from Musikfest Central Parking on Rt 412 & Commerce Center Blvd to the South Side