As Musikfest winds down, the best way to end the festival is with a Musikfest staple, The Slicked Up 9’s. As far as I can remember, every year The Slicked Up 9’s play towards the end of Musikfest and can be seen in front of Hotel Bethlehem for two days with about three hour set… Read More The Slicked Up 9’s – Musikfest – Bethlehem, PA – 8/9/25
After all these years photographing Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, there are two things I can count on, one, a great swinging show, and two, photographing them in beautiful historic theatres. Gillioz Theatre is a nice intimate theatre that reminded me of the theatre I frequented growing up in Bethlehem, PA. That theatre is no more,… Read More Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Gillioz Theatre – Springfield, MO – 10/5/24
In the beginning of 2018 the biggest surprise happened, the Gaslight Anthem announced they would reunite and tour the world. However, this wasn’t to promote new music or that they will become a full time band again, it was to celebrate 10 years of The ’59 Sound. The band would play the album front to… Read More The Gaslight Anthem / Matt Mays / Jared Hart – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA – 8/15/18
ArtsQuest’s last free concert of the season would feature Catbite and Slingshot Dakota on the Levitt Pavilion Steelstacks and Stop The Presses at the Town Square Stage. The show was being promoted as an Anniversary show for Catbite and Slingshot Dakota since both bands feature married couples that surprisingly share the same anniversary date. Unfortunately,… Read More Catbite / Slingshot Dakota / Stop The Presses – ArtsQuest – Bethlehem, PA – 9/11/22
Every year a late 90’s/early 2000’s revival tour happens that brings back the essence of the music of that time, most notably the Everclear “Summerland Tour”. The lineups are usually dream worthy and all their favorite bands under one roof is too good to be true. That can be said about the Tried-N-True Tour featuring… Read More Tried-N-True Tour Featuring Hoobastank / Lit / Alien Ant Farm / Kris Roe Of The Ataris – Musikfest Cafe – Bethlehem, PA – 10/16/22
Closing out the festivities at Musikfest on Main Street was none other than local favorite The Slicked Up 9’s. The group has performed at Musikfest every year and every year the crowd comes back and seems to grow each year. Along with the crowd growing, there is always multiple people dancing from all age groups… Read More The Slicked Up 9’s – Musikfest – Bethlehem, PA – 8/14/22
For the second time, Catbite graced the Zinzenplatz stage at Musikfest, but this time to an even bigger crowd than the year before. When Catbite played Musikfest last year they just released their second album, Nice One, two days before, but were only playing a few songs from that album along with multiple covers. This… Read More Catbite – Musikfest – Bethlehem, PA – 8/14/22
Now becoming a Musikfest regular, Swing That Cat made their 3rd appearance at the fest on August 5th which is also the opening night. They were once again in the Frank Banko Cinemas Lutron Jazz Cabaret stage, but the potential rain for the night seemed to have scared away a decent amount of the crowd.… Read More Swing That Cat – Musikfest – Bethlehem, PA – 8/5/22
On the last day of Musikfest, I was asked to photograph a new band from the Conshohocken, PA, known as Devixe. Having just released two songs into the world, mere days before their Musikfest performance, Devixe is still a young band having formed prior to COVID. This might be a first for Musikfest’s free stages,… Read More Devixe – Musikfest – Bethlehem, PA – 8/14/22
Summer kicked off right when it was known that Fitz And The Tantrums and St. Paul & The Broken Bones were touring together around the summer timeframe. However, there is always one drawback to the outside summer concerts, the weather, and the Bethlehem date got the worst of it with heavy down pour of rain.… Read More Fitz And The Tantrums / St. Paul & The Broken Bones / Seratones – Levitt Pavilion Steel Stacks – Bethlehem, PA – 6/12/22
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