Musikfest
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Musikfest is a music festival held each August in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The festival begins on the first Friday in August and ends on a Sunday ten days later.
1,000,000 visitors each year make the trip to Historic Bethelem to participate in this celebration that weaves through a Moravian Community that dates to the late 1600's. These 1,000,000 visitors (100,000 daily) are subject to somehwere between 700 and 1,000 free shows at the festival with one main pay venue each night. In 2005, headlining guests included George Thoroughgood, Jethro Tull, and George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic.
But music makes up only half of the what makes musikfest fantastic. Food is the star of the show from the time booths open at noon to the shut down each night at about 10:45pm. Every ethnicity is repesented and everyone leaves with a full, happy stomach
Local German roots are a foundation of this celebration of music and each of the several venues' names end in the German word for place, "platz". A popular place for eating and listening to music is the large "Festplatz" that covers 300 dining tables and usually features a polka band.
Appearing Artists
- 2006: Styx, Alice in Chains, Heart, LL Cool J, Train, Kansas, Carrie Underwood, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Dr. John, The Machine, Kathy Mattea, David Cassidy, Chris Botti, and Big Lou's Polka Casserole
External link
- www.musikfest.org
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