{"id":107006,"date":"2026-02-06T14:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:04:06","slug":"musikfest-nominated-by-usa-today-for-best-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107006\/","title":{"rendered":"Musikfest nominated by USA Today for best music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musikfest is among 20 music festivals in the country nominated by USA Today for best music festival as part of the publication\u2019s \u201c10Best\u201d series.<\/p>\n

Readers have until March 2 to vote for the festival, which takes place every summer in Bethlehem. Those who wish to vote may do so at 10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/musikfest-bethlehem-pennsylvania\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Musikfest<\/a>, now in its 43rd year, takes place in both the north and south sides of the city. The festival has drawn over 1 million guests in recent years.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s festival runs from July 31 to Aug. 9. Headliners announced so far are comedian John Mulaney; rock bands Train, Yellowcard, Taking Back Sunday and AJR; parody artist \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic; and country superstars Bailey Zimmerman and Parker McCollum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Musikfest is among 20 music festivals in the country nominated by USA Today for best music festival as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,182,22777,139,432],"class_list":["post-107006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-local-news","tag-musikfest","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}