{"id":116449,"date":"2026-02-17T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116449\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:56:09","slug":"top-country-music-act-that-nearly-sold-out-allentown-fair-ppl-center-coming-to-wind-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116449\/","title":{"rendered":"Top country music act that nearly sold out Allentown Fair, PPL Center, coming to Wind Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 A country music artist who nearly sold out Allentown&#8217;s PPL Center in 2020 then almost did the same at Allentown Fair&#8217;s grandstand last summer is coming to a much smaller Lehigh Valley stage.<\/p>\n<p>Kane Brown, best known for his 11-times-platinum hit &#8220;Heaven&#8221; and his nine-times-platinum hit \u201cWhat Ifs\u201d with Lauren Alaina, will perform at Wind Creek Event Center at 8 p.m. April 23, it was just announced.<\/p>\n<p>    Tickets, at $79.50-$179.50, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20 at the event center website or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>Wind Creek Event Center website<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, at $79.50-$179.50, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windcreekeventcenter.com\/events\/kane-brown\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQBaWtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJ2WEJ2a2JNRFM5b0tNSEk3c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhR8M36cmHhj-0q-VLP0g9jUQnz64rtr-2QIMqq2fjKqQXiewuwKsnVTtNVK_aem_1l6XyL1wmo4sMremApUUFQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at the event center website<\/a> or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s most recent album, &#8220;The High Road,&#8221; was released a year ago and hit No. 2 on the Country Albums chart and crossed over to the Top 10 on the overall Albums chart.<\/p>\n<p>It already has produced the double-platinum, No. 1 Country Airplay hit, \u201cMiles On It (featuring Marshmello)&#8221;; the gold, No. 1 Country hit &#8220;I Can Feel It&#8221;; and the No. 2 Country hit &#8220;Backseat Driver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s first two albums went to No. 1 on the country chart, and he has had 38 gold and platinum hits in less than a decade \u2014 with 13 of them hitting No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>His singles have sold a head-spinning 75 million copies.<\/p>\n<p>Success through his career<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s recording career started with a whirlwind three years beginning with his platinum debut single \u201cUsed to Love You Sober.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His 2016 self-titled debut disc topped the Country Albums chart, crossed over to No. 5 on Billboard\u2019s overall Albums chart, and sold triple platinum.<\/p>\n<p>    Brown performed a near-sellout show at Allentown&#8217;s PPL Center, which seats 10,000 people for concerts, in 2020, and had a near-sellout at Allentown Fair grandstand, which seats 10,500, in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Concert history<\/p>\n<p>He won three American Music Award country categories \u2014 Male Artist, Country Album and Country Song \u2014 for \u201cHeaven,\u201d and was nominated for the Academy of Country Music\u2019s New Male Vocalist of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s second album, \u201cExperiment\u201d in 2018 charted even higher, crossing over to No. 1 on the overall Albums chart. It produced the No. 1 hits \u201cLose It,\u201d which went triple platinum, and \u201cGood As You, which sold four-times platinum.<\/p>\n<p>That gave him four straight No. 1 singles.<\/p>\n<p>Brown also has collaborated with artists of other genres. His song &#8220;Saturday Nights&#8221; (Remix) with Khalid sold four times platinum, and &#8220;One Thing Right&#8221; with electronic DJ Marshmello, three times platinum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Thing Right\u201d also topped the country charts.<\/p>\n<p>His third album, 2022&#8217;s &#8220;Different Man,&#8221; sold platinum and peaked at No. 2 on the Country chart, but produced the triple platinum hit &#8220;Thank God (with Katelyn Brown)&#8221; and three No. 1 hits \u2014 &#8220;Like I Love Country Music,&#8221; &#8220;One Mississippi&#8221; and &#8220;Bury Me in Georgia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown performed a near-sellout show at Allentown&#8217;s PPL Center, which seats 10,000 people for concerts, in 2020, and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/arts-culture\/entertainment\/review-country-singer-kane-brown-at-allentown-fair-is-real-and-really-good\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">had a near-sellout at Allentown Fair grandstand,<\/a> which seats 10,500, in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Wind Creek Event Center seats 2,650 for concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 A country music artist who nearly sold out Allentown&#8217;s PPL Center in 2020 then almost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,7771,55377,55378,55379],"class_list":{"0":"post-116449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-bethlehem-and-concerts","12":"tag-kane-brown-and-bethlehem","13":"tag-kane-brown-and-wind-creek-event-center","14":"tag-wind-creek-event-center-and-concerts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116449","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=116449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}