{"id":171004,"date":"2026-04-20T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171004\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:01:09","slug":"josh-shapiros-campaign-will-co-host-this-allentown-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171004\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Shapiro\u2019s campaign will co-host this Allentown festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Shapiro\u2019s campaign will co-host Allentown\u2019s popular \u201cFiesta on Hamilton\u201d event as he seeks support for a second term as Pennsylvania\u2019s governor this November.<\/p>\n<p>The free street festival, which premiered last May, will return 1 to 7 p.m. May 17 to Hamilton Street between 8th and 12th streets, featuring performances bymerengue singer Milly Quezada, salsa artist Charlie Cruz and bachata group Optimo. Other sponsors of the festival include La Mega radio station, the City of Allentown, Allentown Chamber of Commerce and Valley Health Partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn partnering with La Mega on Fiesta on Hamilton, the Shapiro for Pennsylvania campaign will participate in one of the Lehigh Valley\u2019s largest celebrations of Latino culture and work directly with local small businesses, restaurants, musical performers, creators, cultural leaders, and local officials to keep bringing our communities together,\u201d states a news release from Shapiro\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro is facing a challenge from GOP state Treasurer and Army veteran Stacy Garrity in the gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>Latino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/10\/25\/election-latino-voters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voters are a highly courted swing voting bloc in Pennsylvania<\/a> \u2014 there are an estimated 580,000 Latino voters in the state, and Allentown\u2019s population is over 50% Latino.<\/p>\n<p>Fiesta on Hamilton was announced shortly before the cancellation of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/04\/01\/dominican-festival-allentown-canceled\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> popular Allentown Dominican Parade in 2025.<\/a> Parade organizers said they could not afford outstanding costs from the prior year\u2019s event, which led them to call it off.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the headlining acts, this year\u2019s festival will\u00a0include a second stage dedicated to showcasing local artists and performers, along with a family health fair, Latino food and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Shapiro\u2019s campaign will co-host Allentown\u2019s popular \u201cFiesta on Hamilton\u201d event as he seeks support for a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,836,182,139,50,432],"class_list":["post-171004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-election","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171004","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=171004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}