{"id":175373,"date":"2026-04-25T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T00:20:14","slug":"countryfest-artsquests-new-country-music-festival-coming-to-steelstacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175373\/","title":{"rendered":"CountryFest, Artsquest’s new country music festival, coming to SteelStacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new, free celebration of country music is coming this summer to the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n

CountryFest will be held Aug. 21-22 at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, ArtsQuest announced Wednesday in a news release.<\/p>\n

The two-day festival will bring \u201cthe heart and soul of country music\u201d to the region with live performances and food, ArtsQuest said.<\/p>\n

The new festival will feature nationally touring country artists, rising stars and local performers. Clayton Mullen, Luke Borchelt and Peytan Porter will perform, and there will also be tribute bands performing the music of country music stars Kenny Chesney and Lainey Wilson.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtsQuest\u2019s latest festival celebration, CountryFest, arrives not a day too soon for a genre that has been a mainstay for Lehigh Valley audiences for decades now,\u201d Patrick Brogan, ArtsQuest\u2019s chief programming officer, said in a news release. \u201cThe team here has put together a mix of emerging national country headliners of tomorrow alongside some truly talented acts \u2026 We can\u2019t wait to see where audiences take this festival in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Food vendors include Red Cedar Grill, Bacon on a Stick and Batch Microcreamey, according to ArtsQuest. Local artisans will also be there selling country-inspired handmade goods.<\/p>\n

More information can be found at artsquest.org\/festivals\/more-festivals-and-experiences\/countryfest\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new, free celebration of country music is coming this summer to the Lehigh Valley. CountryFest will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,1391,182,1213,139,434,28,289,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-175373","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","12":"tag-bethlehem-area","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-music-and-concerts","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-northampton-county","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-things-to-do","19":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175373","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=175373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}