{"id":185460,"date":"2026-05-06T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:49:06","slug":"platinum-selling-pop-punk-band-to-headline-allentown-fair-grandstand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185460\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum-selling pop-punk band to headline Allentown Fair grandstand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A band that topped the pop-punk wave in the 2000s will play a headline show at Allentown Fair grandstand, it was announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>All Time Low, which had the hits \u201cDear Maria, Count Me In\u201d in 2008 and \u201cDamned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don\u2019t)\u201d and \u201cWeightless\u201d in 2009, will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the show will be <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/arts-culture\/entertainment\/fast-rising-singer-coming-to-archer-music-hall-returns-to-pop-punk-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taylor Acorn, a fast-rising pop-punk singer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>    Tickets, at $81 for the standing pit, $71 for reserved track and grandstand and $61 for general admission grandstand, go on sale at 10 a.m. May 15 on the fair website or the fairgrounds box office.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Fair<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, at $81 for the standing pit, $71 for reserved track and grandstand and $61 for general admission grandstand, go on sale at 10 a.m. May 15 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownfair.com\/all-time-low\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on the fair website<\/a> or the fairgrounds box office.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the fourth grandstand headline show announced for this year&#8217;s fair, set for Sept. 2-7.<\/p>\n<p>Previously announced headliners were platinum <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/local-news\/fast-rising-country-music-singer-announced-as-allentown-fairs-first-headliner-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">country singer Warren Zeiders, who will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 4<\/a>, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/local-news\/allentown-fair-to-get-back-in-the-ring-with-return-of-grandstand-tradition\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stars, Stripes &amp; Slams wrestling at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3<\/a> and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/local-news\/first-of-its-kind-festival-of-local-bands-to-headline-allentown-fair-grandstand\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Local Legends Live, a celebration of local music, at 2 p.m. Sept. 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore-based All Time Low&#8217;s major-label debut album, \u201cSo Right It\u2019s Wrong,\u201d hit No. 14 on Billboard\u2019s Rock Albums chart in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>Its single &#8220;Dear Maria, Count Me In\u201d sold four times platinum.<\/p>\n<p>Continued success<\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s 2009 album \u201cNothing Personal\u201d topped Rock chart, with the singles \u201cWeightless\u201d hitting platinum and &#8220;Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don&#8217;t)&#8221; reaching gold sales.<\/p>\n<p>Its 2011 album \u201cDirty Work\u201d also topped the Rock chart, and later singles &#8220;A Love Like War&#8221; (featuring Vic Fuentes) and 2020&#8217;s &#8220;Monsters&#8221; (featuring Blackbear or Blackbear and Demi Lovato), both also hit gold.<\/p>\n<p>All Time Low&#8217;s most recent disc, \u201cEveryone&#8217;s Talking!&#8221; broke the Top 200 on Billboard\u2019s overall Albums chart, <\/p>\n<p>In all, the band has had eight Top 25 hits on various charts.<\/p>\n<p>All Time Low also headlined Bethlehem&#8217;s Musikfest festival with Dashboard Confessional in 2018 in that festival&#8217;s first headline show with a standing pit.<\/p>\n<p>It also played to a crowd of about 2,000 at Sands Bethlehem Event Center, now called Wind Creek Event Center, in 2015 and to a sold-out crowd of 3,700 there with A Day To Remember in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Fair for years has had concerts with pit areas in front of the stage.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Taylor Acorn\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/static.lehigh-v.lehigh-valley.production.k1.m1.brightspot.cloud\/dims4\/default\/7317324\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1280x720+0+0\/resize\/880x495!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flehigh-valley-brightspot.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2F57%2F0b%2F007bcbc04f638b202eac5927b820%2Funtitled-design-28.png\" loading=\"lazy\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSI0OTVweCIgd2lkdGg9Ijg4MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Weiner<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> Big Picture Media<\/p>\n<p> Singer Taylor Acorn will open for All Time Low at Allentown Fair in September.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania native and Kutztown University alum Acorn self-released her debut disc, &#8220;Survival In Motion,&#8221; in 2024. Her sophomore album, &#8220;Poster Child,&#8221; was released in November.<\/p>\n<p>She played a headline show at Allentown&#8217;s Archer Music Hall that same month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 A band that topped the pop-punk wave in the 2000s will play a headline show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[82828,82829,119,2537,70033,70832,82830,121,120],"class_list":["post-185460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-all-time-low-and-allentown","tag-all-time-low-and-allentown-fair","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-and-concerts","tag-allentown-fair-and-concerts","tag-allentown-fair-grandstand","tag-allentown-fair-headliners","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185460","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=185460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}