{"id":224946,"date":"2026-06-22T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224946\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:35:10","slug":"music-monday-guitarist-jon-fadem-music-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224946\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Guitarist Jon Fadem | Music Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; This summer will mark the 20th consecutive year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonfadem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">guitarist Jon Fadem<\/a> of Hellertown has played at Musikfest.<\/p>\n<p>He was nominated Best Guitarist at the Lehigh Valley Music Awards for six consecutive years and performs often in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Jon joined 69 News at Sunrise on Music Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He had a great ending to 2025. He signed with a record label and released his first album, &#8220;Thankful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the album is a collection of original instrumental tunes that he wrote. Jon said he played all the instruments except for drums, which were played by John Kimock.<\/p>\n<p>He said his style is a combination of jazz and rock.<\/p>\n<p>The album marked Jon&#8217;s transition into solo performance. Jon said he and a Grateful Dead tribute band he plays in, Life After Dead, will perform this Saturday at Musikfest Cafe in Bethlehem at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; This summer will mark the 20th consecutive year that guitarist Jon Fadem of Hellertown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,157,22777,97722],"class_list":["post-224946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-musikfest","tag-the-lehigh-valley-music-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224946","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=224946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}