{"id":233848,"date":"2026-07-02T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:56:08","slug":"macungie-band-to-perform-july-4-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233848\/","title":{"rendered":"Macungie Band to perform July 4 \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published July 02. 2026 11:39AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Macungie Band<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Old Fashioned Fourth of July concert<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Macungie Band will make its annual appearance at the Old Fashioned Fourth of July celebration at Macungie Memorial Park, 50 N. Poplar Street, Macungie, 11:30 a.m. July 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Audience members may relax on the benches in front of the park band shell under shade trees or bring a lawn chair to sit back and enjoy the music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Associate Director Douglas Bolasky will conduct. Bolasky led the band from 1984 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The holiday program is to include the selections \u201cThe Spirit of \u201876\u201d by composer Clare Grundman; \u201cSt. Louis Blues,\u201d by composer W.C. Handy; \u201cStar Spangled Spectacular\u201d by composer John Cacavas; \u201cRodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s \u2018Oklahoma\u2019,\u201d a medley of favorite songs from the musical arranged by John Edmondson; \u201cLet Freedom Ring\u201d a medley of patriotic songs arranged by Kenny Bierschenk; \u201cBroad Stripes and Bright Stars\u201d by composer Robert Longfield and \u201cArmed Forces: The Pride of America,\u201d a work arranged by Larry Clark and Greg Gilpin featuring the official songs of five of the service branches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Visit the website www.macungieband.com and social media www.facebook.com\/TheMacungieBand for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 02. 2026 11:39AM Macungie Band Old Fashioned Fourth of July concert The Macungie Band will make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-233848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233848","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=233848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}