Historic Bethlehem will transform into a street festival Sunday, July 12, as the community celebrates America’s semiquincentennial with live music, food vendors and family activities.<\/p>\n
The America250: A Bethlehem Block Party<\/a> is scheduled to run from noon to 5 p.m. along Main and West Broad streets, marking both the nation’s 250th anniversary and Central Moravian Church’s 275th anniversary.<\/p>\n The event is organized in partnership with the City of Bethlehem and Northside Alive<\/a>, a community revitalization initiative of the city and Community Action Development Corp. of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n Multiple stages will feature continuous entertainment throughout the afternoon. Life After Dead will perform from 1 to 4 p.m. on the 1 W. Broad St. stage, while Twelve String takes the ESU stage near West Broad and Guetter streets from noon to 1 p.m. and again from 4 to 5 p.m. DJ Dannyboy will provide music along Main Street for the event’s duration.<\/p>\n The Central Moravian Church Green will host a rotating schedule of performances, starting with The Edge Band at noon, followed by East Hills Praise Band at 1 p.m., The Gate Band at 2 p.m. and The Stank Factory led by Patrick Kerssen at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n Food will be available from Edge Restaurant, 515 Main Sports Club and Central Moravian Church. The Melting Pot of Bethlehem and McCarthy’s Red Stag Pub & Whiskey Bar will operate outdoor bars.<\/p>\n Family activities include face painting, a balloon artist and a car show on Main Street. More than a dozen vendors plan to participate in the street fair, including Aardvark Sports Shop, Bethlehem Christmas Shoppe & Hand Cut Crystal, Bitty & Beau’s Coffee Shop, CapturedLV Escape Room and Franklin Hill Vineyards.<\/p>\n Many merchants are offering special discounts tied to the Revolutionary War era. Bitty & Beau’s Coffee Shop will sell all bags of coffee for $17.76, while AM Luxe Apparel will take $17.76 off regular-priced items. The Melting Pot of Bethlehem will discount all food by 25%.<\/p>\n Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites will provide live demonstrations outside the 1750 Smithy, offer free Moravian Museum admission and discount Bethlehem & the Revolution tours.<\/p>\n Visit visithistoricbethlehem.com<\/a> for additional details.<\/p>\n more bethlehem area news<\/p>\n Read the original article on lehighvalleylive.com<\/a>. Add lehighvalleylive.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic Bethlehem will transform into a street festival Sunday, July 12, as the community celebrates America’s semiquincentennial with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,26401,3485],"class_list":["post-241035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-city-of-bethlehem","tag-historic-bethlehem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241035","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=241035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}