BETHLEHEM, Pa. – With the smoke clearing over Bethlehem, Blast Furnace Blues: Stars Stripes and Steel was in full swing at SteelStacks.<\/p>\n
“I love it. It’s great. It gets better every year,” says Francis Repash of Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n
“Yesterday was definitely an indoor day and today is an outdoor day,” says Dave Hochella of Allentown.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s concert had to be moved indoors due to the poor air quality.<\/p>\n
“I was a little nervous,” says Tamie Swain, Coordinator at Summer Harvest Food Drive.<\/p>\n
Swain is out at the festival collecting donations for local pantries. She says she’s happy the weather held out.<\/p>\n
“Wednesday night we had all the rain, so we had to be inside, and I couldn’t figure out how they would do that with this event. So I’m really glad that it’s cleared up,” says Swain.<\/p>\n
As concert goers enjoy the nice conditions Friday night, severe storms are looming Saturday.<\/p>\n
Organizers say they’ll closely monitor the forecast and make adjustments to events as needed.<\/p>\n
“We’re always closely watching the weather and trying to do what’s best for our guests and our bands,” says Cory Stevens, Executive Director of Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – With the smoke clearing over Bethlehem, Blast Furnace Blues: Stars Stripes and Steel was in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30257,119,121,120,153,105452,14457,100495,101181,6664,634,105453],"class_list":["post-246361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-air-quality","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-blast-furnace-blues","tag-food-donations","tag-indoor-event","tag-outdoor-event","tag-smoke","tag-steelstacks","tag-weather-monitoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246361","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=246361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}