{"id":246581,"date":"2026-07-18T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246581\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:07:09","slug":"bethlehems-blast-furnace-blues-in-full-swing-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246581\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem&#8217;s &#8220;Blast Furnace Blues&#8221; in full swing | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mentioned we could see some severe weather tomorrow but tonight&#8230;. We got a little break and some outdoor events were able to take place as planned<\/p>\n<p>With the smoke clearing over Bethlehem, Blast Furnace Blues: Stars Stripes And Steel is in full swing at SteelStacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it. It&#8217;s great. It gets better every year,&#8221; says Francis Repash, Salisbury Twp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday was definitely an indoor day and today is an outdoor day,&#8221; says Dave Hochella, Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s concert had to be moved indoors due to the poor air quality<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a little nervous,&#8221; says Tamie Swain, Coordinator, Summer Harvest Food Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Tamie Swain, a coordinator with Summer Harvest Food Drive, is out at the festival collecting donations for local pantries.<\/p>\n<p>She says she&#8217;s happy the weather held out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wednesday night we had all the rain so we had to be inside and I couldn&#8217;t figure out how they would do that with this event so I&#8217;m really glad that it&#8217;s cleared up,&#8221; says Swain.<\/p>\n<p>As concert goers enjoy the nice conditions Friday night, severe storms are looming Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say they&#8217;ll closely monitor the forecast, and make adjustments to events as needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re always closely watching the weather and trying to do what&#8217;s best for our guests and our bands,&#8221; Cory Stevens, Executive Director, Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mentioned we could see some severe weather tomorrow but tonight&#8230;. We got a little break and some outdoor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,2088,153,155,154,805],"class_list":["post-246581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246581","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=246581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}