{"id":261473,"date":"2026-08-08T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261473\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:28:09","slug":"weird-al-does-musikfest-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261473\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWeird Al\u201d does Musikfest \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published August 08. 2026 12:52AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, with opening act, Puddles Pity Party, performed Aug. 4, Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza, Musikfest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">His \u201cBigger and Weirder\u201d tour show was a multimedia comedy rock show with his long-time band jointed by four additional musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Yankovic, a five-time Grammy Award winner, is known for his parodies of hits by Madonna, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Queen, U2 and Lady Gaga, including \u201cAmish Paradise,\u201d \u201cEat It,\u201d \u201cLike a Surgeon\u201d and \u201cSmells Like Nirvana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY SHERI BAYNE\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic channels the band Devo, Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza, Musikfest, Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY SHERI BAYNE\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic performs his parody song, \u201cSmells Like Nirvana,\u201d Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza, Musikfest, Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY SHERI BAYNE\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza, Musikfest, Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY SHERI BAYNEPuddles Pity Party opened for \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza, Musikfest, Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY SHERI BAYNEPuddles Pity Party, Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza, Musikfest, Aug. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 08. 2026 12:52AM \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, with opening act, Puddles Pity Party, performed Aug. 4, Wind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-261473","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\/261473","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=261473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}