{"id":37209,"date":"2025-11-18T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37209\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:46:07","slug":"things-are-about-to-get-weird-weird-al-yankovic-coming-to-the-lehigh-valley-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/37209\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are about to get weird: \u2018Weird Al\u2019 Yankovic coming to the Lehigh Valley | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Musikfest organizers have revealed another major headliner set to take the Wind Creek Steel Stage next summer.<\/p>\n<p>ArtsQuest announced the second Musikfest 2026 headliner, \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, will be coming to the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza on August 4, 2026, with special guest Puddles Pity Party, according to a press release from ArtsQuest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic is the biggest-selling comedy recording artist in history. \u202fA 5-time Grammy Award winner, he is best known for his parodies of the biggest musical artists over the last 4 decades, including Madonna, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Queen, U2 and Lady Gaga, all with their personal blessings.<\/p>\n<p>His many hits include \u201cAmish Paradise,\u201d \u201cEat It,\u201d \u201cLike a Surgeon,\u201d \u201cSmells Like Nirvana,\u201d \u201cWord Crimes,\u201d and the platinum-selling \u201cWhite &amp; Nerdy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His last album \u2018Mandatory Fun\u2019 is the only comedy album in history to debut at #1 on the\u202fBillboard\u202fTop 200.<\/p>\n<p>Yankovic\u2019s live shows have entertained audiences across generations, including appearances at venues such as Radio City Music Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks, Carnegie Hall, Wolf Trap, The Kennedy Center and Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Yankovic produced and co-wrote the Emmy-winning biopic WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, starring Daniel Radcliffe in the title role.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"75th Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/65a5dce5e660a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Radcliffe, left, and &#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic arrive at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n<p>                                    Richard Shotwell<\/p>\n<p>A performer\u2019s performer, Puddles Pity Party has received endorsements and accolades from musical comedy legends like Jack Black, Michael McKean, Drew Carey, Nick Offerman, John C. Reilly, Paul Reubens and Maynard Keenan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, Puddles one-of-a-kind \u201ctextured voice laced with melancholy\u201d (NY Times) has been hailed as \u201coperatic\u201d (Boston Globe) and his show both \u201clife-affirming\u201d (Herald Scotland) and \u201chysterical\u201d (Rolling Stone).<\/p>\n<p>Ticket access begins Monday, Nov. 17 for ArtsQuest Members and Friday, Nov. 21 for the general public at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ArtsQuest website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Musikfest organizers have revealed another major headliner set to take the Wind Creek Steel Stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,22878,22880,22777,22879,22745],"class_list":["post-37209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-comedy-music","tag-grammy-award","tag-musikfest","tag-puddles-pity-party","tag-weird-al-yankovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37209","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=37209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}