{"id":49156,"date":"2025-12-01T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:48:09","slug":"grammy-winning-band-to-bring-three-decades-of-hits-to-musikfest-2026-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49156\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning band to bring three decades of hits to Musikfest 2026 in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"

ArtsQuest announced Train<\/a> will perform at Musikfest 2026<\/a> as the festival\u2019s fourth headliner, taking the stage at the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. Country rock singer-songwriter George Pippen will serve as special guest.<\/p>\n

Tickets become available Monday, Dec. 1, for ArtsQuest members and Friday, Dec. 5, for the general public at ArtsQuest.org<\/a>. The concert is being presented with media partner 100.7 WLEV.<\/p>\n

The multi-Grammy Award-winning band has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide since forming in San Francisco in 1994. Train has amassed over six billion global streams and placed 14 songs on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s breakthrough came with their 1998 self-titled debut album released by Columbia, featuring the radio hit \u201cMeet Virginia.\u201d Their 2001 album \u201cDrops of Jupiter\u201d achieved multi-platinum status and earned them a double Grammy win for the title track. The band\u2019s 2009 single \u201cHey, Soul Sister\u201d became their No. 1 best-selling smash hit.<\/p>\n

Both \u201cHey, Soul Sister\u201d and \u201cDrops of Jupiter\u201d have reached RIAA Diamond status and surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. Train has released 13 albums on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, with six reaching the Top 10.<\/p>\n

Opening act Pippen, originally from Carmel, Indiana, built a following through TikTok by posting original songs that blend country, folk, and pop. He released his debut single \u201cIndiana Knows My Name\u201d in May 2024, followed by \u201cSpeedin\u201d and \u201cSilence in the Suburbs.\u201d His debut EP \u201cMagnolia Nights\u201d was released later that year. Pippen has headlined honky tonks and opened for Megan Moroney.<\/p>\n

Musikfest 2026 is scheduled for July 31 through Aug. 9. The 11-day festival attracted 1,449,000 attendees in 2025 and featured over 500 free performances across 16 stages located throughout north and south Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

Generative AI was used to draft this story based on information provided by ArtsQuest. It was reviewed and edited by lehighvalleylive.com staff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ArtsQuest announced Train will perform at Musikfest 2026 as the festival\u2019s fourth headliner, taking the stage at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-49156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49156","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=49156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}