{"id":49341,"date":"2025-12-01T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49341\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:52:32","slug":"train-parker-mccollum-join-musikfest-2026-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49341\/","title":{"rendered":"Train, Parker McCollum join Musikfest 2026 lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rock band Train and country music artist Parker McCollum will stop in the Lehigh Valley this summer for Musikfest.<\/p>\n<p>The festival announced Monday that Train, known for songs such as \u201cHey Soul Sister\u201d and \u201cDrops of Jupiter,\u201d will play Aug. 3. Country rock musician George Pippen will join Train as a special guest. The Grammy Award-winning band previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2023\/08\/14\/train-rolls-through-musikfest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">played at the festival in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkermccollum.com\/#\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McCollum,<\/a> known for songs such as \u201cBurn it Down\u201d and \u201cPretty Heart,\u201d will perform Aug. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for both shows will be available 10 a.m. Friday for the general public, and are available now for ArtsQuest members.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Country musician Parker McCollum will perform Aug. 7 at Musikfest in Bethlehem. Photo courtesy of Musikfest.\" width=\"4800\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/TMC-L-MusikfestHeadliner-1202-01-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9391807\" \/>Country musician Parker McCollum will perform Aug. 7 at Musikfest in Bethlehem. Photo courtesy of Musikfest.<\/p>\n<p>Three other headliners have been announced for the festival so far: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/11\/18\/this-emmy-winning-comedian-is-headlining-musikfest-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comedian John Mulaney on Aug. 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/11\/17\/musikfest-2026-weird-al-yankovic-bailey-zimmerman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comedy artist \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic on Aug. 4, and country musician Bailey Zimmerman on Aug. 6.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musikfest, which takes place on Bethlehem\u2019s North and South sides, will run July 31 to Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<p>A largely rain-free festival last summer led to a record-breaking attendance of nearly 1.45 million over the 10-day festival.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2757JUST ANNOUNCED\u2757<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/train?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@train<\/a> returns to Musikfest on August 3rd with special guest George Pippen! Tickets go on sale this Friday (12\/5) at 10 a.m. at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a8vnZtGM58\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/a8vnZtGM58<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTr3OUQ9Za\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wTr3OUQ9Za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Musikfest (@Musikfest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Musikfest\/status\/1995508496863826032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock band Train and country music artist Parker McCollum will stop in the Lehigh Valley this summer for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1681,182,1213,22777,289,432],"class_list":["post-49341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-entertainment","tag-local-news","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-musikfest","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49341","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=49341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}