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A Celebration of America: ArtsQuest’s 15th Annual Blues Festival Returns with Star-Spangled Flair

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Celebrate America’s 250th at the former Bethlehem Steel site, where the sounds of one of America’s foundational music genres echo beneath the historical blast furnaces. Feel the rhythm with electrifying sets from the Larry McCray Band, toe-tapping tunes in the style of Delta, Piedmont, Texas and Gospel Blues by Jontavious Willis, fiery blues-rock vocalist Dana Fuchs and Ireland’s rising blues star Grainne Duffy and many more, including Lehigh Valley’s own The BC Combo.

One Earth Reggae Festival to Return for a 5th Year at the ArtsQuest Campus at SteelStacks 

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ArtsQuest is thrilled to announce that the One Earth Reggae Festival, presented in partnership with Movement Moves Media, returns for a 5th year on Saturday, July 11, 2026. The event starts at 12 p.m. and has performances across three different stages (Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks presented by Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Jefferson Health, the Highmark Blue Shield Community Stage on the Air Products Town Square and Williams Brew Stage) until 1:30 a.m.

Final Musikfest Headliner, Third Eye Blind to Jam Out on The Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza with Special Guest St. Lucia!

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Since 1997, San Francisco’s Third Eye Blind have recorded ten best-selling studio recordings, two live releases and assembled one career retrospective selling 12 million records worldwide. Led by Stephan Jenkins, Third Eye Blind won wide success during a tumultuous group of years when the major-label recording industry was finally losing its grip on an enterprise that for decades it had dominated with steely efficiency. Nothing could have made Third Eye Blind happier!