ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Half of one of the biggest country music duos will play a headline show at The Great Allentown Fair's grandstand in August, it was announced Wednesday.
Tyler Hubbard, who with partner Brian Kelly as Florida Georgia Line had more than 20 No. 1 hits, will perform on Aug. 31.
Tickets are $52, $62 and $72, and include admission into the fair. They go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 3 at Ticketmaster.com and special box office hours will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. that day.
- Tyler Hubbard, half of the country music duo Florida Georgia Line, will headline The Great Allentown Fair
- Hubbard will play the second night of the fair, Aug. 31
- Tickets, at $89 and $69, go on sale 10 a.m. Feb. 3
Opening for Hubbard's show at the fair will be Matt Stell, who has amassing more than half a billion on-demand streams with back-to-back No. 1 hits “Prayed For You” and “Everywhere But On."
The show is the third headliner to be announced for the fair's grandstand lineup. Previously announced was four-time Grammy Award winner Keith Urban, who will return to the fair Sept. 3, and classic rockersStyx and REO Speedwagon, who will perform on the fair's first night Aug. 30.
The fair is scheduled to run Aug. 30-Sept. 4.
Hubbard last year had the country chart No. 1 hit "5 Foot 9" and in 2021 had the Top 20 hit "Undivided" with Tim McGraw.
Hubbard will release his self-titled solo debut album on Jan. 27.
Hubbard, with Florida Georgia Line, last played Allentown as the opening act for Luke Bryan – a sold-out show.
He also played Allentown's PPL Center with Florida Georgia Line in 2017.
Florida Georgia Line’s song "Cruise" is the best-selling country song in history, selling 11 times platinum, and was perhaps the seminal moment in what became the hybrid genre of "Bro Country," and Florida Georgia Line has become the genre's foremost practitioner.
Propelled by what Rolling Stone magazine called its "boundary-pushing, polarizing songs and devil-may-care personas," the pair has seen its first four albums all hit No. 1 on the Country chart, and the first two sell double platinum and platinum, respectively.
In just four years, it had had 11 singles hit No. 1, with 10 of those selling platinum and seven at least double platinum.
Florida Georgia Line released its debut independent EP, "Anything Like Me," in 2010.
A second EP, "It'z Just What We Do," in 2012, included "Cruise," an ode to the open road, and got the duo signed to Republic Nashville Records. The duo's debut full-length album, "Here's to the Good Times," also included "Cruise," which was its first single.
After the song's re-release with Nelly in April 2013, "Here's to the Good Times" not only hit No. 1 on the Country chart, but also crossed over to hit No. 4 on Billboard's overall chart.
The duo that year won the Academy of Country Music Awards' New Artist of the Year and New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year.
Allentpwn Fair was canceled by COVID in 2020, and last year ran just a three-show grandstand lineup instead of its normal six-show offering, as the concert industry recovered.
Fair Marketing and Entertaining Manager Jessica Ciecwisz said the grandstand will offer a full line-up in 2023, and expects to announce another headline act on Friday.
