BETHLEHEM, Pa. — One of the most successful songwriters and record producers will perform an intimate evening of music with his singer/actress wife at Wind Creek Event Center, it has been announced.
David Foster and wife Katharine McPhee will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 9, 2024.
Also announced was a show by groundbreaking English progressive rock band Yes, with its Classic Tales of Yes Tour accompanied by an on-site art gallery, will play at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21.
- David Foster and Katharine McPhee will play Wind Creek Event Center at 8 p.m. May 9, 2024
- Iconic progressive rock group Yes will play the event center at 8 p.m. Sept. 21
- Tickets, at $35-$69.50 for Foster and McPhee, and $49.50-$79.50 for Yes, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 21
Tickets, at $35-$69.50 for Foster and McPhee, and $49.50-$79.50 for Yes, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 21, at the event center box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem, at www.windcreekeventcenter.com or 800-745-3000.
Foster, McPhee accomplishments
Foster, 73, has been nominated for 47 Grammy Awards and won 16, including three for Producer of the Year. He also has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and three times has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
He started his career as a studio musician and performer in 1973 and in 1979, co-wrote Earth, Wind and Fire’s song “After the Love Has Gone,” which won the 1980 Grammy for Best R&B Song.
In 1984, he produced Chicago’s biggest-selling album, “Chicago 17,” and co-wrote its No. 1 hit “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” as well as “Love Me Tomorrow,” “Stay the Night” and “You’re the Inspiration,” and singer Peter Cetera’s No. 1 solo hit “Glory of Love” in 1986.
Foster later created hit songs and award-winning gold and platinum albums for Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Andrea Bocelli, Michael Buble, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Hall & Oates, ‘NSync, Boz Scaggs and more.
His new musical about Betty Boop, “BOOP! The Musical,” is scheduled to make a pre-Broadway debut in fall in Chicago.
McPhee, 39, was runner-up to Taylor Hicks on “American Idol” in 2006, and since has starred in films, TV and Broadway. She had a lead role on the NBC-TV series “Smash” in 2012-13, and from 2018-20 played the lead role in the Broadway musical “Waitress.”
While on “American Idol,” McPhee had a Top 15 Billboard single with her rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and in 2007, her self-titled debut album reached No. 2 on Billboard, and produced the Top 30 single “Over It.”
Her sophomore disc, 2010’s “Unbroken,” also charted Top 30 and had the Top 25 Adult Contemporary hit “Had It All.” That same year, she released a Christmas disc that reached No. 11 on the Holiday chart and had a Top 20 Adult Contemporary hit with “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” featuring Chris Botti.
McPhee’s latest disc, “I Fall in Love Too Easy,” released in 2017, reached No. 2 on the Jazz chart.
With "Smash," McPhee from its Top 10 soundtrack album had a Dance Club hit with “Touch Me.”
McPhee also had the lead role on the CBS-TV drama “Scorpion” from 2014-18, and in 2021 had the lead role in the Netflix series “Country Comfort,” which was canceled after one season.
In all, she has appeared in more than a dozen television roles, and a half-dozen movie roles, including in the 2008 hit “The House Bunny” and most recently in last year’s “The Tiger Rising.”
Yes has new album, storied past
Yes in May released its 23rd studio album, “Mirror to the Sky,” its first studio album with drummer Jay Schellen, who joined following the death of longtime member Alan White in 2022.
The album is dedicated to White.
In addition to Schellen, the band includes guitarist Steve Howe from the band’s classic lineup, Asia keyboardist Geoff Downes and vocalists Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood.
Yes in the past 55 years has produced 13 gold and platinum albums and a half-dozen Top 40 hits.Recording Industry Association of America data
Yes in the past 55 years has produced 13 gold and platinum albums and a half-dozen Top 40 hits.
Its biggest U.S. success was the triple-platinum album “90125” in 1983. That disc produced the No. 1 song “Owner of a Lonely Heart” in 1983.
Yes started with its self-titled album in 1969 and in 1971 had its first platinum album, “The Yes Album,” and, later that year, the double-platinum “Fragile.” Those albums produced the iconic songs “I’ve Seen All Good People: It’s Your Move” and “Roundabout.”
In all, the group had eight Top 10 albums from 1971-78.
