BETHLEHEM, Pa. — As Musikfest gets closer, the festival's efforts to sell tickets to its main stage headliner acts apparently is intensifying.
So the festival announced Wednesday that it will hold a 2 1/2-day sale to give buyers tickets to four SteelStage headliners for just $25 each.
- ArtsQuest will hold a sale for four of the shows by Musikfest headliners at $25 each
- The sale will run 12 a.m. Thursday through 11:59 p.m. Saturday online only at musikfest.org/sale
- The shows are Walk The Moon on Aug. 4, G-Eazy on Aug. 5, Keith Sweat & Monica on Aug. 8 and El Gran Combo on Aug. 11.
Starting at midnight Thursday through 11:59 p.m. Saturday, you can get tickets to alt-pop band Walk the Moon on Aug. 4, rapper G-Eazy on Aug. 5, R&B acts Keith Sweat & Monica on Aug. 8 and salsa group El Gran Combo on Aug. 11.
Starting at midnight Thursday through 11:59 p.m. Saturday, you can get tickets to alt-pop band Walk the Moon on Aug. 4, rapper G-Eazy on Aug. 5, R and B acts Keith Sweat and Monica on Aug. 8 and salsa group El Gran Combo on Aug. 11.
Musikfest this year will celebrate its 40th anniversary. It will stretch from its usual 10-day run to 11 days, Aug. 3-13 in downtown and South Side Bethlehem.
The sale will be only online and no promotional code will be needed to access the offer.
There will be 500 tickets available for each show, with a limit of eight tickets sold at a time, and the sale will continue while supplies last.
The offer is not valid for Steel Terrace tickets or Oasis passes, nor on previously purchased tickets. Taxes still apply.
Slower-selling shows
The announcement from ArtsQuest does not specify which seats are available, but the cheapest non-sale tickets are $25 for Walk The Moon, $20 for G-Eazy, $29 for Keith Sweat & Monica and $10 for El Gran Combo. All of those prices would normally have additional fees.
An unofficial survey of the ticketing site show the performances are the slower-selling ones for Musikfest's lineup.
According to the interactive ticket site at www.musikfest.org, El Gran Combo still has scores of seats available in the sections of Steel Stage closest to the stage (at $35) and hundreds available in the more distant sections.
Walk The Moon has even more seats available in the closest sections (at $45 and $69) and few sold in the most distant sections.
G-Eazy has sold respectably in the closest sections (at $59 an $69), but few in the grandstand sections (at $25). The same is true for Keith Sweat & Monica, with closer seats costing $85 to $109, and bleacher seats $29 and $35.
The sale will not include tickets to AJR on opening night Aug. 3 — the site shows no tickets available to that show — country duo Dan + Shay on Aug. 6, country singer Walker Hayes on Aug. 7, Goo Goo Dolls on Aug. 9, comedian Gabriel Iglesias on Aug. 10 or Marin Morris on closing night Aug. 12.
Go to musikfest.org/sale for more information and to buy tickets.