ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A band that topped the pop-punk wave in the 2000s will play a headline show at Allentown Fair grandstand, it was announced Wednesday.
All Time Low, which had the hits “Dear Maria, Count Me In” in 2008 and “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)” and “Weightless” in 2009, will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 5.
Opening the show will be Taylor Acorn, a fast-rising pop-punk singer.
Tickets, at $81 for the standing pit, $71 for reserved track and grandstand and $61 for general admission grandstand, go on sale at 10 a.m. May 15 on the fair website or the fairgrounds box office.Allentown Fair
Tickets, at $81 for the standing pit, $71 for reserved track and grandstand and $61 for general admission grandstand, go on sale at 10 a.m. May 15 on the fair website or the fairgrounds box office.
It's the fourth grandstand headline show announced for this year's fair, set for Sept. 2-7.
Previously announced headliners were platinum country singer Warren Zeiders, who will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 4, Stars, Stripes & Slams wrestling at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3 and Local Legends Live, a celebration of local music, at 2 p.m. Sept. 6.
The Baltimore-based All Time Low's major-label debut album, “So Right It’s Wrong,” hit No. 14 on Billboard’s Rock Albums chart in 2007.
Its single "Dear Maria, Count Me In” sold four times platinum.
Continued success
The band's 2009 album “Nothing Personal” topped Rock chart, with the singles “Weightless” hitting platinum and "Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)" reaching gold sales.
Its 2011 album “Dirty Work” also topped the Rock chart, and later singles "A Love Like War" (featuring Vic Fuentes) and 2020's "Monsters" (featuring Blackbear or Blackbear and Demi Lovato), both also hit gold.
All Time Low's most recent disc, “Everyone's Talking!" broke the Top 200 on Billboard’s overall Albums chart,
In all, the band has had eight Top 25 hits on various charts.
All Time Low also headlined Bethlehem's Musikfest festival with Dashboard Confessional in 2018 in that festival's first headline show with a standing pit.
It also played to a crowd of about 2,000 at Sands Bethlehem Event Center, now called Wind Creek Event Center, in 2015 and to a sold-out crowd of 3,700 there with A Day To Remember in 2013.
Allentown Fair for years has had concerts with pit areas in front of the stage.
Pennsylvania native and Kutztown University alum Acorn self-released her debut disc, "Survival In Motion," in 2024. Her sophomore album, "Poster Child," was released in November.
She played a headline show at Allentown's Archer Music Hall that same month.
