QUAKERTOWN, Pa. — There was a time when singer Taylor Swift played the Lehigh Valley area often: Allentown Fair, Crocodile Rock Cafe, Santander Performing Arts Center and Pat Garrett Amphitheater.
Swift’s too big to play any of those places these days, but Quakertown’s Univest Performance Center will bring what may be the next best thing to its Summer Concert Series.
Let’s Sing Taylor — A Live Band Experience Celebrating Taylor Swift, which calls itself “the ultimate tribute to the music of Taylor Swift,” will perform June 15 at the center, at 301 W. Mill St.
“We can show you incredible things, including the most faithful and lively covers of Queen Taylor’s expansive and sacred catalog.”News release announcing Taylor Swift tribute show Let's Sing Together
That makes it the opening show to this year’s Sounds of Summer Series.
Tickets, at $28 for lawn seating and $38 to $68 for reserve seating, go on sale at 8:30 a.m. April 8 on the Univest Performance Center website.
The show asks Swift fans — known as Swifties — to come to the show dressed in Taylor attire and “to sing your hearts out” during it.
“We can show you incredible things,” a news release for the show says, using lyrics from Swift's hit song "Blank Space."
“Including the most faithful and lively covers of Queen Taylor’s expansive and sacred catalog.”
Six Sounds of Summer Series shows
The show is the sixth to be announced for the Sounds of Summer series at the amphitheater. Tickets remain available for every show.
Scotty McCreery, who won “American Idol” in 2011 and since has released three No. 1 Country chart albums, will perform at 6 p.m. June 21. Tickets are $42 lawn and $62 to $147 reserved.
LoCash, which had three Top 10 Country chart hits, including 2016's No. 1 "I Know Somebody," will perform at 6:30 p.m. July 19. Tickets are $35 lawn to $120 for front-row seats.
Southern rockers .38 Special, best known for the 1981 hit “Hold on Loosely” and 1982’s “Caught Up in You,” will perform Aug. 16. Tickets for that show are $40 lawn and $50-$120 reserved.
The Hooters, the Philadelphia band best known for hits 1980s hits "Day By Day" and "And We Danced," will perform at 6 p.m. Aug. 23. Tickets are $40 lawn and $50-$70 reserved.
And Blues Traveler and Big Head Todd and The Monsters, who together in the 1990s had five gold and platinum albums and hits including "Run-Around" and “Bittersweet,” will perform Aug. 24. Tickets are $40 lawn and $50-$130 reserved.
