A demeanour during this year’s Musikfest Sands Steel Stage headliners

View full sizeContributed PhotoPop-rock rope Maroon 5 performs Saturday night during Musikfest in Bethlehem.

The new Sands Steel Stage will horde an heterogeneous array of
artists trimming from choice stone veterans to Grammy Award-winning folk
singers to tween sensations.

Here is a relapse of who is personification and when and because we should
go:

Stone Temple Pilots
with Rose Hill Drive

When:
7:30 tonight

Tickets:
$47, $35

Known
for: “Interstate Love Song,” “Sex Type Thing,” “Plush,” “Big
Empty,” “Sour Girl,” “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart”

Why you
should go: STP is one of a few remaining early-’90s alternative
rock bands still going strong. Plus, it’s always fun to see what chronicle of
Scott Weiland will strut onto a stage.

Maroon 5 with P.J. Morton

When:
7 p.m. Saturday

Tickets:
$49, $39

Known
for: “Hard to Breathe,” “This Love,” “She Will Be Loved,”
“Misery” and “Makes Me Wonder.” Singer Adam Levine is also a decider on NBC’s hit
singing competition, “The Voice.”

Why you
should go: If we like your cocktail with a side of dance, afterwards Maroon
5 is a rope to see.

Miranda Cosgrove

When:
7:30 p.m. Sunday

Tickets:
$35, $25

Known
for: Her spin as a pretension impression on a Nickelodeon show,
“iCarly” and her work on a uncover “Drake Josh.” She expelled her debut
album, “Sparks Fly,” in 2010.

Why you
should go: Cosgrove creates cocktail strain that will keep a kiddies
entertained. In other words, an forgive to bond with a small ones while
enjoying a night underneath a stars.

Steve Miller Band

When:
8:30 p.m. Monday

Tickets:
$49, $39

Known
for: “Fly Like an Eagle,” “The Joker,” “Take a Money and Run,”
“Rock’n Me” and “Jet Airliner,” among other classical stone radio staples.

Why you
should go: Who doesn’t know a difference to “The Joker” or “Fly like
an Eagle”? Don’t fake like we don’t. Everyone knows during slightest one.

Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas

When:
7:30 p.m. Tuesday

Tickets:
$44, $34

Known
for: “Raising Sand,” her 2007 partnership with former Led
Zeppelin thespian Robert Plant.

Why you
should go: If we have always wondered what all a bitch was
about with bluegrass and folk, afterwards we competence wish to locate Krauss in action.
She combines both in expressive fashion.

Steely Dan

When:
7 p.m. Wednesday

Tickets:
$69, $49

Known
for: Tunes such as “Do It Again,” “Reelin’ in a Years,”
“Pretzel Logic” and their 2000 Grammy-winning album, “Two Against Nature.”

Why you
should go: C’mon, it’s Steely Dan. Do we unequivocally need a reason? Sure,
the tickets are a small pricey, though these are stone legends, after all.

View full sizeContributed PhotoA cappella organisation Straight No Chaser will perform Aug. 11 during Musikfest in Bethlehem.

Straight No Chaser

When:
8:30 p.m. Thursday

Tickets:
$37, $29

Known
for: A video of a men’s a cappella organisation behaving “The 12
Days of Christmas” was a viral hit, gaining some-more than 12 million views on
YouTube and in a routine alighting a five-album understanding with Atlantic Records.
Pretty impressive, huh?

Why you
should go: You consider we competence have listened it all. You’re wrong.
Not until you’ve listened to a cappella versions of Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love”
and Oasis’ “Wonderwall,” among other cocktail favorites.

Buckcherry with FUEL

When:
7 p.m. Aug. 12

Tickets:
$34, $22

Known
for: “Lit Up,” “For a Movies,” “Crazy Bitch” and “Too Drunk …”.

Why you
should go: You get 3 hard-rocking bands for a cost of one.
Buckcherry combines a strut of Guns N’ Roses with a Kiss-style riffs and
slabs of twisted guitar crunch.

Nick Jonas with Ocean Grove

When:
7 p.m. Aug. 13

Tickets:
$39, $29

Known
for: Being one-third of cocktail group/Disney tween sensations, the
Jonas Brothers.

Why you
should go: Jonas is a flattering rational dude, so it’s a protected bet
that we can move a whole family and not have to worry about F-bombs being
dropped during random.

Train with Gavin DeGraw and Nikki Jean

When:
7 p.m. Aug. 14

Tickets:
$44, $34

Known for: “Drops
of Jupiter (Tell Me),” “Meet Virginia”
and “Hey Soul Sister.”

Why you
should go: Train has some critical essence — and I’m not articulate about including a word in
the pretension of a song. It’s symphonic cocktail rock, though with unequivocally familiar hooks.

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