About Ernie Reed

Ernie Reed is publisher of Lehigh Valley Happening and owner of Lehigh Valley Advertising LLC, a local advertising agency specializing in helping small to medium sized businesses realize their marketing and branding goals. Ernie has degrees in journalism and marketing. For comments and suggestions email Ernie@LehighHappening.com

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY AUGUST 2

Where can you go to see the first piece of steel rolled at the Bethlehem Iron Company or the longest commercially operated portable steam engine? America’s newest museum and the Lehigh Valley’s latest attraction, the National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH) will be opening its doors for the first time on Tuesday, August 2nd. Museum [...]

ArtsQuest Holding One Day Sale Friday at SteelStacks

As the mercury starts to soar, ArtsQuest’s hottest deals of the year are set to kick in with the ArtsQuest One Day Sale at SteelStacks July 8th. The event, which takes place at the ArtsQuest Center, 101 Founders Way, features special offers on all Musikfest and Yuengling Summer Concert Series shows, as well as select [...]

The Avett Brothers to Close Out Musikfest 2016 on Aug. 14

Chart-topping folk-rock group The Avett Brothers will send Musikfest out with a bang when they perform Aug. 14, 8 p.m., on the Sands Steel Stage. Tickets are available at www.musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. The North Carolina-based Avett brothers have been described by the San Francisco Chronicle as having the "heavy sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the light pop [...]

SIX-TIME GRAMMY WINNERS LADY ANTEBELLUM TO HEADLINE MUSIKFEST AUG. 13

Chart-topping, six-time GRAMMY winners Lady Antebellum will headline Musikfest 2016 when the group performs Sat., Aug. 13, 7 p.m., at the festival’s Sands Steel Stage. Tickets are available at www.musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. Formed in Nashville in 2006, Lady Antebellum quickly rose to stardom on the strength of hits like “I Run to You” and “Love [...]

Disney Star Sabrina Carpenter to Headline Hometown Show at Musikfest Aug. 12

The Lehigh Valley’s own Disney darling, Sabrina Carpenter, will headline Musikfest Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m., when she performs at the festival’s Sands Steel Stage. Tickets are available at www.musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. A native of Lower Milford Township, Carpenter is best known for her role as Maya Hart in the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World, a sequel [...]

BUSH & Chevelle to Rock Musikfest’s Main Stage Aug. 11

It’s an electrifying night at Musikfest as BUSH & Chevelle perform Aug. 11 at the festival’s Sands Steel Stage. Tickets for the concert, which gets underway at 6 p.m., are $44-$69. They’ll be available at musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. Following the success of their multiplatinum debut album Sixteen Stone in 1994, British rock band BUSH went on [...]

GRAMMY Winner Don Henley to Headline Musikfest Aug. 10

Photo by Danny Clinch GRAMMY winner and Eagles founding member Don Henley will headline Musikfest when he performs Aug. 10, 8:30 p.m., at the festival’s Sands Steel Stage. Tickets are available at musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. As vocalist, drummer and frequent frontman for the Eagles, Henley anchored the group as they made music history [...]

Iconic Rock Band BOSTON Set to Headline Musikfest Aug. 9

Photo credit Kamal Asar BOSTON, the dynamic rock group that took the world by storm with its multi-platinum selling debut album in 1976, will headline Musikfest 2016 when it rocks the festival’s Sands Steel Stage Aug. 9, 8:30 p.m. Tickets are available at www.musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. Launched by studio technician, producer and musician [...]

Country Superstar Dierks Bentley to Headline Musikfest Aug. 7

Chart-topping country superstar Dierks Bentley wants fans to ‘Come a Little Closer’ when he headlines Musikfest with a Sands Steel Stage performance Aug. 7, 7 p.m. Tickets are available at www.musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. Debuting with two platinum selling records - Dierks Bentley in 2003 and Modern Day Drifter in 2005 - Bentley rose to stardom on [...]

Hip-Hop Legends Run-D.M.C. Set to Headline Musikfest Aug. 6

Iconic hip-hop group and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Run-D.M.C. want you to “Walk This Way” when they headline Musikfest Aug. 6, performing 7:30 p.m. at the festival’s Sands Steel Stage. Tickets are available at www.musikfest.org and 610-332-3378. Founded in 1981 in Queens, N.Y., Run-D.M.C. is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts [...]