Highmark Blue Shield Community Stage on the Air Products Town Square: August Shows

The Highmark Blue Shield Community Stage on the Air Products Town Square has been bringing music to the community for the past 3 summers. With bands that will stick around in your ear far after you’ve left SteelStacks campus, we hope you can make it out to groove in good company!

So what do you say? Come out and crack open a cold soda or a Yuengling while you enjoy the sweet sounds of summer!  All shows are 9pm to 11pm, including Open Mic, and food orders can be placed at the bar!

Now let’s take a look at what have in store for August!

Thursday, August 18th

Great White Caps

Bethlehem’s Great White Caps have been on an endless summer vacay since they threw in the towel back in 2014, but that hasn’t stopped this Beach Rock foursome from sticking their heads above water once every summer.

The group has previously shared the stage with Dick Dale, as well as opening for The Ventures here in the Musikfest Cafe. Don’t miss this very rare chance to catch their wave before it fizzles back to shore!

Friday, August 19th

The Wonton Soups

The Wonton Soups are a quirky and lovable horn band from Bethlehem, PA. Blending experience from musical theater, jazz, orchestra, Drum Corps and self taught musicians, The Soups have curated a unique sound influenced by pop punk, ska, jazz, swing and big band.

Expect to hear spicy original music and creative takes on covers you forgot you loved. 

Accolades:

Voted Lehigh Valley’s most handsome ska band (2019)

Awarded “Most Trombones” in South Bethlehem, PA (2020)

“Best in Soup” at 2021 North American Soup Championships

Thursday, August 25th

Open Mic

Friday, August 26th

Taylor Kelly

Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Taylor Kelly is now a fixture in the vibrant Philadelphia music scene further honing her introspective take on jazz, soul, and funk. She combines her smooth, powerful, technically-informed voice with a full horn section, addictive hip hop and electronic beats, and complex arrangements. Her sound is a dynamic blend of several established genres: she melds the improvisational looseness of jazz, the rhythmic earworms of funk and the moving resonance of soul to carve out a niche all her own.

Kelly names Stevie Wonder, Chet Baker, Roy Hargrove, Art Farmer, and Erykah Badu as influences, integrating strong melodic contour and intricate harmonies into lyrically personal and sonically anthemic tracks.

Kelly was a finalist in the PHL LIVE Center Stage Competition for R&B in 2018, has amassed over half a million listens for her single “California” on Spotify, and has uplifted, inspired, and energized thousands of ardent concertgoers at hundreds of live shows with her unabashed authenticity and immersively freeing performance style.

Saturday, August 27th

Canyon Flower

Canyon Flower was formed by John Welsh (Philadelphia) and Mike Elliot (New Jersey) in 2020 when they discovered Josh Lis and Andrew Cerniglia imprisoned within the hidden city beneath the earth’s mantle.

The ensuing journey to free their comrades formed an unbreakable bond that inspired the slow and heavy psychedelic metal music indicative of the molten igneous rock from which the band was born.