Another year has passed and it's time for Musikfest. The biggest and best event of the year here in the Lehigh Valley. I know you Allentowners think the Allentown Fair is the premier event but please - The Allentown Fair has it's charm but it is hardly the cultural event that is Musikfest. A redneck wonderland vs bringing the worlds music to Bethlehem. Musikfest may get a few stupid, sloppy drunks (how can they afford it) but I can almost imagine the meth dealers in the shadows behind the sheep cages. The Red Elvises vs rhubarb pie bake off, the demolition derby that occurs after a night at Musikfest is free and due to stupid people with out a designated driver, at the Allentown Fair you are charged admission to see car accidents.
I am coming off as a snob here but so be it. Only the truth is spoken here.
Some of the townies here in the Christmas City, the naysayers, complain about Musikfest and wish it would go away. To those sad sacks I say get over it, get a grip and get real. There are hundreds of towns and cities in this country that would kill to have something like this to attract thousands of people to it's central business district(s) every day for ten days. The economic benefits to this city from Musikfest are countless. People who come here for these ten days will come back in more quiet times to eat at our restaurants, shop at our stores and put quarters in our parking meters. Note the success of downtown Bethlehem vs the other downtown's in the area.
Speaking of which, I look forward every year to reading the letters to the editor in the Morning Call from people who received a parking ticket complaining about how rude the city was for giving them a ticket. Of course they are so self absorbed that it does not occur to them that had they not parked illegally they would not have received a ticket.
It will be interesting to see this year if both the Sands and Musikfest benefit from each other.
Welcome Musikfest I am glad your here and I am even gladder that I can come home from work, park my car in our off street parking, put on some shorts and sneakers and mosey the three blocks I have to walk to get to AmericaPlatz.
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