The Summer in the City series presents The Dynamic Duo from noon-1:30 at PP&L Plaza

Kids for America are at the Promenade Shops

The Sellersville Theater presents Satisfaction: A Rolling Stones Experience

Kelly and Fahad are at the Center Valley Tavern

Todd Snider is at Bear Creek

Leechboy is at Mezza Luna 

New Amsterdam is at the Coplay Saengerbund at 6 PM

Catch On Fire is at the Comfort Suites

Tim Harakal is at the Wired Café

The Dynamic Duo is at Rookies

The Jim Ridl Quartet does Jazz at the Deerhead Inn

The Kutztown Folk Festival continues through Sunday.    

The Sherman Theater hosts A Celebration of American Song at 3 PM

Godfrey Daniels presents Electric Farm

The Mauch Chunk Opera House features Steve Brosky and Jimmy Meyer

The Sellersville Theater hosts Almost Queen

Check out The Comancheros at Grumpy's

The Billy Bauer Band at Starter's Pub

Notorious Groove is at Mezza Luna

Catch KC Blues & Jazz Night with David Basse and the Bill Goodwin Quartet at the Deerhead Inn

Leechboy is at PJ Whelihan’s

Big Bone Daddy is at the Blue Monkey

Blither is at the Rock & Roll Café

Check out Mary Hawkins and Don Mayer at the Old Mill Inn

On Fire is at the Comfort Suites

The Sarah Ayers Band is at the Geryville Publick House

The Sarah Ayers Band is at the Blue Mountain Vineyards at 2 PM

Lehigh Valley Folk Music Society performs at the Ontelaunee Rod and Gun Club at 4

Guitarist Walt Bibinger does jazz at the Deerhead Inn from 5 ‘til 8

Penn's Peak presents The Black Crowes

The Dynamic Duo is at Magnolia's Vineyard

Notorious Groove is at the Nazareth Borough Park

Head to Glenside for  Dibbs Preston  and the Detonators at the Blue Comet

The King of Prussia Summer Concert Series presents The Mango Men at 7 at the Upper Merion Township Building Park

July 10th - Penn's Peak presents The Dark Star Orchestra

July 10th - The Sellersville Theater hosts The Howard Jones Electric Duo

July 11th - The Sellersville Theater hosts Herman's Hermits

July 11th  - Penn's Peak presents The Mickey Hart Band

July 11th - Godfrey Daniels presents Steve Forbert, sponsored by WXLV

July 12th - The Mauch Chunk Opera House features Ryan Shupe and The Rubberband

July 12th - Godfrey Daniels presents Zen For Primates, sponsored by WDIY

July 15th - The Sellersville Theater hosts Shelby Lynne

July 17th - Jazz saxophonist David Sandborn is at Moravian's Foy Hall

July 18th - Godfrey Daniels presents Donovan Roberts

July 19th - Godfrey Daniels presents Frog Holler.  

July 25-27 - The 17th Annual Pocono Blues Festival is at Big Boulder. 

August 2nd - Crocodile Rock Café (Sponsored by USA Progressive Music) presents Dark Empire, Odin's Court, And Suspyre

The 9th Annual Out Among the Stars Bluegrass Festival will be held at the Benton Rodeo Grounds, Benton, PA from July 3, 4, 5, 6.  Check out their website for more information.

The Appalachian Fiddle and Bluegrass Association holds their 20th Annual Bluegrass Festival from July 31, Aug 1, 2, 3 at Mountain View Park, Wind Gap, PA. Check out their website for more information.

The 7th Annual Hickory Festival will be held at the Stony Fork Creek Campground in Wellsboro, PA from August 15-17.  Check out their website for more information.

The Greenwood Furnace Folk Gathering takes place Sept. 12-14 at the Greenwood Furnace State Park.  There will be workshops, jams, contradance and concerts including the Druckenmillers.  Check out their website for more information.

The 25th Annual Lyons Fiddle Festival takes place Sunday September, 21st at the Lyons Community Park in Lyons, PA. Check out their website for more information.

The Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival will take place in Hamden, CT on Friday and Saturday, September 26-27.  Featured Performers will include Tina Bergmann & Bryan Thomas,  Dan Duggan & Tom Hodgson and Neal Hellman . 

The Festival will also include many workshops featuring both the mountain dulcimer and the hammered-dulcimer.  Workshop leaders will include: Doug Berch, Heidi Cerrigione, John Cerrigione, Michael Cicone, Bill Collins, Carrie Crompton, Amir ElSaffar, Ron Ewing, Robert Force, Rudy Gabrielson, Sandy Lafleur, Steve Miklos, Donna Missigman, Bernie Stolls, Susan Trump, Dwain Wilder, Nina Zanetti, and more! The specific list of workshops (and their times) will be posted on the website after it is finalized.

Lehigh Valley Sacred Harp Singers has a get together the 2nd Sunday of each month from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM at Touchstone Theater.  For more information contact Vicki Haller vickihaller@gmail.com,

The Endless Mountain Shape Note Singers meets one Sunday a month at St. Stephens Church inWilkes-Barre, PA.  Check out their website for more information.

Check out independent & foreign film at The 19th Street Theatre and Theatre 514. 

Son of Rambow runs through July 6

Shine A Light runs from July 4 – 6. at Theatre 514

The South Side Film Festival presents independent films in its Third Thursday Series

Come to Touchstone Theatre for inspiration about acceptance, love, and coming to terms with our deepest fears. Fat Pig, a play by Neil Labute, opens Wednesday in Bethlehem, as part of the Omicron Theatre Project. This Omicron Theatre Project will be on stage at Touchstone Theatre until July 13th.

Ken Freehill will be performing his forty-five minute first person original reviews of Teddy Roosevelt and Will Rogers at  Landhaven Bed & Breakfast in the village of Huffs Church at 1194 Huff’s Church Road, Barto PA 19504.  Come see Teddy Roosevelt on Saturday July 12 at 8 PM and Will Rogers on Sunday July 13 at 2 PM. Ken Freehill is an accomplished actor of stage, screen and television and playwright. His forty-five minute first person original reviews have been performed in Texas, Kentucky, New Jersey and Tennessee.

Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre presents a treat for children aged four to ten on the college’s campus in Allentown. Learn important life lessons about friendship while watching A Year with Frog and Toad, which opens Wednesday at the Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance. Coming up next week, the rock opera, The Who's Tommy takes stage for three weeks.

Twelfth Night will be on stage through Sunday at DeSales University in Center Valley, as part of the annual Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Center Valley. Come to enjoy this romantic comedic feast, with lovers and fools, twins, merry deceptions, and mistaken identities.

Also selected for this year’s festival are Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand. The Green Show, with Renaissance music, dance, and clowning, will again be presented outdoors before the evening performances.

Wallflowers…wake up and join the fun! Come to Bethlehem Sundasy evening to the The Lehigh Valley Folk Dance Society International Folk Dancing at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley on Sunday July.6th.

Coming up this Thursday, June 12th, the Allentown Arts Park Dance Series, which features outdoor dance performances, will present swing dance with Adam Swift. The event will take place at Fifth Street between Hamilton & Linden Sts.

The spoken word and visual art are woven together in a new exhibit at the Allentown Art Museum, which opens Sunday with an afternoon reception. Transitions IV: A Collection of Fiber Art and Poetry grew out of an artist residency at Program for Women and Families, led by artist Cassandra Stancil Gunkel and poet Marilyn Hazelton.

POPMART in Bethlehem is displaying paintings and furniture of Chris P. Jones and Christi Garton through Friday.

All That Glitters can be seen at the Baum School of Art in Allentown! Opening this week is the Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths’ exhibit of jewelry by the society’s members.

Opening Saturday at the Banana Factory in South Bethlehem is Trench Cuisine: A Rock Band’s Recipe for Semi-success. Craig Matis chronicles the journey of his band, Uzizi, with lyrics, 25 visual panels, and audiotapes.

Monsoon Gallery’s exhibit entitled In Bloom: The Art of Flowers will be on display through next Wednesday. Take a tour through this virtual garden, created by four artists, in south Bethlehem. The exhibit features unique approaches by Ann Schlegel, Nava Mentkow, and Kate Birch. The exhibit runs through July 9th

Paintings by Seymour Boardman and Other Abstract Expressionists is at the Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation in Jim Thorpe with musical performances, poetry readings, and arts discussions. The exit runs May 24 - Labor Day

The Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center, on Lehigh University’s campus presents several exhibits:

Elaine Ling’s Photography of Tibet, Part II The Artist-in-Residence provides documentation of travels to Tibet. Supported by the Visiting Lecturer’s Committee of Lehigh University In conjunction with the university visit of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, July 10–15

Pok Chi Lau: Time-lapse Diptych Visions: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The exhibit runs May 7–July 27

Richard Redd: Encaustic Paintings Celebrating 50 years in the Lehigh Valley. Abstracted images and motifs, including the earth, roots and cycle of life, use the ancient classical method that combines beeswax and pigments. The exhibit runs May 7–July 27

In Kutztown, the New Arts Program continues with the 19th Invitational Salon of Small Works, recent works by national and international artists. The works measure up to 200 square inches and are in a diversity of styles and media, including vide

The Rauch Business Center Gallery, features David Haas Photography: The Mack Truck Project, a collection of Black and white photographs continue on exhibit.

Works by Tony Rubel, past president of the Carbon County Art League will be featured at the T.S. Rubel Art Gallery of the Carbon County Art League in Jim Thorpe starting this weekend. Called Point of View, the show is a tribute to the late Mr. Rubel.

The Allentown Art Museum continues it's exhibit entitled The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche and the Council of the Gods. Fourteen etchings by German printmaker Susanna Maria von Sandrart reproduce fresco designs by Raphael. William Wegman's exhibt Faym is at the Kress Gallery through September 7, 2008

An Artistic Discovery, The Congressional High School Art Competition & Exhibition, featuring artwork by local high school students, will be featured at the Baum School of Art t in Allentown. The winner of this competition will have their work displayed in the Halls of Congress for one year.

The James A. Michner Art Museum in Doylestown. PA, is offering the exhibit, Color – Ten African American Artists – a show offering more than 30 creations by artists from across the country reflecting diverse backgrounds and personal histories.  This exhibit runs through July 6th . For more information, check out their website or call 215-340-9800.

The World We Built features the pen and ink drawings as well as photography of Bethlehem Steel and surrounding areas by Will Cooney. The exhibit is at Visualize 4146 East Rock Road in Allentown.  For more information call 610-709-8669.

The Lehigh County Historical Society’s Heritage Museum is hosting World War II: Together in Victory, the human drama of the war recounted through personal stories, original uniforms worn by military personnel and by civilian home-front volunteers, official posters used to inspire the American public, authentic newsreel reports of the war, archival photographs and other military and home-front memorabilia are on display.

In downtown Bethlehem, the Historic Bethlehem Partnership Tours is offering two tours on Saturday. The Segway Tour involves a two-and-a-half-hour ride on an electric, two-wheeled, self-balancing personal transporter. The tour departs in the morning from the Segway of the Lehigh Valley.

If you prefer a stroll, join John Adams’s Bethlehem Walk, which departs from the Welcome Center in the afternoon.

There are two opportunities in the coming week to hear the Allentown Band. They will present their annual "Sousa Concert" on Friday, July 11th at 7:30pm and again play on Tuesday evening, July 15th at 7:30pm. Both concerts will be held at West Park, 16th and Turner Streets in Allentown.

Tim Zimmerman and the King's Brass will be making joyful noise at Central Moravian Church on Sunday, July 13th at 6pm. The Nine-member King's Brass will perform hymn classics with a contemporary flair joined by organist Rebecca Kleintop Owens, director of music at Central Moravian Church performing on the church's newly restored and enhanced four manual Moeller and Walker organ. Central Moravian Church is located at Church and Main Sts. in Bethlehem. For more information call: 610-866-5661.

Also, on July 13th The Royalaires Band will be in concert at Emmaus Community Park, 1401 Shimerville Road in Emmaus, Pa. For more information call 610-966-4968.

Looking forward to the end of the month, The Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra will continue its Valley Vivaldi Concert series at Wesley Church in Bethlehem on Sunday, July 27th. The Sunday evening concert will feature works by Purcell, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Chardon and Bach. For more information call 610-434-7811.

July 4: Marine Band Of Allentown Allentown Fireworks, 7:30 p.m.

July 4: Bethlehem Legion Band, Bethlehem City Center 7:30 p.m.,

July 4: Quakertown Band at Quakertown Community Day, rain date July 5, 7:30 p.m

July 4: Pioneer Band Of Allentown at Moravian Village, Bethlehem, 3 p.m.

July 5: Pioneer Band Of Allentown at East Texas Park, Lower Macungie Twp, 7 p.m..

July 5: Pioneer Band of Allentown, East Texas Park Lower Macungie, 7-8 p.m.

July 5: Slate Belt Band at Tatamy Parade, 5 p.m.

July 6: Municipal Band Of Allentown West Park, 7:30 p.m

July 6: Pioneer Band Of Allentown at Grim Homestead, Whitehall, 4 p.m

July 6: Bethlehem Municipal Band at the Bethlehem Rose Garden, 7:30 p.m.

July 6: Allentown Municipal Band at West Park, 16th and Turner St., 7:30 p.m.

July 6: Palmerton Band, Palmerton Brough Park, 7 p.m. Rain location, Borough Hall,

July 6: Quakertown Band at Pennridge Community Day, rain date July 13, 4 p.m.

July 8: Allentown Pioneer Band at West Park, 16th and Turner St., 7:30 p.m..

July 8: Quakertown Band at White's Road Park, Lansdale, shine only, 7 p.m.

July 9: Slate Belt Band at Country Meadows, Bethlehem, 7:30 p.m.

July 11: Allentown Band at West Park, 16th and Turner St., 7:30 p.m.

July 12: Allentown Pioneer Band, Midway Manor, 7 p.m.

July 12: Pioneer Band Of Allentown at Midway Manor, Allentown, 7 p.m.

July 12: Lehigh Valley Italian American Band, Strolling on Main Street, 2 p.m.

July 13: Allentown Marine Band at West Park, 16th and Turner St., 7:30 p.m.

July 13: Marine Band Of Allentown West Park, 7:30 p.m.

July 13: Nazareth Community Band at Meuser Park, 7 p.m.

July 13: Bethlehem Municipal Band Dimmick Park, Hellertown, 7 p.m.

July 13: Marine Band Of Allentown West Park, 7:30 p.m.

July 15: Allentown Band at West Park, 16th and Turner St., 7:30 p.m.

July 16: Pioneer Band Of Allentown at Phoebe Home, Allentown, 7 p.m.

July 16: Quakertown Band at Quakertown National Bank, rain location Trinity Lutheran Church, Quakertown, 7 p.m.

July 17: Lehighton Band, Lehighton Park Ampitheater, 8 p.m.

July 18: Bethlehem Municipal Band at the Bethlehem Rose Garden, 7:30 p.m

July 19: Lehighton Band, Trachsville Lutheran Church , Trachsville, 6 p.m.

July 19: Allentown Band, Mack Pool, 7 p.m.

July 19: Easton Municipal Band at the Bethlehem Rose Garden, 7:30 p.m.

July 19: Nazareth Community Band Nazareth Day at Borough Park, 10 a.m.-noon

July 20: Easton Municipal Band, Scott Park, Derriere on the Delaware, Easton, 1 p.m

July 20: Allentown Pioneer Band, Youth Concert at West Park, 7:30 p.m.

July 20: Lehighton Band, Eurana Park, Third Street, Weatherly, 7 p.m.

July 20: Pioneer Band Of Allentown at West Park, 7:30 p.m.

July 20: Bethlehem Legion Band at the Bethlehem Rose Garden, 7:30 p.m.

July 23: Catasauqua Band, North Catasauqua Park, Grove Street, 7 p.m. rain date July 30

July 24: Pioneer Band Of Allentown atCedarbrook, 724 Delaware Ave., Fountain Hill, 7

July 25: Macungie Band West Park, Allentown, 7:30 p.m.

July 25: Allentown Band at West Park, 16th and Turner St., 7:30 p.m.

July 25: Pioneer Band of Allentown at the Bethlehem Rose Garden, 7:30 p.m.

July 26: Pioneer Band Of Allentown at Emmanuel Church, Allentown, 7 p.m

July 26: Slate Belt Band at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Procession, 6:15 p.m.

July 26: Allentown Municipal Band, Irving Park, 7 p.m.

July 27: Slate Belt Band at Meuser Park Concert, 7 p.m.

July 27: Bethlehem Municipal Band at the Bethlehem Rose Garden, 7:30 p.m.

July 29: Allentown Band at West Park, 16th and Turner St., 7:30 p.m.

The Easton YMCA is hosting the tenth annual family firecracker four-mile run and walk Friday July 4, 2008 at Fairview Park in Palmer Township, Easton PA.  Registration starts at 7:00 AM and will end at 8:20 AM.  The run begins at 8:30 AM and the walk will begin at 8:35 AM.  Register early at their website or call 610-258-6158 for more information.

The Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley is offering the Points of Light Youth Leadership Institute to high-school aged youth.  PYLI is a training program designed to prepare young people for leadership roles in their communities.  Curriculum includes classroom instruction as well as observed training.  Training will occur from July 7 to July 11th from 9 to 2 and will take place in the Volunteer Center office in Bethlehem.  Applications and more information can be found at their website.

Have you got rhythm? Well, the Riverview Arts Center in Phillipsburg, NJ has music and clogging! All children between ages 6 and 12 have been invited to join the Lehigh Valley Cloggers.

Name that butterfly! On Saturday July 26th, come to Hawk Mountain and learn the common names of butterflies with Karl Gardner followed by a walk in the outdoors. Also, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is now accepting applications for its 2008 Raptor Camp.  Young nature enthusiasts who are entering fourth and fifth grade have to opportunity to learn about incredible birds of prey through hands-on lessons, outdoor exploration, and other crafts and activities.  Parents may select from two sessions, July 21 through July 25 or August 4 through 8. 

The Allentown Art Museum hosts The Tenth Annual City Arts Cultural Camp for children will be held at the museum from June 23rd through June 27th. It’s a zoo in there! Animals big and small are lurking in the Museum. Enjoy a week of zany fun with our many furry and feathery friends! It’s designed to give children ages eight through 12 exposure to the worlds of art, history, dance, theater, and music in the cultural heart of Queen City. Further information is available at their website or call 610 433 0032

For its support, the Youth Media Project thanks the Crayola Company, enhancing learning opportunities for young people.

The Bethlehem Parent Tree Parent Support Group is up and running.  It is held Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:0-0 PM at Fritz Memorial Methodist Church located on the corner or Montclair and Packer Avenue just to the north and west of Lehigh’s campus in South Bethlehem.   The group is offered free of charge by Project Child and Valley Youth House.  Refreshments will be provided and childcare is available and free of charge.  For more information, please contact Project Child at (610) 954-9561 X37