ArtsQuest’s ‘Marketing Musikfest’ Classes to Announce Selected Bands Performing at Musikfest 2025
Partnership with Bethlehem Area School District prepares students in the fields of arts programming, business, marketing and public relations.
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at SteelStacks, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley, PA – ArtsQuest, along with students from its Marketing Musikfest class from both Freedom and Liberty High Schools, will host a press conference to announce this year’s selected bands that will perform at Musikfest 2025.
The seven bands, including the winner of F.A.M.E. (Freedom’s Amazing Musicians and Entertainers), will perform at Plaza Tropical on Saturday, August 2, starting at 12 p.m. Each musician will perform a 40-minute set.
Speakers include Superintendent Dr. Jack Silva, BASD: Patrick Brogan, Chief Programming Officer; and students from both Freedom and Liberty High Schools. There will be time for a brief Q&A after the speakers conclude.
*Marketing Musikfest is a unique hands-on educational experience that allows students to apply the programming, budgeting and marketing skills they learn in class to a real-life setting at Musikfest.
About ArtsQuest
ArtsQuest’s mission is to provide access to exceptional artistic, cultural and educational experiences using arts and culture as key elements of economic development for our urban communities. ArtsQuest™ supports this mission via the presentation of performing and visual arts, film, arts education classes and outreach, youth programming and cultural events. Through festivals such as its flagship event, Musikfest; the ArtsQuest Creative Factory powered by PPL; and the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks arts and cultural campus, ArtsQuest’s programming reaches more than 1.9 million people annually. The organization’s programs and events, of which nearly 40 percent are free to attend, have a combined economic impact of more than $136 million annually in the region.
Information provided to TVL by:
Bryn E. Keeney
