{"id":113249,"date":"2022-08-11T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113249"},"modified":"2022-08-11T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:49:13","slug":"through-the-lens-of-musikfest-students-to-learn-about-live-event-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113249","title":{"rendered":"Through the Lens of Musikfest, Students to Learn about Live Event Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>ArtsQuest, PNC partner to offer the PNC Backstage Experience<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 PNC and ArtsQuest are excited to collaborate with Bethlehem Area School District (BASD) to give students enrolled in the district\u2019s English for Speakers of Other Languages program a special backstage experience at Musikfest this year on Sunday, Aug. 14, from noon to 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This year, students will enjoy a field trip to the Wind Creek Steel Stage for a special musical adventure featuring one of the 2022 Musikfest headliners, Grammy-award winning Olga\u00a0Ta\u00f1\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>During the PNC Backstage Experience, students will sit in on a pre-show soundcheck to learn about all the exciting behind-the-scenes action that takes place before a concert.<\/p>\n<p>Their day will include meeting with Ta\u00f1\u00f3n\u2019s tour manager, members of the production and programming team, and those involved in community relations and sponsorship. They will also get to talk with Ta\u00f1\u00f3n\u2019s producer, Marie, to get an inside scoop on her career journey.\u00a0<span lang=\"EN\">Ta\u00f1\u00f3n is an award-winning Puerto Rican pop singer\/songwriter. She will headline the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza\u00a0<\/span>on Sun., Aug. 14,<span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0the closing night of the 39<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0annual flagship \u2018fest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">This isn\u2019t the first Musikfest that BASD students got an exclusive backstage experience thanks to PNC. The students have been thrilled to learn about the inner-workings of the music business, and some even showed interest in their own musical careers. ArtsQuest and PNC are pleased to work with the school district once again to continue cultivating appreciation for arts and music in the Lehigh Valley community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nKelley Andrade, ArtsQuest<br \/>\nPublic Relations Coordinator<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/\">http:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArtsQuest, PNC partner to offer the PNC Backstage Experience BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 PNC and ArtsQuest are excited to collaborate with Bethlehem Area School District (BASD) to give students enrolled in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Through the Lens of Musikfest, Students to Learn about Live Event Production<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5717,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bethlehem","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/backstage-experience.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}