Blackwater, Great White and Overkill
The Top 3 Lehigh Valley area concerts this week include artists who have all put over 25 years of work into their music (a few closer to 40!), mastering their styles and continuing to embrace their sound with everlasting success and longevity.
If you’re a fan of traditional music, each group has got you covered, albeit in very different genres — Celtic folk/classical, hard rock, and thrash metal. From numerous lineup changes to changes in popular music, each of these bands has stuck to their guns and continues to embrace the music they popularized and embraced from their early days to now.
Blackwater
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Godfrey Daniels, 7 E. 4th St., Bethlehem
How much: $20.50-$25.50 Tickets: godfreydaniels.org 610-867-2390
Musical style: Celtic, Traditional, Folk
Known for hits like: “Fair Jeanie,” “Colligan Spring,” and covers of traditional Irish songs like, “Black is the Color,” and “Mary and the Soldier.”
Honors: The band was started right here at Quinny’s Pub in Bethlehem, PA 26 years ago. They’ve played numerous festivals, including Musikfest, The Smithville Irish Festival, Irish Festival at the Jersey Shore, GaelFest, Maryland Irish Festival, Shamrocks by the Sea Festival and The Celtic Classic. Check them out if you like: The
Chieftains, The Dubliners,
The Bothy Band, Gaelic Storm, Celtic Thunder
Great White
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Rd, Jim Thorpe
How much: $30-$35
Tickets: pennspeak.com 866-605-7325
Musical style: Hard Rock,
Heavy Metal, Hair Metal
Known for hits like: “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” “Rock Me,” “House of Broken Love.” Honors: They had two top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 — “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” and “The Angel Song.” Two of their albums, “Once Bitten,” and, “Twice Shy,” went platinum, the band has sold over 10 million records to date, and nine of their albums reached the top 200
Turn to Concerts,
Billboard albums charts. They released their first album “Shot in the Dark,” and EP “Out of the Night,” independently in 1983 selling over 20,000 copies without any label support.
Check them out if you like: Dokken, Guns N’ Roses, Thin Lizzy, Motley Crue, Skid Row, W.A.S.P.