August 4-13 is the largest free music festival in the country with every imaginable genre on parade in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Musikfest has its paid stage (Santana, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Father John Misty, Live, Godsmack, Toby Keith, The Band Perry, Aloe Blacc and Lee Brice & Justin Moore) but the heart and soul of this fest are the hundreds of free acts playing night and day in two different neighborhoods. I’ve witnessed bands from South Africa, Cuba, Israel, Harlem, New Orleans and other exotic locales as I munched on Portuguese meat sandwiches and gulped from my mug of warm red wine. For more info, hit musikfest.org. Don’t forget to get the free phone app that will tell you where stuff is in real time. See you there!
