Larry the Cable Guy at the Sands: Your Weekend

A veteran of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Larry the Cable Guy has emerged as perhaps the biggest star of the southern fried standup comedy gang that also includes Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Ron White.

On Saturday night, Larry will “Git-R-Done” with two live shows at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center—at 6:30 and at 9:30.

Larry is no stranger to Bethlehem. As the host of the History Channel’s Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, he visited Musikfest in 2011 and cleaned porta potties for a show segment.

Tickets are from $49.50 to $89.50.

Here’s what else is going on in Bethlehem this weekend:

• Godfrey Daniels hosts Dave’s Night Out at 7 p.m. Friday with a discussion on the art of being a children’s performer with Dave Fry, singer Robbi K and Doug Roysdon, founder of the Mock Turtle Marionette Theater. Admission is $10 and $5 for students.

• Jimmy Buffett tribute band Jimmy and The Parrots brings the shaker and salt to the Musikfest Café at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10.

• Long-form improvisational comedy geniuses Mandudebro will try to save Christmas from the Fowler Blast Furnace Room in the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $8, less for students, seniors and ArtsQuest members.

• The legendary Smokey Robinson will sing at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center at 8 p.m. Friday. Robinson—known for 1960s Motown hits like “Shop Around,” “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me,” and “Tracks of My Tears”—has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, won a Grammy Living Legend Award, been lauded at the Kennedy Center Honors and received the National Medal of Arts Award. Tickets are from $49.50 to $69.50.

• Cupcake fans will unite at the Musikfest Café on Saturday afternoon at 12:30 for Cupcake Bowl 2013. More than a dozen local bakers will compete for a number of awards including best overall taste and people’s choice, which will be determined by those who attend and vote. Tickets are $25 or $20 for ArtsQuest members. Proceeds will benefit ArtsQuest arts education programming.

• Mary Faith Rhoads, which Godfrey Daniels Website calls the “first lady of Lehigh Valley folk” music, unretires for an engagement at the venerable South Bethlehem coffee house at 8 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $15.50.

• Christmas City Village, will reopen Friday for its final weekend in the Sun Inn Courtyard and spaces near the Historic Hotel Bethlehem and the Central Moravian Church. The wooden market huts are filled with unique gift ideas. As you shop, enjoy bratwurst with sauerkraut and warm up with a hot beverage including the popular hot mulled wine from Germany called Gluhwein. The market is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

• The Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites will continue to offer its seasonal holiday tours, which include the Christmas City Stroll, Scenic Horsedrawn Carriage Rides, the Bethlehem by Night Bus Tour and the holiday version of the Rise & Fall of Bethlehem Steel. For more information on tour times or to purchase tickets, contact the Historic Bethlehem Visitor Center at 505 Main St., call 1-800-360-TOUR or view this website: www.historicbethlehem.org.

• Sing for America presents Babes in Toyland—a re-imagining of the March of the Wooden Soldiers—at the Charles A. Brown Icehouse on Sand Island at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors.

• The ArtsQuest Holiday Light Show—a music and light show that dances on the blast furnaces—will continue to play nightly at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 through Sunday.