Your Weekend: Ke$ha Leads the Party at Musikfest

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The Weather: Beautiful. Mostly sunny, a high near 85 degrees with a light northwest breeze.

The Headliner: Painted-and-glittered pop party girl Ke$ha is the featured act at 8:30. Tickets are $59 and $44.

The Highlights: It is British Invasion Day at Festplatz from opening at noon til closing at 11. The Wholigans, a Who tribute band, gets things started. They are followed by The English Channel at 2:30, The Blue Meanies at 5 and Beatles tribute band, Strawberry Fields at 8.

For the Little Ones: Monster Madness is the craft theme at Banana Island. Erin Lee and the Up Past Bedtime Band plays from noon to 2 at neighboring Plaza Tropical. Trout Fishing in America, a duo that blends, folk, rock and children’s music, play sets at 1:30 at Volksplatz and 7 at Liederplatz.

The Best of the Free Platzes: The Dustbowl Revival from Venice, Calif., plays a mixture of bluegrass and jug and swamp blues at Liederplatz at noon Saturday. Fright Barker & Sons from New York play a combination of jump blues and Dixie punk at Plaza Tropical at 6:30—an interesting warmup for Bethlehem’s Hector Rosado whose 10-piece band will play salsa, merengue and make you want to dance.  Finally, Los Straitjackets (9 p.m. at Volksplatz) are worth checking out for their antics, which include the wearing of Mexican wrestling masks, poorly pronounced Spanish song introductions and decent surfer music chops.

The Late Night Musikfest: Get some laughs with stand up comedian Randy Tonge, performing at the Banko at 11:15. Local favorites The Aardvarks play your rock n’ roll dance party from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Musikfest Café. Or you can just mellow out to some old and new school reggae, mon, with Spokey Speaky at the TD Bank Community Stage in front of the ArtsQuest Center at 11.

Click here for the full Saturday Musikfest schedule.

Also: Teen Rockers from S. Lehigh to Perform in City Saturday