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Uptown Northampton Street Fair Returns Sept 9 for its 34th Year!

Uptown Northampton Street Fair Returns for its 34th Year!

The Northampton Area Chamber, proud partner of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce invites you to join the fun & festivities at Uptown Northampton Street Fair on September 9, 2022!

The 34th Annual Uptown Northampton returns to Main Street with a bang!

Uptown Northampton Street Fair Returns for its 34th Year!

With over 100 craft and business vendors, live music, food trucks, rock climbing, giveaways, and more, the street festival has all the elements to bring an enjoyable afternoon to Northampton, PA.

“The Greater Northampton Area Chamber is pleased to once again bring the Uptown Northampton Festival to the Borough of Northampton,”

said Jessica O’Donnell-Gower

EVP of Affiliated Chambers, Easton Initiatives and the Northern Tier for the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce.

“This year’s festival continues a time-honored tradition with some fun new twists – live music at the Gin Mill, a Mini Moos Petting Zoo – plus some traditional activities, like tours of the Roxy Theater. Not only does this event celebrate our local businesses, it brings new faces to the Borough. We look forward to a great event!”

The festival, which will feature over 100 vendors and food trucks, is returning on September 9th, 2023

The festival, which will feature over 100 vendors and food trucks, is returning on September 9th, 2023, and will feature rock climbing from LV Rocks, Touch-a-Truck , two beer tents from the Gin Mill and The Chamber (benefiting the GNACC Scholarship Fund) and other adult beverages from Triple Sun Spirits, Clever Girl Winery, Lucci Family Wines and Sleepy Cat Urban Winery. Tours of the Roxy Theater will be held throughout the day, and the Main Stage, located next to the Gin Mill, will feature demonstrations from 3D Dance (11-11:30 AM) and Elite Mixed Martial Arts (1:30-2 PM), and live music from Third Hand (11:30 AM-1:30 PM) and Trick Stacy (2:30-4 PM).

“Being a part of a time-honored tradition in Northampton

is not only important to us as an organization,

but to the volunteers and staff who make this festival come to fruition,”

Kate Hartney

Coordinator of Affiliated Chambers for the Greater Northampton Area Chamber of Commerce.

Food trucks will also be present to provide great eats throughout the day. Participating trucks (as of August 29th) include: Mattie’s Strudel Haus, Mon & Mel’s Sweet Scoops, CurdZone, Island Expressions, Greek Street, Slide on By, Smokehouse Food Truck, Kalli Inc Sweet Treats Funnel Cakes, and Grub Night Food Truck.

This event would not be made possible without Greater Northampton Area businesses

This event would not be made possible without Greater Northampton Area businesses; participating sponsors include: Horwith Trucking (Entertainment Sponsor), The Gin Mill & Grille (Entertainment Sponsor), Holcim (Uptown Sponsor), Embassy Bank of the Lehigh Valley (Main Street Sponsor), Roxy Theater (Main Street Sponsor), Newhard Pharmacy (Main Street Sponsor), Foster Jewelers (Main Street Sponsor), A&M Service Center (Uptown Sponsor), Times News (Media Sponsor) and Livengood Excavators Inc. (Supporting Sponsor).

For more information, visit the Uptown Northampton webpage: https://www.lehighvalleychamber.org/uptownnorthampton

Christmas with the Celts, Saturday, December 2, 2023 at Penn’s Peak 8pm

Penn’s Peak is proud to announce Christmas with the Celts, Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 8pm.

Celebrating 12 years of successful national touring, Christmas with the Celts performs a wonderful combination of timeless ancient Irish Christmas Carols and lively Irish dance with modern contemporary songs but with Irish instrumentation.

New Christmas hits, Celts originals and fresh Irish Dance tunes are added to the show each year so that no 2 years are the same. Always a pleasant surprise.

This year Christmas with the Celts will introduce top Irish musicians Patrick D’Arcy from Dublin and Fiachra O’Regan from Connemara, Ireland.

These two have performed with Bono of U2, Sting, Quincy Jones, The Waterboys, Bill Whelan of Riverdance, just to name a few. Also, featured will be the haunting vocals of beautiful singer/fiddler Luisa Marion.

And an Irish Christmas would not be complete without the unpredictable Irish jokes (craic) and banter that occurs between band members and the audience every year and the always crowd pleasing fiery Irish dancers.

The high-stepping spirited musical selections have audiences clapping along from the first lively renditions of popular contemporary Christmas classics such as Irish versions of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas, White Christmas, John Lennon’s perennial Happy Christmas and many surprises. The show presents a perfect combination of modern Christmas hits, lively ancient Irish Carols, hilarious spontaneous humor, thrilling Irish dancing, a children’s choir and meaningful Christmas ballads with lush string arrangements giving audiences a most memorable interactive Christmas experience.

Show founder, Grammy nominated songwriter, and film score composer Ric Blair says, “You can’t listen to Celtic music and not be happy. Christmas with the Celts isn’t just a concert; it is a spiritual experience of music and dance uniting communities. It’s about bringing young and old together. It is a music of the people. I think that is why this unique melding of modern Christmas hits and organic Celtic instrumentation continues to resonate and grow in popularity every year with audiences.”

The first live performance of Christmas with The Celts was in front of a sold-out audience at the original Grand Ole Opry (voted top venue by Pollstar) the world-famous Ryman Auditorium. The Celts pack concert halls around the world including The Grand Ole Opry, The Lincoln Center, and Performing Arts Centers, Theaters and large Casinos across the country; including multiple appearances on NPR, WSM Radio, PBS shows like Music City Roots and The Bluegrass Underground. Later this year they are set to appear on the Woodsong’s Old Time Radio Hour which also airs on PBS. Blair credits much of their success to their exposure on PBS.

The group has shared the stage with Vince Gill, Cathy Jordan of Dervish, Mairead of Altan, Ricky Skaggs, Tim O’Brien, Patty Loveless, just to name a few.

Tickets on sale Thursday, August 17th at 10:00AM at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Penn’s Peak Box Office and Roadies Restaurant and Bar.  Penn’s Peak Box Office and Roadies Restaurant ticket sales are walk-up only, no phone orders.

Reserved Seating:

Premium Reserved: $28

Regular Reserved: $23

About Penn’s Peak

Penn’s Peak, a beautiful mountaintop entertainment venue located in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, can comfortably host 1,800 concertgoers.  Enjoy a spacious dance floor, lofty ceilings, concert bar/concession area and a full service restaurant and bar aptly named Roadie’s. Complete with a broad open-air deck for summertime revelry, Penn’s Peak patrons enjoy a breathtaking overlook of nearby Beltzville Lake, plus a commanding, picturesque 50-mile panoramic view of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Appalachian Mountains. Choose Penn’s Peak for your next wedding, banquet or special event and treat your guests to an event truly “Above the Rest”.

Geographically convenient to residents of major population zones in Hazleton, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg, the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia and New York City, Penn’s Peak is an ideal location for any event.  It is located only four miles from Exit 74 of the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. 

For more information on Penn’s Peak, go to www.pennspeak.com or call 866-605-7325.

Steve-O: The Bucket List Tour crash lands at Easton’s State Theatre Sept 7

Steve-O: The Bucket List Tour lands at Easton’s State Theatre Sept 7

Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) was willing to do whatever it took to become famous, even if it meant stapling his b***sack to his leg.

After failing miserably at the University of Miami, Steve-O was a homeless couch-surfer for three years before he attended Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, to help further his goal of becoming a famous stuntman.

Easton State Theatre Tickets here.

Steve-O: The Bucket List Tour lands at Easton's State Theatre Sept 7

Steve-O: The Bucket List Tour lands at Easton’s State Theatre Sept 7

 

His relentless attention-wh*ring ultimately led to working with Johnny Knoxville on a stunt-based reality show. The rest is history. MTV aired the first season of JACKASS in 2000.

Since then, Steve-O has had continued success, as a New York Times best-selling author with the release of his memoir, ‘Professional Idiot’, and he has established himself as a force in the world of stand-up comedy. He’s thrilled to be releasing his new, profoundly multimedia, and wildly explicit comedy special, direct to his fans at steveo.com. It’s called “Gnarly”, for good reason.

Across his social media platforms, Steve-O has amassed well over 24 million followers and counting, providing an intimate window into his continued antics and colorful life with his fiancee, Lux. He’s also got a weekly podcast called Steve-O’s Wild Ride! with amazing guests which have included Demi Lovato, Shaquille O’Neal, Ronda Rousey, David Dobrik, Tony Hawk, and more.

Steve-O has never stopped being wild and crazy, but he’s definitely evolved. He’s been clean and sober for over twelve years now, and developed a genuine love for animals (including the four dogs, two cats, and three goats he and Lux have rescued). Steve-O and Lux have plans to start their own animal sanctuary.

“Top Gun: Maverick” Screens FREE at Hopewell Park for Enthralling Outdoor Free Movie Night from Upper Saucon Township and Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce

Upper Saucon Township and Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce Collaborate to Host an Enthralling Outdoor Free Movie Night at Hopewell Park on August 18th featuring “Top Gun: Maverick”

Upper Saucon Township and Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce invite you to join them on August 18th at Hopewell Park in Center Valley for the second free movie night of the year!

Attendees will be able to enjoy the new version of a timeless classic, “Top Gun: Maverick” starring Tom Cruise, on a large outdoor screen, making for an epic cinematic experience. This community event promises to bring together residents and visitors alike for a night of entertainment under the stars.

Moviegoers are encouraged to bring their blankets and lawn chairs, as they settle in to relish the nostalgic atmosphere of a drive-in-style movie night.

The picturesque setting of Hopewell Park and Rose Garden provides the perfect backdrop for an evening of fun, relaxation, and camaraderie.

The movie night event will begin with a pre-show gathering at 7:30 PM, allowing attendees to grab a space on the lawn and socialize over ice cream for purchase from Mon & Mel’s Ice Cream Truck before the main screening begins just after sunset. Beverages and popcorn will also be available for a suggested donation of $1 to go back to bringing initiatives like this to the community.

We are so thankful to have Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival as the official beverage sponsor of this free movie night.

“We are excited to partner with the Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce as the beverage sponsor for Movie Night to help bring this event to the community,”

Maria Dalmasso

Marketing Association from Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival shared.

“PSF strives to engage and entertain the widest possible audience in our community, and we hope you will join us for our 2024 season next summer”.

“The Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce is delighted to partner with Upper Saucon Township to organize this organize this free community event at Hopewell Park,”

said

Jessica O’Donnel-Gower

Executive Vice President of the Affiliated Chambers, Easton & Phillipsburg Area Initiatives, & Northern Tier “It’s an excellent opportunity for families and friends to come together, enjoy a beloved film, and relish the beauty of our community.”

Don’t miss this exceptional community event!

Gather your loved ones and get ready to feel the need for speed as we watch “Top Gun: Maverick” soar into the skies at Hopewell Park on August 18th!

Event Information:

When: Friday, August 18th, 2023, Pre-Movie Activities- 7:30PM EST, Movie- Approx. 8:30PM EST

Where: Hopewell Park, 4695 West Hopewell Road, Center Valley, PA 18034

Pricing Information: Free and open to the public

The Four Horsemen – Metallica Tribute at Penn’s Peak Friday, December 15

Penn’s Peak is proud to announce The Four Horsemen- Metallica Tribute, Friday, December 15, 2023 at 8pm.

Dedication to excellence is what separates U.S. metal heroes THE FOUR HORSEMEN from the ocean of ‘tribute’ bands.

The only album-quality Metallica tribute band on the planet

They deliver the unforgettable, note-for-note perfect experience that is guaranteed to surpass even the wildest dreams of Metallica aficionados.

The speed, the precision, the signature riffs, and the look – THE FOUR HORSEMEN are the real deal!

The Four Horsemen - Metallica Tribute at Penn’s Peak Friday, December 15

They have the talent to deliver the sonic authenticity of the vintage thrash songs with high caliber execution – including the blistering vocals of the albums like no one else. No gimmicks on the stage. Just sheer energy, chest-pounding, crowd-pleasing power.  The very same intensity that drew millions to Metallica in the 80’s. Guitarist/vocalist Sean Perry explains; “Fans deserve the highest quality reproduction of Metallica’s records and shows. That’s why we’re here.”

The Four Horsemen - Metallica Tribute at Penn’s Peak Friday, December 15

 Guided by his vision and determination, the band have become heroes to their ever-growing fan base in the U.S. and are now spreading their wings to take over the globe.

 “I saw Metallica on the Black Album tour in 1991 and that experience changed me forever…”

The sound, the energy between band and audience – from that moment on I knew what I was put on earth to do. Music is my life!” says Sean.  Little did he know that his thrasher heroes would play an even bigger part in his artistic future when he was approached by a Metallica tribute band looking for a new, charismatic front man in late 2006.

 Every live performance they have done has received widespread acclaim; the band have taken the art of paying tribute to a new level of potency. Focusing on Metallica’s first four, classic albums – Kill ‘Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, and …And Justice For All – with a smattering of anthems from the all-conquering Metallica/Black Album they deliver a show metal fans dream of.

The Four Horsemen have now taken global management by Jeff Hair, legendary sound engineer for MANOWAR.

 Be warned: They are primed and ready to bring their high-energy show to stages around the world!

Tickets on sale Thursday, August 3rd at 10:00AM at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Penn’s Peak Box Office and Roadies Restaurant and Bar.  Penn’s Peak Box Office and Roadies Restaurant ticket sales are walk-up only, no phone orders.

General Admission

Advance: $22

Day of Show: $27

About Penn’s Peak

Penn’s Peak, a beautiful mountaintop entertainment venue located in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, can comfortably host 1,800 concertgoers.  Enjoy a spacious dance floor, lofty ceilings, concert bar/concession area and a full service restaurant and bar aptly named Roadie’s. Complete with a broad open-air deck for summertime revelry, Penn’s Peak patrons enjoy a breathtaking overlook of nearby Beltzville Lake, plus a commanding, picturesque 50-mile panoramic view of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Appalachian Mountains. Choose Penn’s Peak for your next wedding, banquet or special event and treat your guests to an event truly “Above the Rest”.

Geographically convenient to residents of major population zones in Hazleton, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg, the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia and New York City, Penn’s Peak is an ideal location for any event.  It is located only four miles from Exit 74 of the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.  For more information on Penn’s Peak, go to www.pennspeak.com or call 866-605-7325.

Summer Concert Series Goes Country, featuring Steel Creek Band on July 7

Summer Concert Series Goes Country featuring Steel Creek Band

Join Upper Saucon Township and the Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce for a FREE concert at Hopewell Park!

This edition of the Summer Concert Series will feature country artists, The Steel Creek Band!

This special country edition is just one of several of Upper Saucon Township’s Summer Concert Series with additional performances by Scott Marshall Band on July 21st and Craig Thatcher on August 25th.

The event begins at 6:00 PM and the music will start at 6:30; blankets, lawn chairs, etc. are all welcome!

Scott Marshall Band

Scott Marshall Band

Community goal is to have as much fun as possible, have a good night with our local community and enjoy a terrific night of music!

When asked about working on community events such as this:

“It’s great to see businesses and community members connect,

and what better way than through a shared experience of live music”.

Sarah Yost

Assistant Manager of the Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber is proud to partner alongside communities like Upper Saucon Township and businesses to inspire community camaraderie.

Thank you to Xfinity and other sponsors, JT Tsiouvaras at Farmers Insurance, Designing Wealth Management of Raymond James, G&T Auto Body, and Digital Outdoor Display for making Southern Lehigh’s Summer Concert Series at Hopewell Park happen!

Craig Thatcher

Craig Thatcher

In addition to partnering with our sponsors, local businesses from our community will also be joining this event.

Food trucks Greek Street and PFG Pizza will be on-sight serving up delectable snack and dinner options, alongside Mon and Mel’s Ice Cream truck for dessert- so come hungry!  A portion of all sales will go back to the Southern Lehigh Chamber of Commerce to support more events like this in the community.

 

For more information, please visit our local Chamber of Commerce event page
https://web.lehighvalleychamber.org/events/UpperSaucon%20Township%20Summer%20Concert%20Series%20%20SLCC-838881/details

 

Grab your lawn chairs and your cowboy boots and get ready to go country with The Chamber and Steel Creek Band!

Event Information:

When: Friday, July 7th, 2023, 6:00 PM EST

Where: Hopewell Park, 4695 West Hopewell Road, Center Valley, PA 18034

Pricing Information: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Presenting Sponsor: Xfinity.  Bronze Sponsor: Designing Wealth of Raymond James. Supporting Sponsors: JT at Farmers Insurance and G&T Auto Body. Marketing Sponsor: Digital Outdoor Display.

Lehigh Valley loves Cocktails: Local Spirit KLYR Rum gets poured throughout Pennsylvania, Adam Lehrhaupt reveals

Local Spirit KLYR Rum gets poured throughout Pennsylvania with better flavor, healthier Ingredients.

Adam Lehrhaupt, Amish Patel, and Neil Kahrim started a Pennsylvania-based spirits company with the simple goal of creating a better-tasting American rum.

As they started adjusting their recipe for flavor, they soon found health benefits and great cocktail and food pairings.  The result? A purer, cleaner rum, with a flavor they claim creates its own genre. 

One thing’s for sure, Pennsylvania cocktail lovers are ordering more and more.

The following is a conversation (via zoom) with Adam Lehrhaupt.  The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.  Find the full, un-edited talk at our Youtube channel.

 

Let’s start by saying you’re in a car right now and can you tell us why you’re in a car right now?

 

Adam: Yeah, so I’m in a car right now because today’s a big day for any sports people, but especially in the Philadelphia area. 

KLYR Rum being poured at a Phillies game

We’ve got a 1 o’clock Phillies game. And as a rum company, we like to go down to those games when we can and just hang out at the ballpark and buy rum for people. Introduce them [to our KLYR Rum brand]. Either something they’ve never had before or if they are already a fan, getting them another one. So I’m heading down to the ballpark today to catch a ballgame and hang out with some Phillies fans. And then tonight, we’ve got the draft, so the ballgame will roll over into some fun at Xfinity Live. So we’ve got our products in Xfinity Live now.

So we’ll pop over there and roll into a little bit of draft night. See who everybody’s favorite football teams draft. 

I love your guerrilla marketing style.  You’re out there meeting the people.

 

Adam: [Points to his shirt] This is my Phillies KLYR shirt.  It’s our KLYR K, but it’s in the Phillies pin stripes. I don’t know if you can see it’s got the Philly pin stripes on it. 

Tell us about the KLYR brand itself and what you’re trying to accomplish.

 

Adam: Basically the idea for creating KLYR rum and I’ll start back at the beginning. One of my two main business partners, his name’s Amish Patel. He is a dentist. He grew up as a dentist. His dad is a dentist. His brother’s a dentist. Thirteen cousins are dentists. There’s nine more in dental school. He has another group of cousins who all work in dental laboratories.

So they make dentures and things like that. So he comes from a dental family in Pennsylvania. I think they’re around 93 offices now in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the mid-Atlantic region.

He came to me over Covid and said he was done being a dentist and he wanted to do something different. And he had a friend who had been in the spirits industry, somebody he went to high school with, who created Whistle Pig and he said, I wanna create spirits. 

And I said, first of all I’m in for anything spirits related,  I’m a big fan and I went back and did a little bit of research to see what the market needed. So everything that we do is market driven, so we do research and figure out not what we think it needs.

What the market did have was a big kind of opening a gap in the Silver Rum area for something that was just very well made, but had flexibility. So a really good clean tasting silver rum didn’t really exist. So we set about trying to create it and that’s where KLYR Rum came from.

 

Now tell me a little bit about your background and the team itself. How the three of you got together.

 

Adam: So my current day job, when I’m not helping run this run business, is I write children’s books. So I’m a children’s book author.

Before that I was a senior art director for a company called Siemens Healthcare. Before that I was a roadie, but currently I’m a children’s book author and in my spare time I play hockey. That’s my little outlet for my extra energy. It’s my cardio when I’m working out.

And that’s where I met Amish. We all played against each other for years. And then finally a couple years ago, we ended up getting him onto my hockey team and we became pretty good friends. And when he presented this idea, I came back to him with rum as an idea.

He said, I have this guy I went to high school with. His name is Neil Kareem who’s from Trinidad. Let me get him on the phone. So we’re at lunch and he calls Neil and gets Neil on the phone and he goes, Neil, what do you think about, rum?

And Neil goes yeah, I like rum. Rum’s great. He goes, what about making rum? And Neil’s okay let’s figure it out. So really Neil and I were the ones who kinda went away for about five or six months and figured out how the whole distilling process worked, figured out how to build a distillery, put together all the numbers, and then Neil went out to try to find us a master distiller.

KLYR Rum Distiller Lexi Close

KLYR Rum Distiller Lexi Close

And he found somebody that we both really liked. And she agreed to meet us and we did this meeting and we just clicked right away. As it turned out, she was working for her family’s distillery, so we couldn’t hire her away at that time. But we did start working with her –  her name’s Lexi Close and Lexi took my ideas and the flavor profiles I was talking about and the way that I described it to her, because it didn’t exist.

So I described it through other spirits.  I wanted something with the clean taste of vodka or tequila, right? So I needed to keep that body that you get, but with the sugar of rum. You needed to have the mouthfeel of rum. What I wanted to lose was that harshness. There’s a harshness to rum that most people hide behind sugar.

It used to happen a lot with tequila as well.  Luckily, Lexi’s a big tequila person, so she saw the change in tequila [from years ago, it’s much better now]. 

But she understood when I was talking about harsh tequila and she went about trying to [fix it]. She and I worked together. My work was just tasting it and making suggestions. She worked really hard.

She managed to create this whole new category of product that we are calling American Rum. To differentiate it from Caribbean style rum.  We wanted to really delineate that this was something unique and different and it wasn’t like something you’d had before.

 

So let’s talk a little bit about flavors and the cans themselves, the process of making them?

 

Adam: Let’s start with how we got there first. Because when I started thinking of what drinks I would make with this great rum I was thinking summertime. A little sugar-free lemonade.

Then I came up with this idea for a drink at the ballpark.  I called it “Clear sky”, so it had a little blue curacao in the lemonade, it was like a light blue kind of color. 

We had that all last summer (2022) at Citizens Bank Park. Then we’re also up at the Iron Pigs Coca-Cola park where the Iron Pigs play in Bethlehem. 

It was really light for a lemonade. It didn’t have a lot of sugar in it. I wanted to create that as one of our first cans. Then we were gonna do the traditional Orange Crush.  Orange Crush is the big flavor down at the Jersey Shore towards the middle of last summer.

I expect it to be even bigger this year with all the peach crushes and everything that is happening. There’s a whole crush bar live now that’s how popular these are. 

So we go in and we’ve got our flavor guy, Mike.  He was concocting the mixes for us, and I wanted to keep them below 99 calories. That was very important to me, to go after the seltzer market, ready to drink’s or the White Claws. They’re basically made with cheap alcohol, hidden behind bubbles.

So we sat down and we started trying these lemonades, [testing for the] right amount of flavor. I tried the low flavor lemonade and I went, hold on, can you do this, but  20% less flavor?

I’m thinking we can get it to taste like water and it will be KLYR water. With the partnership with the Phillies, we’ve got Clearwater in Clearwater, right? Because that’s where they hold spring training. 

He really took a lot of the flavoring out and basically something that tastes like ice cold water with a twist of lemon in it.  So that was how we came up with that first flavor. 

Then we had to create Crush. We did; and I thought it was good, but it was 99 calories. It had a lot of flavor to it, like an orange crush.  As we’re going through and I’m drinking them, I’m [always] throwing in another shot of KLYR. 

So when we decided to expand the water line to four flavors: the original OG water that has light, lemon flavor.

We have a tangerine water, which is really subtle, but it’s got sweeter, tangerine flavor to it. Still less than 99 calories. 

Passion fruit which has got a little bit of that sour pop that passion fruit has.

Then the last one I really wanted to do a spa water, so we did cucumber mint.  Which  is my new go-to. I drink it all the time. 

I knew that we wanted the flavors to be unique and different. 

I didn’t want it to be sweet. When you get more full flavored, it ends up being more than 99 calories.

So the crush line became 6.5% [alcohol]. Because as I said, I kept adding an extra shot of KLYR to it. We could lower the sugar that we put in to give the flavor body so that we would get that kind of Crush body when you’re drinking it.

So they’re 6.5 %, they’re only 190 calories. We’ve got Orange Crush, Pineapple Smash Berry Lemonade Blast and Fruit Punch, which is like a tropical fruit punch. This is the juice bag of my youth. So I created those for people who like a little more pop, a little more flavor, and for anybody who goes into a bar and orders that double or triple IPA.

 

Is that why you didn’t want it sweet,  for the calories?

 

Adam: No, I didn’t want it sweet because I don’t wanna hide the rum.  I want you to be able to taste the rum. The flavorings might be great, but the rum is what we’re showcasing. So whatever we made, I wanted you to be able to still get those hints of the rum and enjoy that flavor as you’re drinking it.

 

For foodies, food pairing wise, what have been some great food combinations?

 

Adam: Let me go through the flavors of the crush line, because it splits, I think about them as like red wine and white wine. 

So the water line is like a white wine. So you can have the waters with pizza, pasta, fish.

The Orange Crush and even the Pineapple Smash with Indian food or Mexican food where you have that spice but a little of that sweetness cuts through it and you have the body of the rum on the finish. Those things come out really well together.

[Now Adam has parked and is walking through their KLYR Rum office]

How much of your office is Pennsylvania based? Where’s your distiller?

Adam: Our distillery is in Lewisberry, so that’s in Pennsylvania out by Harrisburg.

Our headquarters is in Westchester.  I am here in Bluebell. Keith is based in Quakertown.

 

Where can we find you? Where can we buy, where can we shop? Where can we follow?

 

Adam: In Pennsylvania we’re available through the PLCB (Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board).

We’re in 30 different stores right now, but we’re in the distribution centers, so anybody who doesn’t have it in their PLCB store order it to have it delivered to them. 

If you are in the greater Philadelphia, Eastern PA area, as far as Bethlehem and out towards Harrisburg we do home delivery.

We have a whole thing on our website everywhere that you can find it. So you can put in your zip code and it’ll tell you where you can get it near you.

In Eastern and Central Pennsylvania use the code: Adam2023 at checkout and get up to 35% off you order.

 

Tell us which social media channels you’re on and how to find you on there?

 

Adam: It’s KLYRRum on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and find us at KLYRRum.com

We support local first. So we’re a Pennsylvania company. That includes South Jersey.

The Wood Brothers with Maya De Vitry at Penn’s Peak Sunday, October 22

Penn’s Peak is proud to announce The Wood Brothers with Maya De Vitry, Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 7pm.

The Wood Brothers have learned to trust their hearts.

For the better part of two decades, they’ve cemented their reputation as freethinking songwriters, road warriors, and community builders, creating a catalog of diverse music and a loyal audience who’ve grown alongside them through the years.

That evolution continues with Heart is the Hero, the band’s eighth studio album. Recorded analog to 16-track tape, this latest effort finds its three creators embracing the chemistry of their acclaimed live shows by capturing their performances in real-time direct from the studio floor with nary a computer in sight.

The Wood Brothers, an acoustic-driven album

 

An acoustic-driven album that electrifies, Heart is the Hero is stocked with songs that target not only the heart, but the head and hips, too.

“We love records that come from the era of less tracks and more care,”

explains co-founder

Oliver Wood.

“When you use a computer during the tracking process, you have an infinite number of tracks at your disposal, which implies that nothing is permanent, and everything can be fixed. Tape gives you limitations that force you to be creative and intentional. You don’t look at the music on a screen; you listen to it, and you learn to focus on the feeling of the performance.”

Throughout Heart Is The Hero, those performances are matched by the visceral storytelling and songwriting chops that have turned The Wood Brothers into Grammy-nominated leaders of American roots music, even as their music reaches far beyond the genre’s borders.

The stripped down swagger of “Pilgrim” underscores Oliver’s reminder to slow down and experience each moment as an interactive observer, rather than a passive tourist. A similar theme anchors “Between the Beats,” where Oliver draws upon a meditation technique — maintaining one’s focus on the space between heartbeats — to reach a new level of presence.

The gentle sway of country soul gem “Rollin’ On,” featuring horns by Matt Glassmeyer and Roy Agee, expounds on the time honored tradition of love as the guiding light through darkness, while ”Mean Man World” finds Chris Wood singing about his responsibilities as a father whose young daughter is poised to inherit an uncertain future. “Line Those Pockets” is a universal call for mercy and understanding over materialism.

“Everybody’s just trying to be happy, so put your money away; line those pockets with grace,” the band sings in three-part harmony during the song’s chorus, which emphasizes compassion over cash as the world’s true currency. Together, these songs offer a snapshot of a spirited, independent-minded group at the peak of its powers, always pushing forward and seeking to evolve beyond what’s come before.

“There’s still acoustic guitar, upright bass, and percussion on this album — things people use all the time — but we’re always thinking, ‘How can we make this sound like us, but not like something we’ve already done?'” Oliver says. “Sometimes, the only way to do that is to get weird.”

That sense of exploration pumps its way through Heart is the Hero like lifeblood. Arriving on the heels of 2019’s Live at The Fillmore, 2020’s Kingdom In My Mind, and Oliver Wood’s solo album Always Smilin‘ — all of which were released on Honey Jar Records, the band’s independent label — Heart is the Hero is bold, bright, and singularly creative, a fully realized collective effort ultimately greater than the sum of its parts. Perhaps that’s to be expected from a group whose willingness to experiment has earned acclaim from Rolling Stone and NPR, as well as an annual touring schedule of sold-out music halls and theaters on both sides of the Atlantic. Ask The Wood Brothers, though, and they’ll tell you to expect the unexpected.

We are never satisfied if we are not searching for new musical recipes,” says Jano Rix, nodding to the uncharted territory that Heart is the Hero covers. Chris Wood agrees, adding, “We are one of those bands that isn’t easily categorized. We know what our strengths are, but we can’t help but push the envelope, as well. It’s too much fun.”

Tickets on sale Friday, June 23rd at 10:00AM at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Penn’s Peak Box Office and Roadies Restaurant and Bar.  Penn’s Peak Box Office and Roadies Restaurant ticket sales are walk-up only, no phone orders.

General Admission

Advance: $30

Day of Show: $35

About Penn’s Peak

Penn’s Peak, a beautiful mountaintop entertainment venue located in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, can comfortably host 1,800 concertgoers.  Enjoy a spacious dance floor, lofty ceilings, concert bar/concession area and a full service restaurant and bar aptly named Roadie’s. Complete with a broad open-air deck for summertime revelry, Penn’s Peak patrons enjoy a breathtaking overlook of nearby Beltzville Lake, plus a commanding, picturesque 50-mile panoramic view of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Appalachian Mountains. Choose Penn’s Peak for your next wedding, banquet or special event and treat your guests to an event truly “Above the Rest”.

Geographically convenient to residents of major population zones in Hazleton, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg, the Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia and New York City, Penn’s Peak is an ideal location for any event.  It is located only four miles from Exit 74 of the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.  For more information on Penn’s Peak, go to www.pennspeak.com or call 866-605-7325.

Zac N’ Fried with Special Guests Steel Creek Trio at Summerstage Concerts Kick Off in Saylorsburg June 14

Zac N’ Fried with Special Guests Steel Creek Trio at Summerstage Concerts Kick Off in Saylorsburg June 14
The Sherman Theater is bringing the SummerStage back to Saylorsburg on the lawn at the Blue Ridge Flea Market, 648 Route 115.
The first show is Wednesday, June 14 at 7:00 PM with the Zac N’ Fried band, playing the music of The Zac Brown Band and special guests the Steel Creek Trio.
The summer line-up includes:
June 14 – Zac N’ Fried, Music of Zac Brown Band with Steel Creek Trio
June 21 – The Four Horsemen, Tribute to Metallica
July 5 – Jersey Transit Authority, Music of Chicago
July 12 – Satisfaction, Tribute to the Rolling Stones
**July 15 – Steel Panther, from NBC’s America’s Got Talent
July 19 – Fleetwood Macked, Tribute to Fleetwood Mac with. Earth Song Duo
**July 21 – Almost Queen, Most Authentic Queen Tribute Show Since Queen Themselves
August 16 – Rave On!, Music of Legends of Early Rock n Roll with Joey & the T-Birds
August 23 – Almost U2, Music of U2
August 30 – The Dave Matthews Tribute Band
When live bands can get people to dance and sing along, it is sure to be a magical evening.
“This is a perfect opportunity for folks to come out and celebrate community with friends and family.  We listen to great music and enjoy a summer evening together,” said Sherman Theater President and CEO Rich Berkowitz.
Patrons are welcome to bring camp chairs and blankets, food and one factory sealed water bottle.
Food trucks and beverage tent will be selling food, beer, wine, and nonalcoholic drinks.
Kids 12 and under get in FREE for the concerts, excluding the shows on July 15 and 21.
 No pets allowed.  Free parking for all shows.  Rain or shine.
**This show is a special event and not part of the Community Concert Series.
Show:  Zac N’ Fried and special guests the Steel Creek Trio
Sherman Summerstage – 648 Route 115, Saylorsburg at Blue Ridge Flea Market
Wednesday, June 14
Doors at 6:15, Show at 7:00
The Sherman Theater is Monroe County’s only nationally ranked, non-profit theater and performing arts center.  Located in downtown Stroudsburg, PA, the Sherman Theater has proudly served the Pocono region for 90 years.  The Theater and Performing Arts Center is committed to strengthening the community by producing culturally-diverse, nationally-known professional acts and festivals at the theater and at satellite locations throughout Monroe County for people of all ages, by providing an opportunity for local artists to perform, and by creating economic development in the region. The Sherman Theater projects and events attract over 100,000 visitors to the Pocono Region annually.
For more information call 570-420-2808 or visit www.shermantheater.com.

BBQ, Cocktails, Ice Cream and more! Nazareth Food Truck Festival Returns on June 17

Nazareth Food Truck Festival Returns on June 17

The Nazareth Area Chamber of Commerce, proud partner of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce presents the return of the Nazareth Area Food Truck Festival!
  

The Nazareth Area Chamber of Commerce (NACC), proud partner of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber, is pleased to announce the return of their annual food truck festival on June 17th!

The festival will take place on Belvidere Street in Nazareth and will feature live music and great food from the Lehigh Valley’s favorite local food trucks and eateries.  

    
 

“We are excited to be partnering with the Borough of Nazareth to bring this beloved festival back to Nazareth,”

said Jessica O’Donnell

EVP of Affiliated Chambers, Easton Initiatives and Northern Tier for the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce.

 

“Bringing another fun, community-oriented event is something our Chamber is proud to be a part of, especially when it highlights our beautiful downtown.”  
 
The festival invites families and foodies alike to enjoy local cuisine.

Beginning at 3 PM, Belvidere Street will be filled with 10+ food and beverage vendors, ranging in cuisine from sweets like ice cream to savory BBQ and gourmet sliders. Live Music has been scheduled throughout the day, organized and sponsored by the Nazareth Center for the Arts. 

Food vendors include: Slide on By LLC, Smokehouse Food Truck, Mon and Mel’s Sweet Scoops, Greek Street, and Roll With It.

Adult beverage vendors include: Triple Sun Spirits, Clever Girl Winery, Five Maidens Cidery, Birthright Brewing Co, and The Easton Wine Project.   

 

“The Chamber looks forward to connecting with our beautiful community and enjoying a deliciously awesome day,” states Nicole Miles, Manager of the Nazareth Area Chamber. “We look forward to a great day in the Borough of Nazareth and want people to come downtown to see what Nazareth businesses have to offer while enjoying the dining experience of a casual food truck festival and listening to tunes from talented musicians on stage.”  

Sponsor, The Nazareth Center for the Arts, will be hosting a “Battle of the Bands” on stage all day.  

 
More information can be found on the Nazareth Area Chamber’s Facebook event or on the Chamber of Commerce’s website

 
When: June 17, 2023 from 3-7 PM   

Pricing Information: Free to attend, food and beverages for purchase 

Sponsors (as of 6/10/2023):
Handwashing Station Sponsors: Nazareth Mutual Insurance Company and Keystone Consulting Engineers  

Family Fun Sponsor: WRENCHTEC 

Music Sponsor: Nazareth Center for the Arts
Supporting Sponsor: Evening Sun Entertainment 

Community Helper Sponsor: Vigilance Hose Co #1

More information can be found on the Nazareth Area Chamber’s Facebook event: https://tinyurl.com/39k2e3mu 

or on the Chamber of Commerce’s website: https://tinyurl.com/3hwex367 

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