ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A social media star with millions of followers who has become a hit singer as well will perform at Allentown's new Archer Music Hall, it was announced.
Also coming to the venue will be a dance party featuring music by the Grammy Awards Best New Artist Chappell Roan.
And coming for two shows will be a Taylor Swift tribute act who just eight months ago played a show at Univest Performance Center in Quakertown.
Tickets for Spinn, at $33.25; Party Iconic: Hot To Go, at $24; and Let's Sing Taylor, at $41.75, went on sale today, Feb. 21, all at the Archer website.Archer Music Hall website
Bailey Spinn, who has nearly 16 million followers on TikTok and nearly 5 million subscribers to her YouTube channel — and viral YouTube pop-punk songs, as well — will perform at 6 p.m. June 18.
Party Iconic: Hot to Go — a dance party named after Chappell's 2023 double-platinum hit and featuring music by the Grammy Awards' Best New Artist — will be at 8 p.m. March 29.
And Let’s Sing Taylor — A Live Band Experience Celebrating Taylor Swift will perform at 2 and 6:30 p.m. p.m. April 5.
Tickets for Spinn, at $33.25; Party Iconic: Hot To Go, at $24; and Let's Sing Taylor, at $41.75, went on sale today, Feb. 21, all at the Archer website.
The announcements bring to 31 the number of shows booked for Archer Music Hall, which is scheduled to open March 8 witha concert by gold-record-selling Brazilian metal band Cavalera.
But the Let's Sing Taylor is the Archer's first announced act to duplicate what already was available in the Lehigh Valley area.
From social media to star
Spinn, 22, will perform in Archer's smaller Arrow room, which has a capacity of about 500, compared with Archer's 1,600-capacity main room.
She began creating TikTok videos while at San Diego State University, and saw them go viral. Her influence spread to Instagram and YouTube, where she began releasing songs.
Her first two singles, 2023's "Romance Is Dead" and "Runner Up," collected millions of views, and last year's "My Worst Enemy" more than a quarter million.
Her debut album, "Loser," is due out this year.
Party Iconic: Hot to Go also will be in the Arrow room.
The show, which is for ages 18 and older, is among a series of music parties the brand Party Iconic offers, including the Please Please Please party, featuring the music of Lehigh Valley native Sabrina Carpenter.
Other parties include One Direction Night, featuring boy band music, Gaga Nights featuring Lady Gaga music and Long Live Eras featuring Taylor Swift music.
Best New artist's music, and Swift's
Pop songstress Roan's 2023's debut album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" sold platinum and peaked at No. 2, with double- and triple-platinum hits with "Hot to Go!" and "Good Luck Babe!"
At this year's Grammys early this month, Roan was nominated for all “Big Four” categories: Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
She won only Best New Artist.
Let’s Sing Taylor — A Live Band Experience Celebrating Taylor Swift, calls itself “the ultimate tribute to the music of Taylor Swift.” It the opening show at last year's Sounds of Summer Series concerts at Quakertown's Univest Performing Arts Center.
The show asks Swift fans — known as Swifties — to come to the show dressed in Taylor attire and “to sing your hearts out” during it.
Tickets for the Quakertown show — which was outdoors — were $28 for lawn seating and $38 to $68 for reserve seating.
