ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band that canceled its Allentown Fair show last year as its lead singer underwent cancer treatment will perform this year, it was announced Tuesday.
Heart, famed for hits including “Alone,” “Barracuda,” “Magic Man,” “Crazy on You,” will perform the fair's opening night, as it would have last year, at 7 p.m. Aug. 27, the fair announced.
Tickets, at $99 and $119, go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, March 7, on the fair's website or at the box office at 17th and Liberty streets, Allentown.Allentown Fair news release
Tickets, at $99 and $119, go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, March 7, on the fair's website or at the box office at 17th and Liberty streets, Allentown.
Special box office hours will from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, Monday, March 10, and Thursday, March 13. All show tickets include admission into the fair.
The fair is also offering discount ride tickets, half price fair admission, and prepaid premium concert parking.
The announcement is the third headliner for this year's fair, which will run Aug. 28-Sept. 2.
Previously announced headliners are top comedian Gabriel Iglesias on Sept. 1 and top country music singer Kane Brown on Aug. 29.
Tickets remain available for both those shows.
Heart, which also includes Wilson's sister Nancy, canceled its fair show last year when Ann Wilson released a statementsaying that while she felt well, her physicians had recommended additional treatment for her condition.
"Please know that I absolutely plan to be back on stage in 2025," Wilson said at the time. "My team is getting those details sorted & we’ll let you know the plan as soon as we can."
Supporting act Cheap Trick filled in to headline the show last year.
History of hitmaking machine
Heart took off in 1975, and since then has sold 25 million copies of its 15 studio albums, nine live discs and 10 compilations.
Its debut, 1975’s “Dreamboat Annie,” sold platinum and debuted in the Albums chart Top 10. In addition to “Magic Man” and “Crazy On You,” it had a hit with the title track.
In 1977, the disc “Little Queen” saw the band earn even more success, as it sold triple-platinum and produced the hit “Barracuda.”
Heart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The group saw its biggest success with its self-titled 1985 album, which sold five-times platinum, hit No. 1, and gave the group it’s biggest hit single, “These Dreams.”
In 1988, the group released triple-platinum “Bad Animals,” featuring the hit “Alone.”
It continued to have success through the 1993 album “Desire Walks On,” which sold gold. Its most recent album of new music was 2016’s “Beautiful Broken.”
Heart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
From 2016-19, Heart went on hiatus after the sisters’ relationship was strained by Ann Wilson's husband, Dean Wetter, pleading guilty to assaulting Nancy Wilson's 16-year-old twin sons.
The group reunited in 2019, but its tour was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2022, Nancy Wilson went on tour with her own version of Heart, called Nancy Wilson's Heart, which in June of that year performed at Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem.
