Three guitar greats in one show announced as another Musikfest headliner - Lehigh Valley Music Blog

Three guitar greats in one show have just been announced as another headliner for Musikfest's 30th anniversary year.

Rock singer Peter Frampton, blues icon B.B . King and fellow blues guitarist Sonny Landreth, playing as Frampton’s Guitar Circus,  will perform at 7 p.m. Aug.

5 at Musikfest’s main SteelStage arena, Musikfest announced.

Peter Frampton at Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem in 2011

Tickets for the show, at $39 and $54, will go on sale to ArtsQuest Members at 10 a.m. March 12 and to the public at 10 a.m. March 15 at www.musikfest.org or by calling 610-332-3378.

The show is the fourth headliner announced for the 10-day festival. It was announced Thursday that party-rocker Ke$ha will play Aug. 10, and previous shows announced were “Call Me Maybe” pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen on Aug.

7 and former Hootie & The Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker on Aug. 9.

Musikfest will run Aug. 2-11.

Frampton is best known for eight-times-platinum 1976 album “Frampton Comes Alive,” from which he had the hits “Show Me the Way,” “Baby I Love Your Way” and “Do You Feel Like We Do?”  It was the biggest-selling live album for more than 20 years until Garth Brooks’ “Double Live” passed it in 1998.

Frampton also had a platinum No. 2 album with 1977’s “I’m In You” and its No. 2 title single. In all, he’s had four gold or platinum albums and nine Top 20 hits.

He also co-founded one of the first super groups, seminal rock act Humble Pie.

Frampton played to a crowd of about 1,500 at Sands Bethlehem Casino resort’s Musik at the Sands series in 2011 and played Penn’s Peak near Jim Thorpe in 2010.  

King, one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, has spent a staggering 65 of his 87 years as a professional musician and has continued to perform 25 years after being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award and being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He has released well over 60 albums, with hits such as “Three O’Clock Blues,” “Sweet Little Angel” and "The Thrill Is Gone."

King headlined Musikfest’s former RiverPlace main stage with Al Green in 2007. He also played  Easton’s State Theatre four times in the 2000s, the last in 2009, and played Sands Bethlehem Event Center in November.

Landreth, whom  Clapton has called "probably the most underestimated musician on the planet and also probably one of the most advanced," is best known for his slide technique. Landreth played at Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004, 2007, 2010, and is scheduled to play it in New York this year.

 Landreth’s 11th album, “Elemental Journey,” was released last year as his first all-instrumental effort, with guests appearances by Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson, as well as steel drum master Robert Greenidge.

He played Sellersville Theater 1894 in October.