Crystal Shawanda performs at the 45th Roasting Ears of Corn Festival

Name: Crystal Shawanda performs at the 45th Roasting Ears of Corn Festival
Start: 2025-08-16T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-17T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 2825 Fish Hatchery Rd, Allentown, PA

Schedule

Sat, 16 Aug, 2025 at 11:00 am to Sun, 17 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

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Location

2825 Fish Hatchery Rd, Allentown, PA | Allentown, PA

Crystal Shawanda, international, multi-award winning Native American country and blues powerhouse, will premiere at the 45th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival on August 16 & 17, 2025 at the Museum of Indian Culture, 2825 Fish Hatchery Road, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Performance times are 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily.

Crystal is from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in Ontario. She became the first full blood Indigenous woman to appear in the Top 20 on the American Billboard Country Music chart, selling over 300k records, and to sing at the Grand Ole Opry, as well as the first to win the CCMA for Female artist of the year in 2009; and the first Indigenous woman to win a Juno award for "Blues album of the year" in 2020, and the first to appear in the Top 10 of the American Billboard Blues chart in 2022.

Festival admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors over age 62 and children 12-17, and children under 11 are FREE. Festival gates are open daily on August 16th & 17th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.