Alt Rockers OneRepublic to Headline at Musikfest

OneRepublic, along with special guests Mayer Hawthorne and Churchill, will headline Musikfest Aug. 3 at 7 p.m.

Tickets for the concert, which will take place at the festival’s Sands Steel Stage, are $39 and $49. They’ll go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. to ArtsQuest Members and April 12, 10 a.m., to the public and be available at musikfest.org and 610-332-3378.

Formed in 2002, OneRepublic took the world by storm in 2007 with its debut album Dreaming Out Loud featuring the smash singles “Stop and Stare,” and “Apologize,” which set a record for the most radio airplay in one week.

A remixed version of “Apologize” on Timbaland’s Timbaland Presents Shock Value album became an international hit, spending 25 weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard charts and earning the group a Grammy Award nomination.  

In 2009, OneRepublic released its sophomore set, Waking Up. The recording, which hit No. 21 on the Billboard 200 and No. 3 on the Top Modern Rock/Alternative Albums charts, featured the singles “Secrets,” “Good Life” and “All The Right Moves,” the latter of which reached the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 20.

The group’s latest recording is Native, which came out March 26 and includes the singles “Feel Again” and “If I Lose Myself.”

Opening the OneRepublic concert are singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and DJ Mayer Hawthorne, whose recording How Do You Do reached No. 8 on the Billboard R&B charts, and Churchill, the Colorado-based indie rockers whose hit “Change” reached No. 17 on Billboard’s Hot Modern Rock Tracks.