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Pentatonix posts TikTok video singing Miley Cyrus hit with David Archuleta at Allentown Fair

Pentatonix posted a 35-second video on its TikTok account Wednesday of it singing with David Archuleta at Allentown Fair with the comment, "You CRUSHED this😉 Allentown, you were amazing❤️."

Pantatonix at Allentown Fair
Pentatonix performed at Allentown Fairs grandstand on Saturday, Aug. 31.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. — If you weren't among those lucky enough to have been at the concert by hit a cappella group Pentatonix at Allentown Fair last week, you now can see one of its highlights.

And if you were at the show, you have a (slight) chance to see yourself watching that highlight and an even better chance to hear yourself singing along.

You can thank Pentatonix.

On Saturday, Aug. 31, Pentatonix put on an hour-and-37-minute concert of 13 full songs and five medleys of 70 others at the fair grandstand.

A highlight came late in Pentatonix's set, when they brought opening act David Archuleta, the 2008 runner-up on "American Idol," back out to perform Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" with Pentatonix frontman Scott Hoying.

The group enlisted the Allentown Fair audience, which it divided and asked alternative sides to hold up their lighted cell phones as Archultea and Hoying took turns singing phrases of the song.

It then asked the crowd to sing the final phrase, "It's the climb" with them.

Hoy told the crowd it was recording the song for a TikTok video.


A 35-second video posted on Pentatonix's TikTok account on Wednesday with the comment, "Thank you @David Archuleta for touring with us!! You CRUSHED this😉 Allentown, you were amazing❤️."

As of noon Thursday, the video had almost 10,000 likes.

Pentatonix also posted a second TikTok video shot at Allentown Fair with Archuleta, in the area behind the grandstand stage, but it's a humorous video, not a performance.


Pentatonix late Tuesday also announced its biggest Christmas tour yet, Pentatonix: Hallelujah! It's A Christmas Tour.

The tour will kick off on Nov. 14 in Uncasville, Connecticut, and finish Dec. 2 in Dallas, Texas.

Its closest show to the Lehigh Valley will be Nov. 17 in Hershey, Dauphin County.

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