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 Showcasing a slew of country music superstars, exciting events, and many things to do and see, this year’s Central States Fair celebrates the American tradition of family entertainment to its fullest. Take a Truck and Tractor Pull, a Demolition Derby, and the PRCA Rodeo - mix them together, and throw in Joe Nichols with the Red Willow Band, Miranda Lambert with Ashton Shepherd, Jason Aldean with Road Hammers, and Honky Tonk Tailgate Party ’08, and you’re in for one exciting summer event! 
  
Sunday, August 17th - 7:00 pm Real Things, Joe Nichols' fourth album for Universal Records South, is thirteen songs about loss and victory, depression and transcendence, fleetingness and permanence, grit and grace, love and fighting. The collection presents the 30-year-old native of Rogers, Arkansas at the top of his vocal game.  
Monday, August 18th – 7:00 pm “My songs talk about real things,” says Miranda Lambert. “Things that I’ve been through or I’ve witnessed through my friends and family - even my parents’ private investigation business. If I feel it, I can sing it and make anyone believe it.” Big talk from a small-town Texas girl, but Lambert’s got the goods to back it up. The old-school passion and power of her nearly platinum-selling 2005 debut KEROSENE took it to the top of both the country charts and the critics’ polls. Now the two-time CMA Horizon Award nominee returns with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, on which she raises the stakes both musically and emotionally. Read more at mirandalambert.com...  
Tuesday, August 19th – 7:00 pm Four of country music's favorite artists join forces this summer for the "Honky Tonk Tailgate Party '08" tour. Mark Wills, Buddy Jewell, Ray Scott and Trent Willmon take the stage each night giving fans both hit driven individual sets as well as a memorable ensemble finale where the guys are just as likely to trade quips as lyrics. The Honky Tonk Tailgate Party '08 officially kicks off in May and dates continue to be added to the schedule. Current stops include shows in California, Oklahoma, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin. For a complete schedule, visit www.TheHonkyTonkTailgateParty.com/tour.  
Wednesday, August 20th – 7:00 pm Lives and careers have tipping points, days when investments pay off and when a bunch of scattered puzzle pieces suddenly fit together. Jason Aldean doesn’t have to think long when asked to call up his top game changing moment of 2006. “We were playing a show in Portland, Oregon. It was a little club, just an acoustic show,” says the Macon, Georgia native. “‘Hicktown’ (Aldean’s first single) had been doing okay. It was probably 25 on the chart or something. The club was basically sold out. And we went into ‘Hicktown,’ and the place just went crazy.” “Hicktown,” propelled by a spanking beat and a girls-gone-hillbilly-wild video, would go Top 10 before long, but that’s the night it found its place in the full-roar, sing-along party that is Jason Aldean’s groove. “We couldn’t even hear ourselves for people singing to us,” he recalls. “And that was the first time when I got the feeling that we had a hit. We had had pretty decent crowds at our shows, but it seems like from that show on things turned a corner. You get that kind of feedback and it hits you that you may end up having a career.” |
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