Sedalia

Discounted gate admission and carnival ride wristband tickets are now available for the 2015 Missouri State Fair at Missouri Break Time Convenience Stores, Orscheln Farm and Home Stores and Walgreens.

Tickets to the Missouri State Fair Pepsi Grandstand concert series go on sale starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 17, through Ticketmaster. Public on sale of all other tickets, including auto races, tractor pulls, State Fair Arena events, and the Governor’s Ham Breakfast, begins with the opening of the Box Office at noon Monday, June 22.

The 2015 Missouri State Fair will take place August 13-23 in Sedalia. Headlining at the State Fair Grandstand on Saturday, August 22 will be The Fray and Andy Grammer.

Two years ago I wrote a scathing article criticizing the government for cancelling all of the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels performances in 2013. Well, after that year off due to government cutbacks, the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels resumed their high flying acrobatic shows all over the United States last year and are ready again this year.

Attendance at the Illinois and Iowa State Fairs showed declines from the previous year. The main culprit for the decline was rainy weather in the Midwest, which affected several days of the fairs in Springfield and Des Moines.

The State Fairs of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri are set with some great entertainment lined up with Toby Keith and Gary Allen fans getting three chances to them in concert at all three Fairs.