Meanwhile, the fairgrounds halfway will supply Swyear Amusements carnival rides and all kinds of meals distributors, together with some new ones, Sunday-Aug. 6 in Charleston. Other actions will embrace dwell music on the aspect stage, livestock shows within the barns, and Art Hall and Merchants Building shows.

Maurer, who performs repeatedly at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville and excursions nationally, is scheduled to carry out at 7 p.m. Monday following a gap act by native nation rock band Absent Ground at 5:45 p.m. Mauer performed soccer at Eastern Illinois University and taught at Mattoon Middle School.

“I love going back to Charleston. It holds a really special place in my heart,” Mauer stated, including that he likes to see outdated pals on the truthful. He is getting ready for his third annual concert on the Coles County Fair.

The nation singer stated he plans to deliver a six-piece band, with the addition of a metal guitar participant, to this 12 months’s truthful, including that his band’s metal guitar and fiddle sound particularly good on George Jones and Merle Haggard classics.

Mauer stated he needs to thank Mitch Titus from the truthful’s administrators for serving to make the annual concert events doable, Joey’s sandwich store proprietor Mark Grant for feeding the band yearly, and Hilton Garden Inn co-owner Jeremy Yost for internet hosting them this 12 months.

“All those people are bending over backwards to take care of us,” Mauer stated.

Other grandstand leisure will embrace the Little Miss, Junior Miss, and Fair Queen pageants at 5:30 p.m. Sunday; truck and tractor pulls at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; demolition derby at 7 p.m. Aug. 4; skilled bull using at 7 p.m. Aug. 5; and police canine models demonstrations at 1 p.m. Aug. 6.

In addition, truthful board President Tom Jones stated the grandstand will host Twilight Harness Racing at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday adopted by further harness races at 12:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

Swyear Amusements has already begun establishing rides on the fairgrounds in preparation for the carnival opening at 4 p.m. Sunday. The carnival will supply $25 armband nights for using from 4-10 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday; two for one carnival tickets at 4–10 p.m. Tuesday and 1–5 p.m. Aug. 5; and $2 rides all day Aug. 6.

Concessions can be accessible from the carnival distributors and from meals distributors alongside the halfway, providing corndogs, fries, funnel desserts, lemon shake-ups and different truthful staples.

Jones stated the Fry Guys Grill will supply breakfast, lunch and supper hours on the meals vendor constructing throughout from the truthful workplace, whereas the Charleston Masonic Lodge will as soon as once more function its burger and nachos stand subsequent to the grandstand. He stated the truthful additionally can be welcoming a brand new mini doughnut vendor and extra this 12 months.

“We have a new food vendor coming in this year who has bacon wrapped corndogs,” Jones stated.

The full schedule for the truthful and data on admissions to the grounds and to the grandstand can be found at colescountyfair.net/.