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Lonestar will carry out Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, on the Freeborn County Fair. Photo courtesy Taylor Ballantyne LLC

Austin Snell will open the Freeborn County Fair on July 30, 2024. Provided

Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder will carry out July 31, 2024, on the Freeborn County Fair. Provided

Contemporary Christian artist Crowder will carry out on the Freeborn County Fair on Aug. 1, 2024. Provided

Hairball will carry out Aug. 2, 2024, on the Freeborn County Fair. Provided

American nation music group Lonestar will headline the 2024 Freeborn County Fair Grandstand leisure, the honest board introduced Tuesday.

Also to carry out are rising nation expertise Austin Snell, nation and bluegrass singer Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, up to date Christian artist Crowder and rock ’n’ roll band Hairball.

The 2024 honest will probably be July 30 via Aug. 4.

July 30: Austin Snell

A Georgia native and Air Force vet who grew up on a gradual weight-reduction plan of Nickelback, Three Doors Down, Creed and Alan Jackson, the Nashville newcomer has bucked Nashville’s “10-year town” moniker, arriving in 2022 and shortly beginning work to make “grunge country” a family identify.

With distorted, dark-energy guitars, thundering drums, and a wounded vocal on the finish of its emotional rope, his gritty debut single “Excuse the Mess” has now racked up greater than 10 million streams and landed elite playlist placements throughout Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and extra, because the monitor co-written with Presley Aaron and Christian Yancey leads the cost into Snell’s opening chapter.

The rising star now counts 36 million complete streams and over 250,000 lively customers on TikTok to his credit score, plus a uncommon SiriusXM Highway Find accolade — the identical one bestowed on now-superstars like Maren Morris and Luke Combs.

July 31: Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder

With a life stuffed with music, Ricky Skaggs struck his first chords on a mandolin over 60 years in the past and continues to do his half to guide the latest roots revival in music.

A 15-time Grammy Award winner, he entered the world {of professional} music full-time together with his good friend, the late nation singer, Keith Whitley, in 1971 when the 2 younger musicians have been invited to hitch the band of bluegrass patriarch Ralph Stanley. He quickly started to construct a repute for creativity and pleasure via stay appearances and recordings after which turned his consideration to nation music within the late Seventies.

With the discharge of “Waitin’ for the Sun to Shine” in 1981, Skaggs reached the highest of the nation charts and remained there all through a lot of the Nineteen Eighties, leading to a complete of 12 No. 1 hits. In 1982, he grew to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry, the youngest to ever be inducted at the moment.

Over the years, he has proven he’s keen to combine genres, recording and touring with many various artists, together with some in gospel ,blues and nation.

In latest years, Skaggs has had quite a few Hall of Fame inductions, together with the National Fiddler Hall of Fame, IBMA’s Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame, Kentucky Music Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Association’s Gospel Music Hall of Fame and the Musicians Hall of Fame.

Aug. 1: Crowder

Contemporary Christian artist Crowder has bought over 3 million data and has had three Grammy nominations.

His first solo album, “Neon Steeple,” debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, was named iTunes 2014 Christian Album of the Year, garnered a number of radio hits, a Grammy nomination for “Come As You Are,” a Grand Ole Opry debut and a Dove Award. He has since produced albums titled “American Prodigal,” “I Know a Ghost” and most lately “Milk & Honey,” which was born out of the 2020 lockdown season and which he describes as a celebration of the hope that God’s promise stays true.

That album has already proven fast reference to the primary smash single “Good God Almighty,” which hit No. 1 at Christian radio and No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart.

Aug. 2: Hairball

Vocalists Kris Vox, Dave Moody and Drew Hart lead the band via a 2-plus hour homage to a number of the greatest enviornment acts on the earth, together with Van Halen, KISS, Motley Crue, Queen, Journey and Aerosmith. The Hairball stage turns into a wholly new rock live performance earlier than your very eyes numerous instances all through the evening.

2023 finds Hairball celebrating its twenty third yr of rocking lots of of hundreds of individuals throughout the nation. It is consistently including extra characters, extra pyrotechnics, extra lights, extra sound, extra props and extra surprises, performing each present as if it may very well be their final.

Aug. 3: Lonestar

Lonestar’s streak began in 1996 with the band’s second single, the rock-edged “No News,” which describes a person left bereft (and confused) when his girlfriend abruptly disappears, and the next yr’s tender “Come Cryin’ to Me” and “Everything’s Changed.” The band’s quadruple-platinum 1999 album Lonely Grill spawned 4 No. 1 hits (together with the worldwide smash “Amazed”) and established Lonestar as music’s preeminent pop-country band — a standing they’d preserve via the 2000s and past, due to songs stuffed with power and inventive lyrics (“What About Now”) and (“Mr. Mom”), together with heartfelt messages and hovering melodies (“I’m Already There”).

The group has gained quite a few accolades all through the years, together with Academy of Country Music Awards for brand spanking new Vocal Group in 1996, Single and Song of the Year in 2000, together with Humanitarian of the Year in 2002. They additionally gained Country Music Association’s Vocal Group of the Year and International Artist Achievement Award in 2001.
It celebrated 30 years in 2022.