Kansas, Collective Soul and Steve Holy will be the evening headliners at this year’s Linn County Fair, which runs Thursday, July 18, through Sunday, July 21, at the Linn County Fair and Expo Center.
Those concerts cap a schedule that includes a wide range of entertainment, ranging from racing pigs to magicians to pedal tractor racing, a reptile exhibit, a birdhouse builders tent, petting zoo, pony rides, bounce village for kids and Super Science.
Fair admission is $7 for those 13 or over and free for children 12 and under. Seniors 60 or over are $5 each. Carnival wristbands that are good all day are $25. Individual carnival rides are $3.50. A variety of season and other passes are also available. For more information, visit http://www.linncountyfair.com/index-1.html.
Reserved concert tickets are $15, but the concert is otherwise free with fair admission, as is the case with all the headliners.
The Fair opens at 11 a.m. Thursday and runs until 11 p.m. It is Senior Day, featuring Senior Bingo and a Senior Ice Cream Social at 2 p.m. in the VIP tent, and seniors 60 or over will get free admission all day. For the general public, admission is free until 3 p.m. and those who buy an all-day carnival ride wristband will get one free at the carnival ticket office.
Arena events, at 6:30 p.m. each day, include barrel racing on Thursday, Bull Bash on Friday and Flyball Dog Competition, Mutton Bustin’, Mini Bulls and Bucking Ponies Saturday.
At 11 a.m. Sunday morning, the KRKT Texaco Country Showdown local competition will take place.
Ty Curtis will perform at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.