2025 Fair Reaches for the Stars—and Beyond 2025 Fair breaks all-time attendance record, sold-out shows and new state records Palmer, Alaska – The 2025 Alaska State Fair didn’t just reach for the stars—it shot past them, continuing a streak of record-breaking attendance, sold-out shows and new state records, and ranking among the nation’s best state…
Fair Elects New Board Member
Fair Annual Meeting Recap Prizes and Election Results Palmer, Alaska – The 2017 Alaska State Fair, Inc. annual membership meeting took place last week at Raven Hall on the fairgrounds, with approximately 50 Fair members and interested supporters in attendance. The main item of business was the election of three members to the Fair’s seven-member board of directors. From a ballot of five candidates, including two incumbents, Fair...
Fair’s 2017 Concert Series Has It All!
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 24 Country superstar? Check. Chart-topping modern rockers? Check. Grammy Award winners? Multi-platinum artists? American rock legends? Check, check and check. We’ve got it all in our 2017 AT&T Concert Series at the Alaska State Fair! And we are thrilled to announce the first eight acts confirmed for this year’s line-up: Home Free, Thursday, August 24, 7pm, presented by K-Bear 104.1 Alaska’s Hottest...
Candlelight Vigil of Hope & Prayer
On Friday, December 9th at 6pm at the Borealis Theatre on the Fairgrounds. Public parking at Purple Gate. A public candelight Vigil of Hope and Prayer for David Grunwald at the Alaska State Fairgrounds in the Borealis Theatre. David’s parents, Ben and Edie have requested this time for our community to come together and begin the healing through fellowship, support and prayer. At the end of the ceremony, 100 floating lanterns will be...
2016 Fair Highlights
The Alaska State Fair celebrated our 80th birthday at the 2016 event, which took place August 25 – September 5 at the fairgrounds in Palmer. Here are some of our favorite highlights from 2016: Attendance. An estimated 293,424 people came to help the Fair celebrate in 2016. This was down from 299,698 last year, but on par with the 293,827 fairgoers in 2014. Following the historical trend, Saturday was the most popular day to visit,...
Scholarship Awards Triple
Quilt Raffle Helps Triple Fair Scholarship Awards The Alaska State Fair will be able to triple our scholarship awards next year thanks to several successful fundraising efforts including the commemorative quilt raffle that took place during the 2016 Fair. In celebration of our 80th birthday, we raffled off a commemorative Fair quilt, with all proceeds benefiting the Fair scholarship fund. Lorraine Stotts was the lucky winner of the...
Palmer, Alaska – Due to illness in the touring party, Blues Traveler has to cancel it’s August 24, 2023 performance at Alaska State Fair. The band looks forward to returning to Alaska soon. In their place, the Fair has confirmed award-winning classic rockers Foghat who will perform Thursday, August 24, at 7 p.m. Foghat is…