KONGOS, July Talk and Cheech & Chong Join Fair Concert Series! If good rock music gets your heart pumping, or if you’re in the mood for some irreverent and hilarious comedy, then you’re going to be excited about the final acts announced for the 2016 AT&T Concert Series at the Alaska State Fair! KONGOS July Talk Cheech & Chong On Sunday, August 28, KONGOS with special guest July Talk performs at the Fair, while the iconic...
Five Alaska high school students will head off to college this fall with some extra funds in their bank accounts, thanks to the Alaska State Fair scholarship fund! The students, who are from across Alaska, received scholarship awards totaling $4,250 this spring. Every student who completed an application also received two free admissions to the 2016 Fair. Congratulations to the 2016-2017 Alaska State Fair scholarship recipients,...
The annual Alaska State Fair is going smoke-free in 2016! The Fair’s new smoke-free policy was adopted earlier this year, and will take effect at the 2016 event, to be held August 25 – September 5. “It’s not about the right to smoke but about the right to not have to breathe second-hand smoke. Smoking is an active choice. Breathing second-hand smoke is not,” said Jerome Hertel, Fair general manager. Hertel added that the policy will...
Responders Test Skills in Emergency Drill at Fairgrounds If you had visited the Alaska State Fairgrounds earlier this month, you likely would have been shocked to see a school bus collided with a train. Figures strewn alongside the railroad tracks. Firefighters carrying victims with head lacerations and other wounds. Blackhawk rotors whirring as it carried patients to the hospital. Luckily, all of these gruesome scenes were staged, as...
It’s spring in Alaska, which means it’s time to start planning for your exhibit entry at the 2016 Alaska State Fair! We’ve got all the details in you need in our 2016 exhibitor guide, now available on our website. No matter what your skill or interest, there are lots of fun exhibit categories to choose from: Art Baked Goods Canning Clay Arts Creative Arts & Crafts Crops Fiber & Fleece Flowers Handwork & Needlework Honey...
Love good music? Well then set your alarm clock early for the morning of Friday, April 8 – at 6 a.m. tickets go on sale for the 2016 AT&T Concert Series at the Alaska State Fair! You won’t want to miss this year’s line-up, featuring: Home Free, Thursday, August 25, 7 p.m. X Ambassadors, Friday, August 26, 7 p.m. The Band Perry, Saturday, August 27, 7 p.m. Old Dominion, Tuesday, August 30, 7 p.m. Thousand Foot Krutch, Wednesday,...
The first-ever Alaska State Fair Concert Kick-Off Party, featuring Redhead Express, is coming up Saturday, April 2 – and here are seven reasons to make sure it’s on your calendar! Be the first to find out the 2016 AT&T Concert Series line-up! We’ll announce the entertainers confirmed to perform at the 2016 Fair (and we don’t think you’ll be disappointed!). Get tickets early and save money. Kick-off party guests can buy tickets to...
The 2016 Alaska State Fair, Inc. annual membership meeting took place Thursday, February 11 at Raven Hall on the fairgrounds, with approximately 100 Fair members and interested supporters in attendance. The main item of business was the election of two members to the Fair’s seven-member board of directors. From a ballot of four candidates, including two incumbents, Fair members voted to reelect Stephen Brown of Palmer and John Tracy...
The Alaska State Fair, Inc. will hold its 2016 annual membership meeting on Thursday, February 11. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in Raven Hall on the fairgrounds. Interested members of the public are invited to attend, but only Fair lifetime and 2015 annual members are eligible to vote at the meeting. The primary order of business is the election of two members to the Fair’s board of directors. Each seat will have a three-year...
2016 Line-Up to be Announced on April 2 at Concert Kick-Off Party. It’s always a good time at the Alaska State Fair Concert Series, so we asked ourselves, “Why shouldn’t the announcement be just as much fun?” This year, for the first time, we will announce the confirmed 2016 entertainers at a Concert Kick-Off Party on Saturday, April 2! The fun takes place at the Glenn Massay Theater on the University of Alaska Mat-Su Campus. Doors...
The Alaska State Fair impressed the judges at the 2015 International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE) convention, bringing home a total of 14 awards, including five first-place honors. This year’s convention took place November 29 – December 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our first-place awards included: Competitive Exhibits Awards, Competitive Exhibit Display Photo (Single) Hall of Honor Communications Awards, Printed Promotional...
From attendance and concert ticket sales to exhibit entries and recycling, the Alaska State Fair continued its upward trend this year. The 2015 Fair was held August 27 – September 7 at the fairgrounds in Palmer. Most notable was estimated attendance, which increased to 299,698 this year, compared to 293,827 last year and 288,499 in 2013. Advance admission sales, including tickets purchased online and at Costco and Three Bears, were up...
MTA is replacing the current WiFi infrastructure at the Alaska State Fair with a more advanced commercial enterprise-grade system that will extend the reach, increase the capacity and improve the reliability of WiFi throughout the fairgrounds. “The upgrades are being made to provide fairgoers and vendors with the latest and greatest in WiFi technology, and to support the growth of WiFi use over the next five years,” said...
A lot of kids are excited to head for the Alaska State Fair this weekend, but probably none so much as the youth participating in the 4-H Junior Market Livestock Auction. The 97 students participating in this year’s auction have spent much of the past year raising an animal for the auction, which takes place this coming Saturday, September 5 in Farm Exhibits at the fairgrounds. “I am very excited about this fair! I can’t...
