Wisconsin State Fair today announced two Main Stage headliners for this year’s festival, which runs Thursday, Aug. 2 to Sunday, Aug. 12.
Country legend – and new Colonel Sanders – Reba McEntire will close the fair with a 6 p.m. performance on Aug. 12. Tickets for this show are $59 and $49.
No opening act was announced.
Meanwhile, The Happy Together tour returns to the Fair with its mix of ‘60s and ‘70s hits on Sunday, Aug. 5 at 7 p.m.
This package tour includes The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, Three Dog Night’s Chuck Negron, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, The Association, The Cowsills and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & The Raiders.
Tickets for the Happy Together show are $39 and $29.
Tickets for both shows (which include fair admission) go on sale Friday, March 2 at 9 a.m. at WiStateFair.com and in person at the State Fair ticket office. The office, at 7722 W. Greenfield Ave. in West Allis, is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
