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Veteran country star Hank Williams Jr. will perform on the Main Stage on the final night of State Fair, Sunday, Aug. 15 at 6 p.m.
Alex Miller will open the show.
All seats are reserved and tickets – priced at $52 and $57 – go on sale Thursday, May 20 at 9 a.m. at WiStateFair.com. Advance tickets include fair admission the day of the show.
A pre-sale is open for Friends of the Fair members. Friends memberships support the nonprofit Wisconsin State Fair Park Foundation, which supports the fair.
Williams – the son of the legendary Hank Williams and father of Hank Williams III – is a Grammy-winner who has released 40 albums and scored hits with songs like “Family Tradition,” “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound,” “Dinosaur” and “Outlaw Women.”
Miller, just 17 years old, performs a mix of original material and covers.
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.
