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While both Sugarland and its opener Joe Nichols played country music – filled with honky tonk, mainstream rockers and emotional ballads – they reached the Indiana State Fair audience in different ways Tuesday night.
Nichols’ quirky onstage banter was based on humor, as the duo comprising Sugarland used full throttle energy and enthusiasm to prove why [...]

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The 2008 Hoosier Lottery Grandstand line-up will feature seven straight concerts to fill the Indiana State Fair evening air with music Aug. 8-13. The 2008 concert series begins with Jessica Simpson and also features the Backstreet Boys, American Idol Carrie Underwood and National Public Radio idol Garrison Keillor.
Grandstand artists include:
Thursday, Aug. 7 – Jessica Simpson. [...]

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Jessica Simpson is the latest celebrity to add her name to the Indiana State Fair concert line-up. She will perform on the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand stage Thursday, Aug. 7.
Simpson’s first album contained the hit “I Wanna Love You Forever,” which raced all the way to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She had [...]

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Led by frontman and band namesake Chris Daughtry, famous from the FOX TV hit “American Idol,” Daughtry makes its Indiana State Fair Grandstand debut Saturday, Aug. 9. 
Daughtry, the band’s debut album that is certified Double Platinum, has been a constant near the top of Billboard’s Top 200 albums since its release in November 2006. The [...]

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Since 1974, Keillor has been telling the humorous tales of the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minn., to a growing audience that can’t seem to get enough. On Wednesday, Aug. 13, Keillor and his talented crew of sidekicks will bring their popular traveling production of “A Prairie Home Companion” to the fair’s Grandstand stage as [...]

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The Indiana State Fair is going to get a little bit more country as it announced today that two major country concerts are coming this summer - Carrie Underwood on Aug. 8, and Sugarland on Aug. 12.
Carrie Underwood, the best-selling female country artist each of the last three years, will take the fair’s Grandstand stage [...]

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