The Pike County Fair will be hosting its annual country music concert again this year. The concert will be on Thursday, August 1, 2024.
Jared Allman who is one of the members of the fair’s entertainment committee said, “So we are going to have a local guy … his name is Moose Miller. He’s actually from Pike County, and he attended school at Eastern. Then we are having a guy named River Dan, and the headline act will be Jackson Dean.”
According to Allman, the opening act will probably start somewhere around 6:30 p.m.
“He (Miller) will play for half an hour or a little bit longer. So, that will be until 7 p.m. Then the next guy will probably go on at around 7:15 p.m. or so,” Allman said. He’ll play until 7:45 p.m. Then Jackson Dean will come on somewhere around 8:15 p.m. or 8:30 p.m.”
There will be a ticket website, which will be put on the Pike County’s Fair Facebook page (called Pike County Fairgrounds) where people can purchase tickets. There will also be posters and they will have a QR code on them for anyone interested in going to the concert to scan. The QR code will take them to the ticketing website where they can get their tickets.
“We will have the posters posted at as many businesses that will allow us to hang them up,” Allman said. “Entrance into the fair itself will get you into the grandstands; so if you come and buy a ticket into the fair, you can come and sit in the grandstands, if there are seats available, for free,” Allman said. “We have track tickets, so it is down on our track close to the stage. Those are the tickets that are going to be for sale on our website. We want to make sure that people know, if you’re at the fair, all it takes is a ticket into the fair, and you can come watch the concert.”
“The committee’s goal has always been to bring the biggest and best talent they can to a small town. The fair is the only place where people can see their favorite artists for not a lot of money,” Allman said.
“We try our best to bring a concert to our area that not many people have the opportunity to go and see. These artists that we try to bring in are the ones who play in Columbus and Cincinnati, or even in Lexington. So, we do our best to bring what we would consider big city shows to our small town at least once a year for the people who aren’t able to drive to Columbus or Cincinnati for an evening and watch a concert.”
Allman explained that the fair and especially the concert could not happen without their sponsors. Because there is so much stuff that goes with the concert like the lights and sound, the stage and the artists, fencing and chairs, even the food. So, without the generosity and support of the local businesses, the concert would not happen. It doesn’t matter how much money a sponsor gives to the fair, they will have a banner hanging up at the concert for people to see that they have done something to help the fair put on the concert.
Allman said, “One of our biggest sponsors is Adena, and because of Adena’s commitment with us, any child in Pike County’s 4-H program gets to be on the track one hundred percent free. So any child inside of the 4-H program is absolutely welcome, thanks to Adena. They have already agreed to be a sponsor again this year. Adena was like, ‘We love the idea of supporting and being involved in the concert, but how can it help the kids?’ They were sponsors last year, so we came up with this idea of what about every kid in 4_H can come watch the concert for free? The kids are there working all week, and this is their night to have fun. And the lady with Adena said, ‘I love that.’ So, every 4-H kid gets into that concert on the track one hundred percent free.”
According to Allman, people don’t realize the magnitude of what the committee does at the concert. He encourages people to come to the fair concert, even if they are unsure because they will see the stage and lights, the sound and think to themselves, this is a real concert; and he promises if people just come to the concert, they will walk away saying that it was a really good concert.
“We wanna give people that buzz of who is Pike County going to have next year because that concert was awesome, and we are already excited to come back,” Allman said
“Let’s say that a less fortunate family is able to come to the fair and there’s a mom and a dad and a kid. They spend thirty dollars to get into the fair and they get to come down and see a concert that might cost them a hundred or more dollars per person to go somewhere else. Those people are going to leave saying, ‘Man, that was an awesome show,’ so that’s what we’re trying to accomplish. We’re trying to get people excited, and we’re trying to get people to gain a little bit of trust in us. We want people to say we don’t know who they are going to have this year. But I’m sure it’s going to be awesome and we’re definitely going to go.”
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