Tickets for the first six concerts at this year’s Alaska State Fair went on sale Friday, as the fair announced the first acts in the 2023 AT&T Concert Series.
The acts at the ConocoPhillips Borealis Theatre in the Palmer fairgrounds include:
- Saturday, Aug. 19: Turnpike Troubadours: A “gritty country-rock band,” the Turnpike Troubadours debuted in 2005 and reached 3 on Billboard’s Top 10 Independent Albums chart.
- Monday, Aug. 21: FOR KING & COUNTRY: The “Christian pop duo,” been awarded four Grammy awards and reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Top 200 Album Chart.
- Thursday, Aug. 24: Blues Traveler: The blues-rock band has 14 studio albums, four of which have gone gold, three platinum, and one a six-times platinum.
- Friday, Aug. 25: Flogging Molly: The punk-Celtic band just released its seventh full-length album, Anthem, which rose to Top 10 on the Billboard Americana/Folk, Alternative, Independent, and Rock albums charts.
- Friday, Sept. 1: Megadeth: A top thrash metal band with over 38 million albums sold worldwide; many metalhead fans in Alaska will search out tickets for this bank.
- Monday, Sept. 4: Noah Cyrus: The Nashville-born, Los Angeles singer and songwriter burst on the scene in 2016, was on Billboard’s “21 Under 21” list for three years in a row, and was a Best New Artist Grammy nomination.
- Tickets are available at the Fair website, alaskastatefair.org. Concert-goers may purchase concert-only tickets or tickets that include Fair admission at a discounted price, good for any day of the Fair, which runs Aug. 18-Sept. 4.
