Thank you, Minnesota, for visiting the 2011 State Fair for Free Stage Entertainment! Next year's Free Stage lineup will be announced in late spring 2012. If you'd like to be the first to know, click here, to be added to our e-mail list! We hope to see you at the 2012 Great Minnesota Get-Together, Aug. 23-Labor Day, Sept. 3!

List of 2011 Performers

 

Leinie Lodge
Bandshell Tonight! 

sponsored by Leinenkugel's
and City Pages

  • Morris Day & the Time
  • Ricky Skaggs
  • Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles
  • The Midtown Men, Four Stars from the Original Cast of Jersey Boys
  • Dr. John & the Lower 911
  • Tapes 'n Tapes

The Leinie Lodge Bandshell

sponsored by Leinenkugel's
and City Pages

  • Bob Wootton - The Songs and Sounds of Johnny Cash, Amanda Shaw and The Cute Guys, Will Hoge
  • The Quebe Sisters Band, Marcia Ball, Jason Jones
  • 34th Infantry Division "Red Bull" Band, Paulette Carlson, Street Corner Symphony
  • Squeezebox, Heybale!, The Wright Brothers
  • Jana Anderson, Tonic Sol-fa, Junior Brown
  • Joe Robinson, Five By Design, The McClymonts, The Bad Larrys

Ramberg Senior Center Stage

  • The Mellow Fellows, Jennifer Markey
  • The Banjo Boys, The Squires
  • The Gallivanters, Second Wind Harmonica Band
  • Jim Berner's Music Legends, Julie Lee's White Rose Band
  • The Blazers, James Wedgwood Ventriloquist
  • Papa John & The Cool Club, Red Johnson

 Bazaar After Dark 

sponsored by Summit Brewing Co.

  • The Belfast Cowboys
  • Free and Easy
  • Rubber Soul - Beatles Tribute
  • Ronn Easton's All Star Soul Review
  • Boiled in Lead
  • High & Mighty

International Bazaar

sponsored by Summit Brewing Co.

  • Lehto & Wright, Sisters of Swing in Concert
  • Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, Charanga Tropical
  • The Brass Messengers, Chuck Thiel & The Jolly Ramblers
  • Exotik-A-GoGo, Native Pride Dancers
  • Jack Brass Band, Dan Newton's Cafe Accordion Orchestra
  • Laura MacKenzie Trio,
    Mariachi Flor Y Canto

Festival of Nations Demo Stage

  • Lebanese Belly Dancers
  • O'Shea Irish Dancers
  • Hybar International Dancers
  • Japanese Dance and
    Kimono Demonstration
  • Thai Vegetable Carver
  • Italian Organ Grinder
  • Thai Vegetable Carver
  • Lebanese Belly Dancers
  • Orkestar Bez Ime
  • Armenian Dancers
  • O'Shea Irish Dancers
  • Lebanese Belly Dancers

Family Fair Stage in Baldwin Park

  • Sean Emery, Monster Shop Bump'n with the BC Characters
  • The Spoon Man
  • Koo Koo Kanga Roo
  • Greg Frisbee
  • Kidsdance
  • Kenny Ahern
  • Sheltered Reality

Doggies of the Wild West Show
 

Heritage at Sundown 

sponsored by August Schell Brewing Co.

  • Rogue Valley
  • The Twilight Hours
  • The Barley Jacks with Brian Wicklund
  • Deke Dickerson
  • Alison Scott
  • White Iron Band

Heritage Square

sponsored by August Schell Brewing Co.

  • The Top Notchmen, Kerry Christensen Master Yodeler
  • Wild Goose Chase Cloggers, The Minnesota State Fiddle Contest
  • Wally Pikal, Barbary Coast Dixieland Show Band
  • The High 48s Bluegrass Band, The Tommy Horton Show
  • Dick Kimmel & Adam Granger,
    The Minnesota Flatpicking Guitar and Duet Championships
  • Steve Kaul & The Brass Kings, Barefoot Becky & The Ivanhoe Dutchmen

The North Woods

sponsored by Gander Mountain


Appearing all twelve days of the fair:

  • IRONJACK Timber Team
  • Ron Schara's Minnesota Bound

The X-Zone

Appearing all twelve days of the fair:

  • 3rd Lair SkatePark
  • Flippenout Extreme Trampoline Show
  • Music Mayhem