Quilt Raffle Helps Triple Fair Scholarship Awards The Alaska State Fair will be able to triple our scholarship awards next year thanks to several successful fundraising efforts including the commemorative quilt raffle that took place during the 2016 Fair. In celebration of our 80th birthday, we raffled off a commemorative Fair quilt, with all proceeds benefiting the Fair scholarship fund. Lorraine Stotts was the lucky winner of the...
Brews and Boos at October 29 Boo Fest! Love beer? Love Halloween? Enjoy both at this year’s Mighty Monster Boo Fest (aka the Mighty Matanuska Brewfest) on Saturday, October 29, from 6 – 10 p.m. at Raven Hall on the Alaska State Fairgrounds! There will be plenty of brews and Halloween fun at this year’s event, which will feature beers and brewers from the Mat-Su Valley, across Alaska and around the world. We’re excited to feature...
After-Party with Iron Butterfly Monday, August 29 Alaska Glacier Products Tent 8:30pm FREE with Fair admission Iron Butterfly will be rockin’ the after-party immediately following the Monday, August 29 AT&T Concert Series performance of Cheech and Chong! After the show wraps up at the Kendall Toyota Borealis Theatre, head over to the Alaska Glacier Products Tent, where the multi-platinum rock band will perform at 8:30pm FREE with...
Glenn-Parks Project Not Expected to Delay Fair Traffic How will the road construction at the Glenn-Parks Interchange affect traffic to the Alaska State Fair? It’s a question that’s been coming up more frequently as the Fair draws near. “We know that fairgoers will appreciate the improvements to the roadway. However, we also know fairgoers are concerned about possible traffic delays on their way to the Fair,” said Jerome Hertel, Fair...
Quilt Raffle Celebrates Fair 80th Birthday & Raises Money for Scholarship Fund! In celebration of the Alaska State Fair’s 80th birthday, we are raffling off a commemorative Fair quilt, with all proceeds benefiting the Fair scholarship fund! Even if you don’t win the quilt grand prize, you still have a chance to win a $100 or a $50 souvenir gift certificate as second or third prize. We’re only selling 2,500 tickets and they are...
Dena’ – People’s Stage dedication to be held August 27 After years of fundraising, planning and construction, the much-awaited Dena’ – People’s Stage is now completed at the Alaska State Fair! A dedication of the 1,000-square-foot permanent stage, located at The Gathering Place on the fairgrounds, will take place Saturday, August 27 at 1 p.m. All are invited to attend. The dedication will include an introduction of the Fair board...
Craft Beer Tasting and Family Fun at KONGOS Pre-Concert Party If you love the outdoors, craft beer, family fun and good music, then you have got to put this event on your calendar! Alaska State Fair and Great Land Trust are hosting the Sapling and Smolt Soirée on Sunday, August 28 at the fairgrounds. This pre-concert party for KONGOS and July Talk takes place from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Borealis Plaza Tent. Come sample some amazing local...
Featuring Alaska hip-hop artist Tayy Tarantino Keep the party going after the G-Eazy concert at an after-party featuring Tayy Tarantino, a hip-hop recording artist and songwriter from Anchorage, Alaska! The party happens Thursday, September 1 at 8:30 p.m. (or after the G-Eazy concert ends) in Alaska Glacier Products Events Tent. $5 cover charge* Tayy, who began rapping at the age of 10, started his music career in the youth choir at...
Congratulations to the Plagerman family of Delta Junction, who has been selected by the Alaska agriculture community as the 2016 Alaska State Fair Farm Family of the Year. The Plagermans will be honored at opening day of the Fair on Thursday, August 25. Scott and Connie Plagerman established Scott Plagerman Farms LLC in 2008. They grow hay and sell it to horse owners, beef, yak and sheep farmers, and the Musk Ox Farm. They also sell...
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Fourth-generation Alaskan and artist Ruth Hulbert designed the 2016 Fair commemorative poster artwork, unofficially titled “The Work of Many Hands.” The poster’s quilt pattern includes eight squares, representing significant moments in each decade of the Fair, plus one square representing the Fair as an ongoing work in progress. Hulbert carefully researched the Fair’s history as part of this project, and her...
13th Annual Summer Solstice Tourneys June 20 – June 24 starting at 8 a.m. Alaska Dogs Gone Wild, Alaska’s first flyball club, was created in 2004 and is based in Anchorage, Alaska. Our main goals are to have fun with our dogs, enjoy socializing with our teammates, and promote competitive flyball in Alaska. Four days of racing • Stunning backdrop of mountains • A “midnight sun” • Hospitality as big as the great state...
Tickets are now on sale for all 12 shows in the Alaska State Fair’s 2016 AT&T Concert Series, including the most recently announced acts – KONGOS with special guest July Talk and Cheech & Chong featuring special guest Shelby Chong! Tickets for these two shows went on sale to the general public today, Friday, June 3, at 6 a.m. KONGOS July Talk Cheech & Chong The rock band of brothers KONGOS, Canadian rockers July Talk and...
KONGOS, July Talk and Cheech & Chong Join Fair Concert Series! If good rock music gets your heart pumping, or if you’re in the mood for some irreverent and hilarious comedy, then you’re going to be excited about the final acts announced for the 2016 AT&T Concert Series at the Alaska State Fair! KONGOS July Talk Cheech & Chong On Sunday, August 28, KONGOS with special guest July Talk performs at the Fair, while the iconic...
Five Alaska high school students will head off to college this fall with some extra funds in their bank accounts, thanks to the Alaska State Fair scholarship fund! The students, who are from across Alaska, received scholarship awards totaling $4,250 this spring. Every student who completed an application also received two free admissions to the 2016 Fair. Congratulations to the 2016-2017 Alaska State Fair scholarship recipients,...
The annual Alaska State Fair is going smoke-free in 2016! The Fair’s new smoke-free policy was adopted earlier this year, and will take effect at the 2016 event, to be held August 25 – September 5. “It’s not about the right to smoke but about the right to not have to breathe second-hand smoke. Smoking is an active choice. Breathing second-hand smoke is not,” said Jerome Hertel, Fair general manager. Hertel added that the policy will...
Responders Test Skills in Emergency Drill at Fairgrounds If you had visited the Alaska State Fairgrounds earlier this month, you likely would have been shocked to see a school bus collided with a train. Figures strewn alongside the railroad tracks. Firefighters carrying victims with head lacerations and other wounds. Blackhawk rotors whirring as it carried patients to the hospital. Luckily, all of these gruesome scenes were staged, as...
It’s spring in Alaska, which means it’s time to start planning for your exhibit entry at the 2016 Alaska State Fair! We’ve got all the details in you need in our 2016 exhibitor guide, now available on our website. No matter what your skill or interest, there are lots of fun exhibit categories to choose from: Art Baked Goods Canning Clay Arts Creative Arts & Crafts Crops Fiber & Fleece Flowers Handwork & Needlework Honey...
Love good music? Well then set your alarm clock early for the morning of Friday, April 8 – at 6 a.m. tickets go on sale for the 2016 AT&T Concert Series at the Alaska State Fair! You won’t want to miss this year’s line-up, featuring: Home Free, Thursday, August 25, 7 p.m. X Ambassadors, Friday, August 26, 7 p.m. The Band Perry, Saturday, August 27, 7 p.m. Old Dominion, Tuesday, August 30, 7 p.m. Thousand Foot Krutch, Wednesday,...
The first-ever Alaska State Fair Concert Kick-Off Party, featuring Redhead Express, is coming up Saturday, April 2 – and here are seven reasons to make sure it’s on your calendar! Be the first to find out the 2016 AT&T Concert Series line-up! We’ll announce the entertainers confirmed to perform at the 2016 Fair (and we don’t think you’ll be disappointed!). Get tickets early and save money. Kick-off party guests can buy tickets to...
The 2016 Alaska State Fair, Inc. annual membership meeting took place Thursday, February 11 at Raven Hall on the fairgrounds, with approximately 100 Fair members and interested supporters in attendance. The main item of business was the election of two members to the Fair’s seven-member board of directors. From a ballot of four candidates, including two incumbents, Fair members voted to reelect Stephen Brown of Palmer and John Tracy...
The Alaska State Fair, Inc. will hold its 2016 annual membership meeting on Thursday, February 11. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in Raven Hall on the fairgrounds. Interested members of the public are invited to attend, but only Fair lifetime and 2015 annual members are eligible to vote at the meeting. The primary order of business is the election of two members to the Fair’s board of directors. Each seat will have a three-year...
2016 Line-Up to be Announced on April 2 at Concert Kick-Off Party. It’s always a good time at the Alaska State Fair Concert Series, so we asked ourselves, “Why shouldn’t the announcement be just as much fun?” This year, for the first time, we will announce the confirmed 2016 entertainers at a Concert Kick-Off Party on Saturday, April 2! The fun takes place at the Glenn Massay Theater on the University of Alaska Mat-Su Campus. Doors...
The Alaska State Fair impressed the judges at the 2015 International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE) convention, bringing home a total of 14 awards, including five first-place honors. This year’s convention took place November 29 – December 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Our first-place awards included: Competitive Exhibits Awards, Competitive Exhibit Display Photo (Single) Hall of Honor Communications Awards, Printed Promotional...
