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North Dakota State Fair announces concert lineup for 2020

The N.D. State Fair announced its completed concert lineup Thursday for the July 17-25 run.

The acts include Billy Idol, Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, Sawyer Brown, Bobby Bones & the Raging Idiots, and Collective Soul, Better than Ezra & special guest Tonic with the already announced concert with Dan + Shay.

Tickets go on sale March 31 at 8 a.m.

Billy Idol, who will appear July 24, was an early architect of the sound, style, and fury of punk rock. He has sold 40 million albums while scoring numerous platinum albums worldwide, nine top forty singles in the U.S. and 10 in the U.K. including “Dancing With Myself” and “Rebel Yell.”

Another notable star, Eric Church, will perform July 18.

The three-time Country Music Association and six-time Academy of Country Music Award winner released his highly-anticipated album Desperate Man atop the Billboard Country Albums chart in late 2018, earning praise as one of the year’s top albums by American Songwriter, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Stereogum, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, USA Today and Vulture, among others. The album is described by Rolling Stone as “classic Church: expertly crafted and country-radio-friendly, while also pushing boundaries in a way that sounds natural and unforced.” Church also returned to the road this year for his critically-acclaimed Double Down Tour, which recently featured a massive stop at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, where he broke the venue’s concert attendance record with more than 56,000 fans.

All five country concerts plus two auto events are on the Grandstand Showpass for one price, $110.

Saturday, July 18 – Eric Church

Sunday, July 19 – Ashley McBryde

Monday, July 20 – Enduro Races

Tuesday, July 21 – Freestyle Motocross

Wednesday, July 22 – Sawyer Brown

Thursday, July 23 – Bobby Bones & the Raging Idiots

Saturday, July 25 – Dan + Shay

Rock Concerts –

Friday, July 17 – Collective Soul, Better than Ezra & special guest Tonic – $35

Friday, July 24 – Billy Idol – $55

The North Dakota State Fair is the largest annual event in North Dakota. The nine-day event is host to around 300,000 people and is held the third week of July.

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