{"id":157549,"date":"2026-04-05T03:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157549\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:02:07","slug":"erie-county-fair-announces-first-wave-of-2026-grandstand-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157549\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Fair announces first wave of 2026 grandstand shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erie County Fair revealed the first wave of its paid grandstand lineup, featuring artists across multiple genres. The schedule spans more than a week.<\/p>\n<p>HAMBURG, N.Y. \u2014 The Erie County Fair recently announced the first wave of its 2026 paid grandstand entertainment lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The group features a mix of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/entertainment\/music\/artists-concerts-western-new-york-buffalo-2026\/71-558bbc71-2260-4529-80e3-0fb999c2ac72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">nationally recognized musicians<\/a> and a comedian set to perform at the grandstand, between Aug. 12 and Aug. 23 in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>The initial lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p>Happy Together Tour on Friday, Aug. 14 at 7:30 p.m., featuring &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s pop-rock classics from The Association, The Troggs, former Chicago lead singer Jason Scheff, Gary Puckett, The Fortunes, Ron Dante, The Vogues, and The Cowsills;Country artists Joe Nichols, Phil Vassar, and Mark Wills on Saturday, Aug. 15;Country-folk artists Max McNown with Waylon Wyatt on Sunday, Aug. 16;Alt-rock bands Blues Traveler, Gin Blossoms, and Spin Doctors on Tuesday, Aug. 18;Comedian Jeff Foxworthyon Wednesday, Aug. 19.                    <\/p>\n<p>Blues Traveler had announced its Hamburg date <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/entertainment\/music\/summer-concert-blues-traveler-gin-blossoms-spin-doctors\/71-716e919b-b014-4def-b739-c5c0feb64af4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">back in January<\/a>, but the Erie County Fair conformation did not come until this past week.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/entertainment\/music\/artists-concerts-western-new-york-buffalo-2026\/71-558bbc71-2260-4529-80e3-0fb999c2ac72\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Discover concerts coming 2 Western New York<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie County Fair revealed the first wave of its paid grandstand lineup, featuring artists across multiple genres.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-157549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}