The temperatures are rising, the summer is coming to a close, and that means it’s almost time for the Roosevelt County Fair! Between cotton candy, livestock showings, games, funnel cakes, and rides, there will be something for everyone to enjoy. Mark your calendars for August 21-August 25. Fiesta Day will be August 26.

Every year our county fair includes livestock, home arts, and fine arts shows and competition, live music, lots of vendors, and of course, a carnival. Roosevelt County strives to provide great entertainment for the whole family.

2018 Daily Tickets:
Adults $6 (Tues-Thurs)
Adults $8 (Fri & Sat)
Adults $10 (Saturday 1pm-Midnight)
Child (5-17 yrs.) $4
(Child age 4 and under free)

2018 Season Passes:
Adults $25
Children (5-17) $15
Youth Animal Exhibitors $5

Entertainers This Year

Bakersfield Twang

While vintage to late model country music is the core of Bakersfield Twang, the band spices up their shows with great songs from other genres. Whether playing country, Texas Red Dirt, rock, blues, funk, or tejano, the music is delivered with great energy and fun.

With years of performing experience, this band knows what it takes to entertain. From the song selection to the sound quality to the band member’s personalities, audiences of all ages will enjoy themselves.

You can catch their performance on Wednesday, Aug. 22 starting at 8 PM. If you’d like more information, click here to visit their Facebook page!

Will Banister and the Modern Day Ramblers

Will Banister first gained attention when his Turned Her On To Country album gathered a rave review in the consumer monthly Country Music People.

Next, his song Turned Her On To Country enjoyed a four week stay at number one in the UK’s weekly Hot Disc charts, ensuring the singer a radio audience way beyond British shores. The Wembley visitor not only proved a winner with the country audience but also gained attention of the national media, with the Daily Telegraph’s Douglas McPherson concluding his Wembley review: “The most memorable moment [of the festival] found 23 year old Will Banister wowing the crowd with a sublimely straightforward Lovesick Blues. Sixty-three years after Hank Williams sang the same song, it was proof that country, like rock ‘n’ roll, will never die.”

Will Banister now follows in the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Don Williams and Boxcar Willie, all of whom launched their successful British careers after similar rapturous festival debuts.

You can catch his performance on Thursday, Aug. 23 at 8:00 PM. If you’d like more information, click here.

Randall King Band

Recognized by Garth Brooks as the new face of Country Music. “This kid is what country music is all about to me…the newcomer was most likely destined for greatness.”

Humble beginnings, a cultivated work ethic and the influences of classic country legends, synchronized together in perfect harmony, make up singer-songwriter from the West Texas Plains, Randall King.

Growing up a fourth generation hay-hauler, many of King’s songs are written and inspired by his deep southern heritage and family roots.
King was raised listening to the rich and soulful, classic country voices of Keith Whitley, George Strait and Alan Jackson, to name a few, which helped create King’s musical style into what many have described as neo-traditional country. “Randall King remains to the heart and soul of country music, but no doubt brings his own unique brand to the genre,” says hit songwriter Mark Nesler (co-writer of “Just To See You Smile” by Tim McGraw, “You Look Good In My Shirt” by Keith Urban).
With a sound rooted in tradition and songwriting that showcases honesty, conviction and authenticity, King connects with fans on all emotional levels. “Randall King has a great voice that sounds classic, yet is fresh and as a songwriter he actually has something to say – be it something that touches your heart or something simple and fun that makes you wanna get out and raise some hell.” said multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Anthony Smith (co-writer of “Run” & “Cowboys Like Us” by George Strait).

Unlike the west Texas wind, King is a grounded and talented singer-songwriter who is sure to stay. “There’s a lot of people that want country music to come back around, and there’s a lot of people that will say you have to sell out and play radio hits to make it. I think for me I want to make my stamp as an artist with this record, that I can be me and still make an impact across the country.

Randall King will be performing for your entertainment on Friday, Aug. 24 at 8:00 PM. If you’d like to visit his Facebook, click here.

Coby Carter

Coby Carter, 23 year old native of Portales, NM, graduated from ENMU with an Ag Business degree in 2017. Coby has been playing music since he was 6 and strives to keep to his roots with traditional country shuffles and western swing dance tunes.

In 2013 he won the Rising Star Award from the Cowtown Society of Western Music. He is the 2014 and 2015 Academy of Western Artists Western Swing Male Vocalist of the Year. He and his band were named Western Swing Duo/Group for 2015. Also, he was honored to be a top five finalist for Male Vocalist of the Year for the 2015 Ameripolitan Awards.

Coby had the opportunity to record his first CD “Legends” with Grammy Award Winner Bobby Flores producing, it featured duets with such greats as Bobby Flores, Jake Hooker, and Leon Rausch. The album was nominated for Western Swing Album of the Year, and Pure Country Album of the year for the 2014 AWAs.

Coby will be releasing a new single in 2018 also produced by Bobby Flores.You can go to Coby’s website for a sample of the CD and pictures at cobycartermusic.com

Our hometown boy will be performing Saturday, Aug. 25 at 8:00 PM. For his Facebook, click here.

Micky & the Motorcars

Led by frontman Micky Braun and his brother, guitarist Gary Braun, and initially featuring childhood friends Travis Hardy on drums and Mark McCoy on bass, Micky & the Motorcars rolled out of the Sawtooth Mountains of Stanley, Idaho in a cloud of Americana dust. The sons of veteran Western swing musician Muzzie Braun, Micky and Gary, along with older brothers Cody and Willy, spent their childhood as part of Muzzie Braun & the Little Braun Brothers band, and were stage veterans before their teens. Eventually Cody and Willy Braun left the band to form Reckless Kelly, with Micky and Gary soon following suit, moving to Austin, Texas with Hardy and McCoy as Micky & the Motorcars. Once in Texas they added Joseph Deeb on lead guitar, rounding out the group’s lineup. Developing a straight-ahead style of alternative country-rock, the band released an independent album, Which Way from Here, in 2002, following it with Ain’t in It for the Money on the Smith Music Group label in 2004. Hardy had left the band by that point, being replaced by Shane Vannerson, the first of several occasional shakeups to the Motorcars’ lineup.

Micky & the Motorcars signed to Smith in 2007, releasing Careless that year. The next year, Naive became their first album to chart on Billboard, and it also featured guitarist Kris Farrow, who stayed with the band through 2011; he was replaced by Dustin Schaefer. That year, the group put out Raise My Glass, which debuted at 36 on Billboard’s country chart. McCoy left the band after its release — his replacement was Joe Fladger — and tragically died in a rafting accident in April 2012. Vannerson left the band in 2013 and was replaced by Bobby Paugh, and this lineup recorded 2014’s Hearts from Above, which debuted at 17 on Billboard’s country chart.

Micky & the Motorcars will be performing Saturday Night at 9:00 PM in the Events Arena! Here is their Facebook page.