Thursday, October 07, 2004
Coshocton County Fair plan of '05 starts now
From the Coschocton (OH) Tribune
As the 153rd annual Coshocton County Fair ends tonight, work on next year's fair is already under way.
"We're always working on trying to improve the fair to make it nicer for the fairgoers," said Linda White, fair board secretary.
Rodney Adams, fair board president, laughed when asked when preparations for the 2005 fair would begin.
"We already have," he said. "We look at things every day of this year's fair to see what we may want to change for next year."
"Usually by December we try to have a good idea of the entertainment, because if we don't book it that far in advance, we may not be able to get who we want," White said.
White said the Coshocton County Fair has a great record of finding unknown country music performers who eventually reach big time recording success. The list includes Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, Alabama, Loretta Lynn, Brad Paisley, the Judds, Sawyer Brown and Martina McBride.
One of the duties of Jim McClure, fair board treasurer, is lining up the grandstand entertainment, and he says booking affordable talent a year in advance can be "like playing the stock market."
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Coshocton Tribune
As the 153rd annual Coshocton County Fair ends tonight, work on next year's fair is already under way.
"We're always working on trying to improve the fair to make it nicer for the fairgoers," said Linda White, fair board secretary.
Rodney Adams, fair board president, laughed when asked when preparations for the 2005 fair would begin.
"We already have," he said. "We look at things every day of this year's fair to see what we may want to change for next year."
"Usually by December we try to have a good idea of the entertainment, because if we don't book it that far in advance, we may not be able to get who we want," White said.
White said the Coshocton County Fair has a great record of finding unknown country music performers who eventually reach big time recording success. The list includes Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, Alabama, Loretta Lynn, Brad Paisley, the Judds, Sawyer Brown and Martina McBride.
One of the duties of Jim McClure, fair board treasurer, is lining up the grandstand entertainment, and he says booking affordable talent a year in advance can be "like playing the stock market."
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Coshocton Tribune
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 9:50 AM 
