Minnesota State Fair (Aug 27-Sep 7, 2026)

August 27, 2026-September 7, 2026
Minnesota State Fair
at Minnesota State Fairgrounds
mnstatefair.org

The great Minnesota Get-Together, Minnesota State Fair was voted #1 best fair in the country two years in a row by USA Today (2025-2026) (I wonder where Donald Trump’s poorly attended Great American State Fair rank). There’s no doubt about it, the annual Minnesota State Fair is the largest in the country, and it’s all good times with music and entertainment.

We went in Oct 2025 and wrote, ““I’ve never sang in front of pork chops smoke before,” Ber said on her first set at the MPR stage, at the great get-together, the Minnesota State Fair, on a hot Sunday. Unlike her previous appearances, such as her first show at First Avenue, with Sigrid, in Oct 2022, this Minnesota State Fair show is all acoustic. Not great, as the acoustic music, mostly handled by Brian, does not drown out all the excitement of the spin-the-wheel next door. We previously mentioned that Ber (originally from Minnesota) moved to London and was ‘discovered’ by Zane Lowe and Travis Mills of Beats 1 and BBC Radio One. When we saw her in 2022, we mentioned that she was working on her debut EP. That EP was called And I’m Still Thinking About That, and since then, she’s released Halfway and Room For You (her latest)… We also got the secret story behind “Your Internet Sucks”, which I’ve always thought was about a British boy that she dated for a year. She tells us one time she was making homemade potato gnocchi for his visit. She said it would take a good three hours to get it ready, and he showed up after driving an hour. He wanted to rest, so she left him alone for a few hours. When she finally came to get him, the whole time he was playing Fortnite on his iPad. Anyway, the song wishes that he has all the inconvenience of life… including the curse of bad internet. That’s cold, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. She ended her set with “Whatever Forever”, with Eric on tambourine. Of course, this was the great Minnesota State Fair, one of the largest, if not the largest?, in the country, and draws in thousands of Minnesotans. There are plenty of entertainment, fun for the whole family!”