{"id":62,"date":"2008-07-20T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-07-20T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T06:00:44","slug":"rock-and-roll-with-some-country-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2008\/07\/20\/rock-and-roll-with-some-country-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock, and Roll, with some Country and Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/escs-logo-color-no-fair-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63 alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"escs-logo-color-no-fair-copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/escs-logo-color-no-fair-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s finally here! The announcement of the 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2008\/ConcertsEntertainment\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">L.A. County Fair End of Summer Concert Series<\/span><\/a>, presented by Toyota. We\u2019ve added a new moniker to part of the lineup \u2013 Adrenaline Nights, which will feature an expanded extreme sports series. Great entertainment for a great price. Check our Web site for full details. So, without further ado, here you go:<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0WAR &#8211; Friday, Sept. 5<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Sugarland &#8211; Saturday, Sept.\u00a0 6 (totally hot right now!)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0The Doobie Brothers and Grand Funk Railroad &#8211; Sunday, Sept. 7 (\u201cSouth City Midnight Lady, I\u2019m much obliged indeed\u2026\u201d OMG, if they sing this, I\u2019ll faint! Memories of a 9 year old listening to her brother\u2019s albums)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Monster Truck Madness &#8211; Thursday, Sept. 11<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Smokey Robinson &#8211; Friday, Sept. 12 (That\u2019s the Legendary Smokey!)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0KC &amp; The Sunshine Band with Village People &#8211; Saturday, Sept. 13 (That\u2019s the way, uh huh, uh huh we like it!)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Jaguares &#8211; Sunday, Sept. 14<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0American Daredevils-Random Acts of Recklessness &#8211; Thursday, Sept. 18<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0The Bangles, Berlin featuring Terri Nunn and The Motels featuring Martha Davis &#8211; Friday, Sept. 19 (Ah, the \u201880s \u2013 I miss \u2018em! \u201cJust another Manic Monday, ooowwwo, wish it were Sunday!\u201d)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Jessica Simpson &#8211; Saturday, Sept. 20 (Yes, that Jessica Simpson!)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0MARIACHI USA\u00aeFIESTA, Presented by Univision and San Manuel Indian Bingo &amp; Casino &#8211; Sunday, Sept. 21<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Guilherme Marchi Classic Professional Bull Riders , Presented by Jeffrey Scott\u00aeFine Magnetics &#8211; Thursday, Sept. 25<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Charlie Wilson &amp; the Gap Band, Rose Royce and Lakeside &#8211; Friday, Sept. 26 (The Gap Band! \u201cYou dropped a bomb on me, baby, you dropped a bomb on me\u201d \u2013 I\u2019m dancing already!)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0LG World Championships of Freestyle Motocross, Presented by ASA Entertainment &#8211; Saturday, Sept. 27<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Lifehouse, Gavin Rossdale &#8211; Sunday, Sept. 28 (Yes, that Gavin Rossdale! Former front man of Bush, heavenly voice, husband to Gwen, father to Kingston, \u201cLove Remains the Same,\u201d Oh, yes it does, Gavin!)<br \/>\nDon\u2019t miss out. I\u2019ve seen several concerts here and they\u2019re always great. Sound is great, seats are good pretty much anywhere you sit. If you see some brown-haired woman dancing and singing in the audience, that\u2019s me. See you there!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/gavin-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66 alignleft\" style=\"FLOAT: left\" title=\"gavin-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/gavin-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/9-6-sugarland2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"9-6-sugarland2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/9-6-sugarland2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0It\u2019s finally here! The announcement of the 2008 L.A. County Fair End of Summer Concert Series, presented by Toyota. We\u2019ve added a new moniker to part of the lineup \u2013 Adrenaline Nights, which will feature an expanded extreme sports series. Great entertainment for a great price. Check our Web site for full details. So, without&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,11,14],"tags":[55,222,329,332,863],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-summer-concert-series","category-entertainment","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","tag-adrenaline-nights","tag-concerts","tag-end-of-summer-concert-series","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}