It’s nearly getting close to almost State Fair time! And since it’s a slow fake news week, Ungrammared presents its lineup of the stars coming to Raleigh and rockin’ out in the Dort Narena!
State Fair: 16-26 October, NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh (just outside Beltline)
Haulin’ Oats (Radiohead cover band): Jim Graham Building, 16 October, 8pm-3am
Lost In The Trees: cancelled due to there not being a big enough space to hold all 1,258 band members
Bruno Mars: strapped to the Vortex; we’ll see what happens, 17 October, 3pm
INXS minus 1: Red Cross Building across from place where you give fake names for paging, 18 October, 4:15pm
50 Cent: Long, oddly Spanish-style building (between GOP and Libertarian booths), 19 October, 9pm
Stevie Nicks: Fairground Petting Zoo (goat section), 20 October, 7pm
The Connells: Dort Narena, 16-26 October, 8am-5pm (unless George has a showing)
U2‘s The We’re Still Musically and Politically Relevant Tour: dirt racetrack where they have less-popular ethnic festivals and occasional gang stabbings, 20 October, 3pm downloads of show available for presale or free afterwards
Scotty McCreery: Dort Narena, 21 October, 8pm – tix totally sold out to every hot sorority girl at State and dudes from Garner
Pharrell: Dort Narena, 24 October, 8pm (disclaimer: singing Happy over and over for two hours)
Weird Al Yankovic: stage next to the “World’s Tiniest Woman” who’s actually a very nice dwarf sitting in front of large-scale objects, 25-26 October, four shows – inexplicably totally sold out