{"id":76744,"date":"2017-05-17T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=76744"},"modified":"2017-08-02T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T23:58:25","slug":"cole-swindell-cameo-added-to-av-fair-concert-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/05\/17\/cole-swindell-cameo-added-to-av-fair-concert-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole Swindell, Cameo added to AV Fair concert series"},"content":{"rendered":"

LANCASTER – Country music and R&B\/Funk concerts have been added to the A.V. Fair\/Palmdale Auto Mall Concert Series for the 79th annual Antelope Valley Fair & Alfalfa Festival, officials announced Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Themed \u201cCele-grape-tion!”<\/em>, the Fair will take place Aug. 18-27 at the AV Fairgrounds, located at 2551 West Avenue H in Lancaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cameo<\/strong> and special guest The S.O.S Band<\/strong> will open the Fair on Aug. 18.<\/span><\/p>\n

Country music star Cole Swindell\u00a0<\/strong>with special guests\u00a0Williams & Ree,\u00a0<\/strong>the self proclaimed “Indian and the White Guy” music and comedy team, will perform on Aug. 21. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets for Cameo\/The S.O.S. Band and Cole Swindell\/ Williams & Ree will go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 1, online at www.avfair.com<\/a>. Customers purchasing tickets online can choose their own seats and print their tickets at home. <\/span><\/p>\n

Prices range from $20 for standing room only to $80 for \u201cGold Circle\u201d seating.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grandstand seating is free with the purchase of general admission tickets to the Fair. Grandstand seating is available on a first come, first seated basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

More on the performers<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Cameo<\/strong><\/em> is a 70s funk band who made music history with hits like Grammy nominated \u201cWord Up\u201d<\/em>, \u201cShake Your Pants<\/em>\u201d, and \u201cFlirt\u201d<\/em>. \u00a0They\u2019ve sold close to 10 million albums and have been an influence to artists today like Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, and Will Smith. Cameo today includes members Larry Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins, Charlie Singleton, and Aaron Mills. Other hits from the band include \u201cKeep It Hot\u201d<\/em>, \u201cHeaven Only Knows\u201d<\/em>, and \u201cAttack Me with Your Love.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The S.O.S. Band<\/strong><\/em> is an R&B group from the 70s and 80s. Their first hit \u201cTake Your Time (Do It Right),\u201d<\/em> went platinum and was number one on the R&B Billboard charts for five weeks in the spring of 1980. From there, the hits kept coming with songs like, \u201cHigh Hopes,\u201d \u201cJust Be Good to Me,\u201d \u201cTell Me If You Still Care,\u201d \u201cJust the Way You Like It,\u201d<\/em> and \u201cThe Finest.\u201d<\/em> The band continued to make music up until the 90s, appearing on comedian Sinbad\u2019s HBO concert specials and Rhino\u2019s various artists set United We Funk.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cole Swindell<\/strong><\/em> is a platinum-selling recording artist who has been featured on Billboard\u2019s Top New Country Artists and nominated for the 2016 CMA New Artist of the Year Award. His hits include \u201cHope You Get Lonely Tonight\u201d,<\/em> \u201cMiddle of a Memory\u201d,<\/em> and \u201cChillin\u2019 It”.<\/em> Swindell was awarded the CMA \u201cTriple Play Award\u201d for his three No.1 songs — \u201cAin\u2019t Worth The Whiskey\u201d, \u201cLet Me See Ya Girl\u201d<\/em>, and \u201cYou Should Be Here\u201d<\/em>. Swindell was also recognized as NSAI Songwriter\/Artist of the Year, ACM New Artist of the Year, and Music Row\u2019s Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year. <\/span><\/p>\n

Williams and Ree<\/strong><\/em>, aka The Indian and the White Guy, are a music and comedy team out of the Dakotas. The message they bring is one of love and harmony, with an underlying note of deceit and debauchery. Their overall theme is ” We Are All The Same”.<\/span><\/p>\n

For information on all A.V. Fair & Alfalfa Festival events, visit avfair.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Information via news release from the Antelope Valley Fair Association.]<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n

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LANCASTER – Country music and R&B\/Funk concerts have been added to the A.V. Fair\/Palmdale Auto Mall Concert Series for the 79th annual Antelope Valley Fair & Alfalfa Festival, officials announced Wednesday. Themed \u201cCele-grape-tion!”, the Fair will take place Aug. 18-27 at the AV Fairgrounds, located at 2551 West Avenue H in Lancaster. Cameo and special […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}