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BIG country music sensation, Little Big Town, with their four-part vocal harmonies and singalong-friendly hits — and multi-award nominees and winners — grace the Corona Grandstand Stage at the 2024 Toyota Summer Concert Series at the San Diego County Fair. Alabama-based Country vocal group, known best for their hits,“Pontoon,” “Boondocks,” “Day Drinking,” and “Girl Crush,” began their nearly 30-year career back when singers Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman sang together at Samford University. Joined later by Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook, they have crafted their signature sound both as a group and in collaborations with other popular country groups/singers. Sharing the lead vocal duties, Little Big Town never missed a touring opportunity, first supporting Keith Urban and the likes of Carrie Underwood starting in 2006, and most recently headlining their fifth show, The Nightfall Tour in 2020. They also recently co-headlined The 50th Anniversary Tour with the Eagles in 2022. The group, with all original members still writing and singing their pop country hits, has been nominated for — and won — People’s Choice Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM), American Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards (CMA), CMT Artists of the Year, CMT Music Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, and GRAMMY Awards. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2024/little-big-town Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

A big Fair welcome to 50s, 60s and 70s music legend, Smokey Robinson as he croons his way onto the Corona Grandstand Stage as part of the San Diego County Fair's Toyota Summer Concert Series. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and DOUBLE Hollywood Walk of Fame member, Robinson started his career as The Miracles front man and rose up through the music industry ranks to the Hall of Famer he is today. Multi-talented Smokey Robinson is an R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer and former Motown record executive who started his illustrious career dating back to the mid-50s. As the founder and frontman for the group The Miracles, becoming Smokey Robinson & The Miracles in 1965, Robinson was the chief songwriter and producer of their 22 albums and smash top ten hits such as, "You've Really Got a Hold on Me,” "Mickey's Monkey,” "I Second That Emotion,” "Baby Baby Don't Cry" and the group's only number-one hit during their Robinson years, "The Tears of a Clown.” In 1972 he focused his full attention to helping run Motown Records, retiring in 1988. In early 2023 he wrote, recorded and released his first album in almost a decade, called Gasms. Robinson’s vocal mastery is known and loved by many across nearly four generations. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2024/smokey-robinson Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

Singer/songwriter Pancho Barraza became involved in Mexican traditional music after moving to Mazatlán and joining Banda San Sebastian and Banda Camino. He became los Recoditos' leading singer in 1991, playing along with brothers Miguel, Víctor, and Silvano Sarabia, Poncho Lizarraga, and Enrique Valdez. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2024/pancho-barraza Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

According to Jay Leno, “You can’t stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.” Join three famous funny men for Kings of Late Night: Jay Leno, Craig Ferguson, Arsenio Hall for a night of cutting-edge comedy, laughs and satire on the Corona Grandstand Stage as part of the San Diego County Fair's Toyota Summer Concert Series. Jay Leno Best known for his late-night TV show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, which dominated the ratings for two decades from 1992 - 2009. Leno is not only a comedy specialist, but also a children’s book author, corporate speaker, TV and movie voice-over artist and philanthropist. Known as, “the hardest-working man in show business,” he also now produces his series Jay Leno’s Garage on YouTube with over 3.58 million subscribers. Craig Ferguson Multiple GRAMMY nominated, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, producer, director, and comedian has amassed a huge following of his diverse career that includes film, TV and the stage. After hosting Late Late Show with Craig Fergusonon CBS TV network for 10 years, from 2005 - 2014, Ferguson now hosts an iHeartMedia podcast, Joy, where he and his guests from the worlds of entertainment, science, government, and more, discuss the ‘modern state of JOY.’ Arsenio Hall With his characteristic personality and quick-witted humor, Arsenio Hall became a groundbreaking cultural phenomenon with one of the first late-night shows hosted by an African American. His Emmy Award-winning show, The Arsenio Hall Show,” made its debut in 1989, but even before that, Hall played there role of Semmi in the hit comedy, “Coming to America,” in 1988, and reprised in “Coming 2 America,” in 2021. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2024/kings-of-late-night Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

YELLOWSTONE fans and lovers of great southern country and rock will enjoy Whiskey Myers. After their 2018 Yellowstone performances catapulted them into the limelight, the band's three albums moved into the Top 10 iTunes country charts, and their most recent album at the time, "Mud," reached No. 1 on the charts, with their song "Stone" reaching No. 9 in all genres. Come enjoy the rock and country sounds of Whiskey Myers on the Corona Grandstand Stage as part of the San Diego County Fair's Toyota Summer Concert Series. Likely best known for their inclusion in the first season of the American neo-western, YELLOWSTONE, in 2018, Whiskey Myers was not only a part of the soundtrack, but the band also performed as a band in a bar in several of the episodes. The east Palestine,Texas-based rock and country group have refined their roots rock sound by morphing their inspiration taken from the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings and Nirvana to name just a few. Made up of original members, Cody Cannon, John Jeffers, Cody Tate and Jeff Hogg, with Tony Kent and Jamey Gleaves joining in 2016 and 2017 respectively, the band continues to write original music and tour. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2024/whiskey-myers Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

GRAMMY-winning rapper and cornerstone of the Hip Hop movement, Ludacris joins fairgoers at The 2024 Toyota Summer Concert Series, Corona Grandstand Stage, at the San Diego County Fair. Spitting raps at the age of nine, and briefly working as a DJ in his youth — rapper, and now actor, Ludacris has released nine albums including the soundtrack for the animated Netflix series, KARMA’S WORLD. Ludacris created the series, named after one of his own daughters. With dozens of film and TV roles to his credit, Ludacris has been highly successful at joining his rapping and acting talents as well as commercially by as being featured in PUMA advertising campaigns and on country singer CarrieUnderwood's single "The Champion," which peaked at 47 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the opening song for Super Bowl LII, and the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ludacris received three nominations and one win at the 2018 CMT Music Awards for that collaboration, and other nominations and wins from the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Screen Actors Guild, and the MTV Movie and MTV Video Music Awards. Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

Texas-born regional Mexican singer, Pepe Aguilar, is credited with being one of the pioneers in bringing charro and mariachi culture to modern international audiences. As part of the Fair’s Domingueando en la Feria, which will feature Latin-themed entertainment, the concert at this year’s San Diego County Fair's Toyota Summer Concert Series will be performed in Spanish. Aguilar has sold over 13 million albums worldwide, which has earned him four GRAMMYS, five Latin Grammy Awards, nineteen Lo Nuestro Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Taking a page out of his own history, "La Dinastía Aguilar" (The Aguilar Dynasty), Pepe Aguilar started singing at a young age alongside his well known parents, singer/songwriter and actor, Antonio Aguilar and singer/actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, Flor Silvestre. Just like his own parents, Aguilar has paved the way for his own children, Leonardo Aguilar and Ángela Aguilar, in the Latin music genre. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2024/pepe-aguilar Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

Multi-platinum, GRAMMY, MTV Music Video, Soul Train Music, and Billboard Music Award-winning R & B artists — and the best-selling girl group of all time — TLC, will groove onto the Corona Grandstand Stage as part of the San Diego County Fair's Toyota Summer Concert Series. The Atlanta-based trio, contemporary R & B and hip-hop/new jack swing duo, who originally punched their ticket to success in the early 1990s, was made up of original members, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas. As the Billboard magazine’s number 12 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, the group has amassed nine top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including four number-one singles: “Creep," “Waterfalls," "No Scrubs,” and “Unpretty.” Having sold over 65 million records worldwide, TLC also recorded four multi-platinum albums, including "CrazySexyCool" in 1994, which received a diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Following Lopes's death in 2002, instead of replacing her, the remaining members chose to continue as a duo. Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

Six-time winning and reigning Academy of Country Music (ACM) Vocal Group of the Year, five-time and current Country Music Association (CMA) Vocal Group of the Year, and People’s Choice Country Music Artist of the Year nominee, Old Dominion. The Nashville-based modern American country band will bring a mélange of rock, pop, country and soul to the Corona Grandstand Stage as part of the San Diego County Fair's Toyota Summer Concert Series. With the group members longtime writing history together, lead singer Matthew Ramsey, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Trevor Rosen, guitarist and vocalist Brad Tursi, bassist Geoff Sprung and drummer Whit Sellers, have taken their singer/songwriter roots into the present as they continue to write, perform and get recognized for hit after hit with their own band, Old Dominion. Their first song, "Dirt on a Road,” dating back to 2012, and their single, "Shut Me Up,” gained them the attention that landed them their first arena tour experience in late 2015. Their latest release this past October, an 18-song album entitled, Memory Lane, includes recent hits, “Memory Lane,” and "I Should Have Married You.” Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair

Synonymous with salt water and the ocean, Kolohe Kai’s Island sounds are the center of opening night at the Fair. Headlining the first concert of the 2024 San Diego County Fair's Toyota Summer Concert Series is one of the most popular bands of the Pacific Islander reggae scene, Kolohe Kai. Their unique sound infuses Hawaiian ukulele, roots reggae, and hint of R & B and pop, elevating their already distinctive reggae sound to new and popular heights. The band's name: Kolohe means “rascal," which founding member, Roman De Peralta’s family called him as a child. Kai means "ocean" or “saltwater,” right in tune with the band’s love of surfing and the Hawaiian ocean waters. In 2019, Kolohe Kai won Island Music Awards Reggae Album of the Year with Summer to Winter, which also reached number one on Billboard's Reggae Album chart. Visit: https://www.sdfair.com/events/2024/kolohe-kai Full concert schedule: https://www.sdfair.com/p/what-to-do/grandstand Doors Open @ 6 p.m. Includes Complimentary Same-Day Fair AdmissionALL SALES FINAL | NO REFUNDS or NO EXCHANGES sdfair.com Facebook: facebook.com/sdfair Instagram: Instagram.com/sandiegocountyfair