Summer will be here before we know it, bringing Iowa's biggest celebration: the Iowa State Fair and Grandstand concerts.

The Iowa State Fair gets fans excited for its Fair Sweet Fair this summer from Aug. 7-17 with two new concert announcements to usher in some of the bigger acts taking the Grandstand stage.

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa State Fair announced two more concerts coming to the 2025 state fair Grandstand. County music singer-songwriter Parker McCollum will perform at 8 p.m. on Aug. 8 with ...

Def Leppard is set to take the Grandstand Stage in Des Moines on Thursday, August 14th. Tickets for this concert will go on ...

Robert “Marion” Lucas, the former manager and CEO of the Iowa State Fair, died on Jan. 9 at the Miller County Care and Rehabilitation Center in Tuscumbia, Missouri. He was 82.

The Iowa State Fair is a traditional stomping ground for politicians. In 2015, photographer Landon Nordeman captured presidential candidates as they mingled with fairgoers, gave speeches and ...

The caucuses are not until January, but the summer Iowa State Fair is a “rite of passage for presidential candidates”, said John McCormick at The Wall Street Journal. It can be a “humbling ...