🐝Evansville Buzz | July 6–12: Gibson County Fair (Princeton, IN)

🎡 Sparks Will Fly (Literally, in the Demo Derby)

The 169th Gibson County Fair is back and it’s giving “YEEHAW meets Mad Max” energy. This is your Super Bowl, your Met Gala, your deep-fried dreamscape of monster trucks, rodeos, 4-H glamour, and folks launching themselves off dirt ramps for glory. This isn’t just a fair. This is a lifestyle with pageants, pigs, and pedal tractor pulls with enough testosterone to jumpstart a combine.

This week, the grandstands become The Tri-State’s hottest club. The dress code? Boots, cutoff jorts, and a pocket full of ride tickets. Grab your cousin, your grandma, your ex, and go full send into 7 days of chaos.

Fair season’s here, baby. Let the sawdust fly. Let’s go.

🔥 Main Event Highlights

MONSTER TRUCKS… WITH A PIT PARTY

📅 Monday, July 7 @ 7PM (Pit Party 4–6PM)
🎟️ Included with admission
✍️ They’re big. They’re loud. They jump stuff. Bring the kids to meet the monster trucks before the real carnage begins. Then brace yourself for metal mayhem.
🍕 Bonus Buzz: Catch Jimmy Detalente and Kevin Minnis on the Free Stage at 7PM if your ears survive the engine roars.

🧨 2FOR1 Tuesday: Smash, Crash & Save

📅 Tuesday, July 8 @ 7PM
🎟️ 2-for-1 gate admission or bring a friend with your season pass
✍️ The best deal of the fair + the most destruction = 2FOR1 Tuesday. Scrapper Racing. MWFA Demo Derby. Youth Stock Mower Smash-A-Palooza. All refereed by Iron Outlaw Promotions. No fluff, just chaos.
🍕 Bonus Buzz: 2-for-1 ride armbands after 5PM. Nearly every food vendor is slingin’ BOGO eats. Funnel cakes for everybody.

🐎 Giddy Up, Rodeo Lovers

📅 Wednesday, July 9 @ 7PM
🎟️ Included with admission
✍️ Buckin’ broncs, wild bulls, and cowboys with enough yeehaw to restart a tractor battery. The DD Pro Rodeo is the real deal watch from the grandstands or yell from the top row.
🍕 Bonus Buzz: Catch Hometown Gold (aka the Loveless Brothers) on the Free Stage while the livestock limbers up.

🏍️ Full-Throttle Dirt: Motocross Finals

📅 Thursday, July 10 @ 7:30PM
🎟️ Free with admission
✍️ High-flying bikes. Dirt in your soda. The grandstands become a dirt stadium as local daredevils go full throttle over tabletop jumps and into your adrenaline-addicted hearts.
🍕 Bonus Buzz: Grab a lemonade slushie and catch Still Company performing live at 7PM.

🎤 Colt Ford Concert & Beer Garden Shenanigans

📅 Friday, July 11 @ 8PM
🎟️ Free with admission
✍️ Colt Ford brings the country-rap thunder to the grandstands. It’s a little honky, a little tonky, and a whole lot of boot-stompin’ sing-along action.
🍕 Bonus Buzz: Pregame in the Beer Garden with the Blackstone Band at 6PM. You will line dance next to a man wearing jorts.

💥 Demo Derby Finale: Five Classes of Carnage

📍 Grandstands
📅 Saturday, July 12 @ 7PM
🎟️ Free with admission
✍️ It’s demolition derby night and the grandstands are your Thunderdome. Five vehicle classes. Sparks. Screaming. Glory. Bonus round: kids crash mini cars in the Power Wheels Demo at 6:45PM.
🍕 Bonus Buzz: The Bear Hollow Chainsaw Carving Auction is your shot to go home with a giant wooden raccoon. Starbound Band takes the Free Stage at 7PM.

🎶 Your Weeklong Playlist IRL

🗓 Monday, July 7
🎤 Free Stage: Jimmy Detalente & Kevin Minnis – 7PM

🗓 Tuesday, July 8
🎤 Free Stage: Scott Mason & Rickie Byrne – 7PM

🗓 Wednesday, July 9
🎤 Free Stage: Loveless Brothers – 7PM

🗓 Thursday, July 10
🎤 Free Stage: Still Company – 7PM

🗓 Friday, July 11
🎤 Colt Ford – 8PM
🍻 Beer Garden: Blackstone Band – 6PM
🎶 Opener: Tone Deaf Troubadours (with Ben Dahlquist) – 7PM

🗓 Saturday, July 12
🎤 Free Stage: Starbound Band – 7PM
🪓 Chainsaw Carving Auction – 6PM

🐝 Final Buzz

💥 Fairytales & Funnel Cakes

This week is a choose-your-own-adventure book written entirely in diesel smoke and powdered sugar. Whether you're lawnmower-racing into glory, making questionable decisions in the Beer Garden, or crying at the sight of a 4-H goat named "Snickerdoodle," the Gibson County Fair is the most chaotic, beautiful mess of the summer.

So grab your ride band, hold your nose during the Swine Show, and scream into the July sky like it’s your last rodeo. Because this? This is homegrown madness, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Buckle up, buttercup. It’s about to get feral in the fairgrounds.

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• Mid-demo derby selfie while sparks fly behind you

• Full glam rodeo look next to a very confused goat

• Slow-motion video of your buddy losing at the adult pedal tractor pull

Stay local. Stay weird. Stay buzzin’.
— The Buzz Team ✌️

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