DOVER ‒ Country music and professional wrestling will be on tap as the Tuscarawas County Fair marks a milestone ‒ its 175th exhibition, Sept. 15-21.
Country due Maddie & Tae will be performing at the grandstand at 8 p.m. Sep. 20. Maddie Font and Taylor “Tae” Kerr first came to fame in 2013 with their song “Girl in a Country Song.” They are also known for songs such as “Die From A Broken Heart,” “Friends Don’t,” “Sad Girl Summer” and “Heart They Didn’t Break.”
Country music stars Maddie & Tae will headline the entertainment lineup at the 2025 Tuscarawas County Fair, when they perform at 8 p.m. Sep. 20. Track seats are $60, premium grandstand seats are $40 and standard grandstand seats are $30.
They won Music Video of the Year in 2015 from the Country Music Association for their video to go with that song and won Duo/Group Video of the Year in 2022 from CMT for “Woman You Got.”
Track seats are $60, premium grandstand seats are $40 and standard grandstand seats are $30.
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It has been around five years since the Tuscarawas County Fair Board booked a country music act. “That was a board decision,” said Josh Rennicker, acting fair board president. “This is the 175th fair, so this was a group decision to do this. It had been talked about for the last two years. We wanted to do something special, so that’s how it came about.”
Coming to the fair at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 is Championship Pro Wrestling.
The main event will feature 10-time World Tag Team Champions the Good Brothers (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson), who will face NWA World League Champion Carson Drake and his partner, Kerry Morton.
Tickets are $20 for ringside and $12 for general admission.
Demolition derby for the 175th county fair will take place on Sept. 20.
Tickets for both shows can be purchased through the Performing Arts Center at Kent State University Tuscarawas by calling 330-308-6400 or by going online at www.TuscCountyFairGrounds.com.
Old favorites will also be returning ‒ motocross on Sept. 15, the Band-O-Rama on Sept. 16, Truck & Treat on Sept. 18, the truck and tractor pull on Sept. 19 and the demolition derby on Sept. 20.
Ethan Jones, center, won the hog showmanship title for his age division at the 2024 Tuscarawas County Fair. This year nearly 1,000 youth will participate in junior fair. One of the biggest areas of growth is in poultry, according to Christine Kendle, 4-H educator.
Junior fair
Nearly 1,000 kids from throughout Tuscarawas County will be participating in this year’s junior fair.
One of the biggest areas of growth is in poultry, according to Christine Kendle, 4-H educator with the Tuscarawas County Cooperative Extension Service. The program has outgrown the poultry pavilion, so a tent has been set up next to it to serve as an arena.
To speed things up, the show has been divided. The Junior Market Poultry Show will be held on Sept. 15 and the Junior Fair Fancy Poultry Show and the Junior Fair Poultry Showmanship will be on Sept. 17.
“The thing that I really love about our market poultry project is that it’s this even playing field because the small animal committee provides all of the market birds. So, everybody starts out essentially with the same genetics, the same lot of birds on the same day. They have a two-hour window to pick up their birds,” she said.
Kendle said there has also been an explosion of hog and beef projects this year.
There will be a total of 1,500 junior fair projects this year, including 320 market hogs, 145 broilers, 105 market beef projects, 89 dairy cows, 56 breeding rabbits and 49 market goats.
Fairground improvements
One of the biggest changes that visitors to the Tuscarawas County Fair will notice this year is that 16 trees on the grounds have been cut down.
“The trees were starting to fall down. They could cause a lot of property damage. We worried about safety, somebody getting hurt. We didn’t want that,” Rennicker said.
For every tree that was cut down, another one will be planted, he said. A nursery, which wanted to remain anonymous, has donated new trees for the fairgrounds. They will be maple trees.
16 trees were cut down this summer on the fairgrounds, as they were rotting and a safety hazard. New maple trees that will be planted after this year’s fair were donated by a nursery.
No decision has been made yet on where they will be planted. “The fair board is working on that. We’ve got to plan strategically where to place them so they don’t interfere with future infrastructure improvements, so that everybody can enjoy them,” Rennicker said.
The new trees will be planted sometime in October or November, after the fair has concluded.
Other improvements include new water and electric at the campgrounds near the horse barns. Tuscarawas County commissioners helped fund the project, he said.
The cost was $36,000 for the electric and $24,000 for the water.
There are also new pens in the hog barn, the women’s restroom at the dairy barn has been renovated, and the commercial building has a new roof, Rennicker said.
Admission to the fair is $5, and free parking is available off the grounds.
Reach Jon at 330-364-8415 or at [email protected].
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