Photo courtesy: Lumberjills.com
EAST FALMOUTH – The 171st edition of the Barnstable County Fair kicks off Monday afternoon in East Falmouth with musical acts, farm animals – and lots of fair food.
Cape Cod Fairgrounds Manager Wendy Brown said they have a week of activities lined up.
“The weather is looking great. We open up with some big shows and end with some big shows, and everything in-between,” she said.
Shows this year include Motocross Trials, country music with Craig Wayne Boyd and Jason Michael Carroll, and log-cutting with a group of woman known as the Lumberjills.
The country theme will continue with The Willis Clan on July 26. The family of 14 musicians recently released their second album, Heaven, and is the subject of the TLC network reality show, “The Willis Family.”
Brown said the fair was first incorporated in 1855 on Route 6A in Barnstable Village, before moving to Marstons Mills. The event was eventually moved to the fairgrounds off Route 151 in East Falmouth.
“The fair has changed through the years with the additions of the midway and things like that, but the one thing that stays constant is the agricultural piece,” said Brown.
The fair is inaugurating two new daily acts, each performing shows daily. The Lumberjills are an all-female team of lumber athletes who perform cross-cut sawing, log rolling, chair saw carving and axe throwing.
The What About Dinosaurs act will include life-like, walking and roaring dinosaurs that will roam throughout the fairgrounds.
The fair also includes all the traditional agricultural displays at the Barnstable County Master Gardeners Demonstration Gardens and the usual assortment of farm and barn animals.
“We continue year after year to have everything the kids want to see, the chickens, the ducks, the geese, the pigs, the sheep and everything in between,” said Brown.
And don’t forget the fair food.
“We have a new vendor this year who is going to have frozen bananas dipped in chocolate and stuffed with peanut butter,” Brown said.
Rock legends Three Dog Night, known for “Joy to the World” and other hit songs, will perform on July 25.
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