Announced on Bay Country – National Recording Artists Josh Turner and David Lee Murphy will be at this year’s Fair on Saturday, August 10th! VIP tables with full service, unlimited food and drinks, will be available. Grandstand seating and hillside seating, too! Updates – follow the Great Pocomoke Fair on Facebook!
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The Great Pocomoke Fair August 8th – 11th, 2024
| Thursday August 8th 9a-2p Vendor, Carnival Rides, Indoor Exhibit, Livestock Load-in 1p-4p Indoor Exhibit Judging 5pm FAIR OPENS 5p-10p Carnival Open 5pm Little Miss Pageant 5:30 Rap Battle Walk-ins & Round Start 6pm Junior Miss Pageant 7pm – All Truck Dirt Drags Presented by Ironshore Repair & Performance 10pm Fair Closed | Friday August 9th 8am BBQ Competition Load-in opens 12PM FAIR OPENS 12p-8p Mural Painting 12p M+F Creations Chainsaw Carving 2p-10p Carnival Open 2pm Hog Show 4pm Dairy Cow Fitting & Showing 4p-6:30p Cakes & Pies Received 5pm Beef Cow Show 5pm Fire Department Cut up a Car Competition 5:30p Karate and Judo demonstration 5:30 Chincoteague Pony Drill Team Demonstration 6pm All About Dance performance 7pm Bullride Mania Rodeo 10pm Fair Closed |
| Saturday August 10th 8am Horse & Pony Show Registration Opens 10a – Horse & Pony Show Starts 10am Dairy Goat Show 10am Cornhole Sign-ups Open 11am Cornhole Tournament 12p -10p Carnival Open 12p M+F Creations Chainsaw Carving 12p – Meat Goat Show 12p-4p Chinese Auction 1pm Pygmy/Mini Goat Show 1pm BBQ Competition Judging 2pm Sheep Fitting & Showing 2pm This ‘n That Bingo 2-8pm Mural Painting 2p-4p Nanticoke Indian Dance Troupe Performance 4p Tug-O-War 4:45p Cake & Pie Auction 5pm Livestock Auction 5:30p Chainsaw Carving Auction 6p Seating Opens for Country Concert 7p Josh Turner Concert with David Lee Murphy 10p Fair Closed M+F Creations Chainsaw Carving | Sunday August 11th 8a Praise at the Fair 10a Carnival Opens 12p Barnyard Olympics 2p Stoney Roberts Demolition Derby 6p Fair Ends |
About Josh Turner
With timeless songs like “Long Black Train” and “Why Don’t We Just Dance,” Josh Turner’s global reach has surpassed 5.8B global streams, 6.5M album sales and almost 12M track sales world-wide. Turner’s five No. 1 singles include “Your Man,” of which the official music video surpassed 223 million views. Turner’s album Long Black Train celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023 and was certified Platinum by the RIAA with nearly 1.5M album sales, 1.3M track downloads and almost 315M life-to-date streams. The lead single of the same name was also certified Platinum making up over 1M track downloads and almost 245M global streams. Turner released his first Greatest Hits album in September 2023, which features 11 of his biggest songs from seven of his studio albums. In June 2021, Turner released Your Man Deluxe Edition, celebrating 15 years of Turner’s iconic double Platinum-selling album, as well as the mini documentary “Josh TurnerYour Man15thAnniversary” (Mini Doc).The now certified triple-Platinum selling “Would You Go With Me,” featured on Your Man Deluxe Edition, experienced a viral surge across TikTok leading to a jump in streaming which landed the classic country tune on Spotify’s US Viral 50 along with Spotify Viral charts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. A native of South Carolina, Turner has been nominated for three GMA Dove Awards and won his first GMA Dove Award in 2021 for “I Saw The Light” featuring Sonya Isaacs, off his I Serve a Savior album. Turner has been nominated for two GRAMMY Awards, five CMA Awards, two ACM Awards, one CMT Award, seven ACA Awards and has received six Inspirational Country Music Awards. Turner released his first Christmas album, King Size Manger, in 2021, and it was released on vinyl the following year. His first television special, “King Size Manger,” debuted on UPtv in 2022 and is also available on DVD. To support music and arts education, he created The Josh Turner Scholarship Fund for the Arts to help students pursue their studies in these fields. Turner and his wife Jennifer, whom he met as a student at Nashville’s Belmont University, have four sons. For more information, please visit www.joshturner.com.
