Entertainment: Free Stages

Sit back and relax on a bench and enjoy your favorite ND State Fair Food, while your children burn off some energy and use their imagination in the ND State Fair Giant Sandbox located next to the Kids Kingdom.

Enjoy ND’s history at the Fur Traders Rendezvous. Demonstrations include trade house display, a tipi display, fiddly playing, as well as historic drawing and painting, you’re sure to learn a load of new trades! This stage is sponsored by First Western Bank & Trust.

If you want great old-fashioned fun and family entertainment, the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show is where you want to be! The show is filled with action packed competition, and plenty of laughter. The Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show features only quality Lumberjack competitors known throughout the world.

With five, 1-hour shows per day, Nick offers Professional Chainsaw Carving Demonstrations. This includes: speed-carving demonstrations, creating wood sculptures including; birds, mammals, fish, abstract, local/state specific animals, signs, wall hanging slabs, structural/architectural type of pieces, like farm equipment, barns, and cabins. He will be located in the West Park!

Come watch America’s favorite stunt dogs as they spin, soar, and show off their tricks! You’ll be mesmerized as these dogs compete in challenges like frisbee routines, racing and high-jumping.

The ND Game & Fish Outdoor Skills Park is open daily 1:00pm-7:00pm! Visitors to the park will be treated to an array of exhibits and useful information about ND outdoors, including hands-on instructions in fishing, hunters safety, archery and trapping. The area is shaded by cottonwoord and box elder trees providing the perfect shaded area on a sunny day! Most activities in the park are designed to give you the hands on experience you’re looking for. Stop by the Skills Park to fish, learn some archery, or just grab some cool shade.

The Nerveless Nocks are descendants of the Swiss Circus Family Nock and are among the most respected aerial stunt artists in the world today! Since 1954, the Nerveless Nocks have been thrilling audiences across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and world-wide.

The show features all the standards that you have come to know and love. The fire dive, 80-foot-high dive, clown diving and our world-famous man out of the audience comedy act. In addition, the set and team are decorated to follow a patriotic theme. An all-American show with all American good looks!

A long-time favorite at the North Dakota State Fair, Daryl’s racing pigs are back by popular demand. When the gates open, cheer on your favorite little pig as it races its competitors around the track! This is one show you won’t want to miss! Show times at 12:30 pm, 3:00 pm, and 5:30 pm all nine days of Fair.

There is no one else like the Doo-Wah Riders. For 40 years they have been riding their own patch of the musical range throughout the west. They possess the rare combination of many years of experience and youthful energy, fired by a love for what they do. The Doo-Wahs are country, with a unique, original sound. They define their sound as “high energy country with a Cajun twist”. Their tight musicianship and powerful arrangements of classic, contemporary, and original songs have made them favorites everywhere they go. They will be located on Stage 2!

Enjoy local talent at its best as artists from across the region take the stage to showcase their music and various talents everyday from 11:30 pm – 6:30 pm.

If you are interested in performing at this stage, please fill out this application.

Huckleberry Road is a hard – hitting country rock band based out of Reno, Nevada.  Fronted by two multitalented industry veterans, Robert Clark and Anthony Vairetta, Huckleberry Road has been rocking the west coast stages for over 17 years.  Backed by Dillon Secklin on drums, your ears won’t believe what they are hearing!  From Prince’s “Purple Rain” to today’s Top 40 Country including Chris Stapleton’s “Fire Away” plus everything in between including original songs you won’t want to miss!