CANFIELD — The Canfield Fair will feature musical entertainment of stages big and small.
Two concerts are planned as part of the Grandstand attractions for 2023.
Country music, which has been a popular genre with the fair, will be represented with Koe Wetzel on Sept. 3. Wetzel, however, is more of an outlaw country artist who incorporates grunge and punk influences in his songs, several of which have garnered airplay on mainstream rock radio.
He has had three gold-certified singles — “February 28, 2016,” “something to talk about” and “drunk driving” — and tallied more than 1.3 billion streams so far in his career.
His latest single is “That’s Why We Fight,” a duet with Ella Langley, and he was in the news earlier this month when he allowed Raising Cane’s CEO Todd Graves to tattoo a chicken tender on his thigh.
Playing the grandstand on the final night of the fair will be the vocal group Boyz II Men.
It is one of the top-selling R&B acts of all time with hits that include “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” “On Bended Knee,” “Water Runs Dry,” “One Sweet Day” and “Motownphilly.”
Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman have won four Grammy Awards, nine American Music Awards, nine Soul Train Awards, three Billboard Awards and have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
When the lineup was announced JAC Live Vice President Ken Bigley said acts from the ’90s have been drawing well nationally, and more and more fairs are turning to R&B and hip hop acts for their main concerts.
Fairgoers will need to buy a ticket for the grandstand attractions, but free performances will be offered in the Western Reserve Village the final four days.
The schedule for 2023 will include Jim Popp and Dennis Rice on Sept. 1; Justified and Echo Valley on Sept. 2; Rachell Joy, the Canfield Community Band and Leanne Binder on Sept. 3; and JD Eicher on Sept. 4.
