Officials for the 19th annual, state-sponsored Georgia National Fair announced this week via a news release they had confirmed their first concert members. Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan are both slated to perform at the fair Oct. 4. Tickets go on sale July 12 – on the internet only. Additional fair concerts will be announced later, the release reads.
Below are some particulars on each artist:
JASON ALDEAN
Macon native Jason Aldean doesn’t have to think long when asked about his top game-changing moment in 2006.
“We were playing a little sold-out club in Portland, Oregon, just an acoustic show, when we went into `Hicktown’ and the place just went crazy. That was the first time I got the feeling that we had a hit,” says Aldean.
A year later the whole career thing looked better than ever. Aldean broke through a crowded country field to capture the 2007 ACM’s Top New Male Vocalist and earned a gold album just 12 weeks after his debut’s release. Why has Jason been able to connect with so many people so fast? He calls his music “aggressive country.” It’s no surprise his radio success is a desire to commune with his crowd and make a party happen wherever he and his band go.
And, he knows his fans. He sees them most every night on a stage somewhere, and more often now he is being recognized in the streets and in restaurants.
LUKE BRYAN
Listen to Leesburg native Luke Bryan talk, and the natural twang in his voice tells you he’s from as deep into the rural south as a young man can be. Listen to him sing and the true-as-dirt details tell you he writes about who he is and what he knows.
He’s a straight-up, down-home country boy and his music makes that as clear as a sunny day on his family’s peanut farm. Bryan says sometimes even his friends in Nashville laugh at how country he is. After graduation and supported by his family, he moved to Nashville in 2001. Within two months, he had signed a publishing deal. This young man knows what a country audience likes and he gives it to them.
