Organizers of Denver’s first urban agricultural and homesteading festival announced today that Barry Fey and his company Feyline International will produce a Saturday night concert at the event.
The first Denver Country Fair is planned for July 28-31 at the National Western Complex.
Fey is a three-time winner of Billboard’s “Promoter of the Year” and the man former President Bill Clinton dubbed “a national treasure,” according to Denver County Fair organizers.
He stepped away from concert promotion in Denver after his 1997 retirement. He said since his retirement, he has typically turned down offers to participate in similar events.
“But after I realized the significance of a Denver County Fair, I started getting excited about it. I think it has a kind of a magic to it,” Fey said in a prepared statement. “So I agreed to work on it.”
Urban country fairs are gaining popularity nationwide thanks to the Green Revolution and the recession- and pop culture-driven rise in do-it-yourself entrepreneurship.
Calls have already gone out for entries to the Denver Country Fair’s myriad blue-ribbon competition categories, which include cooking, farming/gardening, holistic arts, animal care, fine arts, fashion, crafts and green practices. The event will devote nearly 300,000 square feet to vendors, and will include an outdoor carnival and an old school Freak Show.
For more information, including how to enter, go to .
