Adkins, Chesnutt headline 2020 Tri-State Rodeo

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(Below is a video announcement from 2020 Tri-State Rodeo General Chairman Tony Johnson. Just click on video to play)

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FORT MADISON – The Tri-State Rodeo is proud to announce the Entertainment Headliners for the 73rdAnnual Tri-State Rodeo.

We first would like to take a moment to address the situation our community, our nation and the world finds itself in with COVID-19. These are uncertain times and they can be frightening. However, we cannot let this drive us apart. The Tri-State Rodeo has faith in our national, state and local agencies and more importantly we have faith in our community members. We will weather the storm together and get through anything that comes our way. We will come out on the other side together and stronger.

We urge you to support your local businesses and organizations now more than ever. These people are our colleagues, neighbors and friends and they will need our help. This community is the reason that the Tri-State Rodeo exists, and we are here to support you.

With that said, we will continue our preparations for the 2020 Tri-State Rodeo and on September 9, 10, 11 and 12 we will be here for the 73rd Annual Tri-State Rodeo and are planning to put on the largest rodeo Fort Madison has seen yet! So, for now - stay inside. Wash your hands. Enjoy your family. Rest up. Please continue to take the recommended precautions now for everyone’s safety, so we can all get together and have a great time in Fort Madison this summer! Until then, let’s look out for each other and be safe!Our entertainment lineup this year includes country music up and comer HARDY on Thursday September 9.

We are throwing it back to the 90’s on Friday with country legends Mark Chesnutt and David Lee Murphy both performing. On Saturday night country music star Trace Adkins will be on the main stage!

Each night we will have entertainment in the After-Rodeo Party Pavilion as well. Wednesday and Thursday Joe Stamm Band performs and Stumptown will be here on Friday and Saturday nights. Music on the main stage starts immediately after the rodeo ends each night.

Tickets for the Tri-State Rodeo are on sale now and available atwww.tristarerodeo.org.Ticketswill be available at the Tri-State Rodeo Box Office once reopened.About Tri-State Rodeo: In 1948 C.E. (Eddie) Richards brought the Rodeo to the Tri-State area and every year since Fort Madison is home to the best rodeo of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Great Lake Circuit.

Every year thousands of people flock to Fort Madison area starting Labor Day weekend for a week of action-packed entertainment and events. Since 2000 the Tri-State Rodeo has been named as one of the nation’s top five large outdoor rodeos and continues to rank first among rodeos in the Great Lakes Circuit and in 2001 ranked 43rd among the nation’s more than 700 sanctioned PRCA events.

No other rodeo east of Kansas City, Missouri ranked higher.The Tri-State Rodeo continues to attract the nation’s top cowboys, with competition spread over four nights the first week in September and big-name musicians headlining the Thursday - Saturday night performances.

Find out more about the rodeo and the concert by visitingwww.tristaterodeo.orgor by following them onFacebookandInstagramboth @fmtristaterodeo.

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