RRVF: Dan & Shay
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West Fargo, ND – Red River Valley Fair and Pepper Entertainment are excited to announce a new partnership; Pepper is now the exclusive talent buyer in part of their multi-year agreement. This coincides with the initial, 2023 major grandstand headline announcement.
The First Concert
Country crossover superstars, Dan + Shay, are coming back to the Red River Valley Fair on Friday, July 7th to kick off the 10 Best Days of Summer at the All Finish Concrete Grandstand. Tickets start as low as $35.00 and go on-sale 10:00am Friday, November 4th at www.redrivervalleyfair.com.
Tickets are Reserved Grandstand Seating for $35 - $75; GA Pit for $95 plus applicable fees and includes your gate admission to the Fair for July 7th!
VIP Grand Champion Experience
A brand-new addition this year is the Grand Champion Experience! A limited number of these VIP tickets will be available for $299. Grand Champion Experience includes early entry, reserved seating near the stage, private and climate-controlled restroom, private cash bar, catered food, exclusive access to the parking lot closest to the Grandstand and Red River Valley Fair merchandise items!
The New Partnership
With securing a Top 30 spot in Pollstar’s Top 100 Promoters list (2021), Pepper has set out to scale its talent buying division and is excited about its new venture with Red River Valley Fair.
President and CEO, Jered Johnson, remarks, “Pepper Entertainment looks forward to being part of Red River Valley Fair’s growth and the vibrant community of West Fargo, ND. We strive to build innovative partnerships and with Cody and his team being located near our central headquarters in Sioux Falls, we’re very excited about the synergy and opportunities together.”
Red River Valley Fair in West Fargo, North Dakota has been providing grandstand entertainment for generations looks forward to continuing to bring first-class entertainment to the region.
“We are excited to partner with Pepper Entertainment to help bring the Red River Valley Fair to the next level. We are spending about $750,000 backstage to accommodate 20,000 people and bigger and better acts on the stage. The improvement of the Ag Education Center is at the forefront of our mission and our Grandstand entertainment will help us get there. Partnering with Pepper Entertainment gives us the ability to bring high caliber acts that RRVF has not seen before to bring high quality entertainment to the community.” stated Cody Cashman, CEO of Red River Valley Fair Association.
Bringing 10 days of entertainment to fair patrons with a growing budget is something the fair is very proud of. Pepper will continually bring a wide variety of artists to suit all fair patron’s interests.
About Dan + Shay
Country superstars Dan + Shay are currently climbing the country radio charts with their latest single “You” “You” made its TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, also performing the song at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards where they also took home their third Top Country Duo/Group award. “You” is one of the 12 imaginatively crafted songs featured on their Platinum-certified fourth studio album, Good Things, alongside Platinum hits “I Should Probably Go To Bed” and “Glad You Exist,” which recently became the duo’s sixth consecutive No.1 and ninth career No.1, and the 5x Multi-Platinum global smash “10,000 Hours” with Justin Bieber.
In 2021, the duo notched their third consecutive GRAMMY award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance making them the first artist to do so 3x consecutively since the category’s inception. They took home the win in 2020 for the 6x Multi-Platinum No. 1 “Speechless” and in 2019 for their 7x multi-Platinum global smash “Tequila,” which has nearly 1.5 billion global streams, making it one of the Top 15 most streamed country songs of all time.
In 2019, “10,000 Hours” cemented Dan + Shay’s place in history as the first country duo or group to ever debut inside the Billboard Hot 100 Top 5. With more than two billion global streams to date, the global chart-topper spent 21 weeks at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (6th longest run-in chart history) and made history as the fastest country song to reach one million U.S. track equivalents in 2019, having earned the biggest first-week streaming total in country music history.
In the nine years since they formed, Dan + Shay have amassed nearly 10 billion streams globally, accumulated 46 total RIAA Platinum and Gold certifications in the U.S. alone and achieved nine No. 1 singles at country radio.
About Pepper Entertainment
Established in July of 2006, Pepper (PE) centrally located in Sioux Falls, SD is one of the fastest scaling, independent promoting firms in the United States. PE’s broad scope of services include Live Promotions, National Touring, Fairs, Festivals, Corporate & Private Event Talent Buying, Club & Performing Art Center Programming, Media & Creative Marketing Services. In 2021, PE ranked 27th of Top 100 Worldwide Promoters according to Pollstar Magazine and was nominated in 2020 as Promoter of The Year by The Academy of Country Music Awards. Pepper holds offices in Sioux Falls, SD, Minneapolis, MN and Boise, ID.
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