Country music star Jason Aldean played to a sold-out crowd at the Missouri State Fair back on this date in 2011. Attendance set a record for the time of 51,612 people, according to a fair history website.
Photo credit: Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. Entrance to the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri. United States Sedalia Pettis County Missouri, 2021. -03-27. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021756180/.
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