Be A Part Of The Fair!

Be a part of the tradition this year and showcase your work at the Contra Costa County Fair! Bake your best cookies, take your best picture, create the best scrapbook page ever, and nurture your prized plant - then enter it into one of the Fair's contests and competitions.

Paper forms are due by May 3rd - less than two weeks away. Special office hours on May 3rd, 8am-8pm. Online entry is available through May 8th. Go to www.contracostafair.com/fair to download entry forms and an Exhibitor Handbook.

Make sure to save the date as summer kicks off in June 2011 with the Contra Costa County Fair, June 2nd - 5th.

Also check out our Facebook and Twitter pages for more up to date information!

Earn a free ticket to the Fair!

All volunteers who work four or more hours at the Contra Costa County Fair receive free admission to the Fair.

We need volunteers – lots of them – on the following days:

May 18th – Exhibit judging day
Need lots of volunteers for clerking.
Put stickers on tags, bring items to judges, misc. paperwork.

May 19th – Decorating Home Arts Building
Help display items in building.

May 20th – Education receiving day
Help teachers with their entries, put tags on items.

May 25th – Education judging day
Need lots of volunteers for clerking.
Put stickers on tags, bring items to judges, misc. paperwork.

May 26th – Education building decorating day
Help display items in building.

These are the big days, but there are lots of other days available to volunteer. Another bonus to volunteering is you get a sneak peak at all of the exhibits. If you are interested in volunteering, please call Karen Howe, Exhibit Superintendent at (925)757-4400 or download an application. Contact us today to volunteer!

2011 Concerts at the Contra Costa County Fair

The 2011 Concert Line-up has been announced! Get ready for four days of Concert Entertainment! Who's on the top of your list to see?

Whiskey Dawn Thursday 5:30 and 7:30

Whiskey Dawn is California’s hottest country band.

The Lost Boys Friday Times TBD

The Lost Boys rock band is made up of 5 teenage young men, hailing from Lake County, CA.

SATURDAY TRIPLE TRIBUTE

Swift Country Tribute To Taylor Swift Saturday 5:30

Swift Country, is excited to bring this energetic brand of fun to our Fair!

Paradise City Tribute To Guns N' Roses Saturday 7:30

Paradise City delivers what all the old school Guns n Roses fans want.

Pyromania Tribute To Def Leppard Saturday 9:30

Pyromania’ll make yiou believe you are really watching a Def Leppard show, from the first note to the very last!

Hispanic Day Entertainment on the Fiesta Stage Sunday Times: TBA

Hispanic Day performers and times to be announced shortly.

Come join the fun as The Tradition Continues - celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Contra Costa County Fair! Check out all the fun and happenings with our upcoming daily schedule including live music on our Main Stage, entertaining shows, fantastic fair food, traditional exhibits, youth livestock, our always FREE Kids Zone, and much, much more! Check back regularly for updates to the Fair schedule as well as Fair savings!

Discount Advance Ticket Sales

There so much to do at the Fair that you don’t want to miss. See the World of Music ‘hands-on’ museum, concerts, Kids Town America, livestock shows, Fables of the West, Flo the clown and so much more all for the price of Fair admission. Buy Your Tickets Early The Contra Costa Fair is a great value for family entertainment. By taking advantage of some of our special discounts, it can be even better! Advance Ticket Sales Save even more money on our already low admission and ride wristband prices: Adults (13 & over) - $7 Seniors (62 & better) - $5 Kids (ages 6-12) - $5 Ride Wristbands - $15 "What A Deal" Wednesday! Every Wednesday starting April 13th, come to the Fair office and purchase a Family Fun Pass for only $20 Family Fun pass includes (4) 1 day Fair admission tickets available for purchase on the following dates: • Wednesday, April 13th • Wednesday, April 20th • Wednesday, April 27th • Wednesday, May 4th • Wednesday, May 11th • Wednesday, May 18th • Wednesday, May 25th Available only at the Fair Office! Stop by the Fair office at 1201 West 10th Street in Antioch between 8 am – 5 pm for your ticket to fun! Find out all of the great Fair savings programs and a schedule of events at http://www.contracostafair.com/.

Meet your 2011 Fair Queen

Just as you’d expect the Fair Queen to be, Brittney Ray is poised, outgoing, and charismatic. But would you guess that she has been riding horse since before she could walk? Meet your 2011 Fair Queen Brittney Ray!

Brittney is no stranger to the Fair. She sang with her pageant friends when she was just five or six years old. She also showed livestock at the Fair for the past seven years. Her favorite Fair memory is camping out on the fairgounds with her 4-H club. What Brittney looks forward to most during her reign as Fair Queen is the week of fair itself.”I love the atmosphere and this year is going to the most special to me because I get to live every little girls dream and be the queen,” said Brittney. “I can't wait to see all the kids faces when they get to meet a ‘real queen’!”

You can meet Brittney at the Contra Costa County Fair, June 2 – 5. You can find her helping out with kid’s contests, the livestock auction, opening ceremonies and interacting with guests during the entire Fair. She will also make special appearances at community events as a spokesperson for the Fair during her yearlong reign.

We are so pleased to have Brittney as this year’s Fair Queen and look forward to her being an excellent example for youth in the county. Please make sure to come and visit her and all of us at the Contra Costa County Fair June 2 - 5 and celebrate with us as “The Tradition Continues”. For more information visit the Annual Fair section of our website at www.contracostafair.com/fair.

Be A Part Of The Fair

Be a part of the tradition this year and showcase your work at the Contra Costa County Fair! Bake your best cookies, take your best picture, create the best scrapbook page ever, and nurture your prized plant - then enter it into one of the Fair’s contests and competitions.

There is something for everyone! Special contests include You’ve Got Mail contest – decorate a mail box with a barn theme, Recycled art -- create a masterpiece using recycled items found around your home (ex. cans, nails, wire etc.), and Marshmallow creation -- create an imaginative farm animal, a cow or maybe a rooster, using marshmallows as the main structure. There are too many to mention. Check the special contests section of the online exhibitor handbook at http://www.contracostafair.com/.

There are traditional exhibits as well from preserved foods to homemade wine and from quilts to outdoor landscapes. Kids will enjoy showing off their Lego creations, short stories, paintings, photographs, scrapbook pages, jams and jellies, needlework, and so much more.

Entry Forms and fees must be received by the Administration Office
before 8:00 pm on May 3, 2011. Be green and enter online!

Make sure to save the date as summer kicks off in June 2011 with the Contra Costa
County Fair, June 2nd – 5th.

Antioch Little League wins a makeover

Antioch Little League is the winner of contest where local youth sports fields are selected to be renovated with a full makeover.

O.C. Jones & Sons, Inc. created TLC for Kids Sports (http://www.tlcforkidssports.org/), a non-profit community outreach effort aimed at improving kids’ sports fields. Through an ongoing partnership with KNBR 680/1050 AM Radio and Brent Jones (former SF 49er), they created the contest.

The league has been serving the area for over 50 years, and includes boys divisions from T-ball through Majors, girls softball divisions, and The Challenger Division. The Challenger Division is a very special free program designed for physically and mentally disabled boys and girls, ages 5–22 years old, to enjoy tee ball or coach pitched baseball. Play is adaptive and the rules are very flexible with the focus of providing kids with a positive and rewarding recreational experience.

The league has a rich history in Antioch, providing positive experiences for youth for many decades. O.C. Jones & Sons, Inc., founded in 1924, is also an organization with a long history and values similar to the Little League.

Work is already underway to transform the rundown fields into a place of great pride, and where the Challenger program can flourish. Imagine a new field where local youth can meet together to experience the benefits of belonging to a little league – sportsmanship, teamwork, confidence, fitness – to name a few.

We would be honored if you would be our guest in the Opening Day/Ribbon Cutting Ceremony of the Antioch Little League Field at the Fairgrounds in Antioch. The event is scheduled for Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 am. The dedicatory Challenger game will take place at 11am. The Challenger Invitational will be held that day, with games immediately following the opening ceremonies. Teams from all over the area will be participating.