Midland will wow country fans with beautiful harmonies, slick lyrics, and of course, the steel guitar at the Bank Five Nine Main Stage on Thursday, July 31, 2025.
Midland moves crowds with a rich country sound that’s rooted in tradition, sound, and style. With their intentional nod to country music reminiscent of the 70s and 80s, enjoy country jams from the band like “Drinkin’ Problem,” “Burn Out,” and “Old Fashioned Feeling.”
Formerly known as the Read Southall Band, Southall will open this country show. With hit singles like “Scared Money,” “Why,” and the latest off their fourth album, “Get Busy (Till It’s Done),” this six-piece plays with raw and loud collaborative power.
All seating for this show is reserved, and tickets range from $35 – $49. Each Main Stage ticket includes admission to the State Fair for the day of the show when purchased before entering the State Fair. Venue opens at 6:30pm for show seating.
Wisconsin State Fair is not responsible for tickets purchased from third parties. No single ticket for this concert should exceed a base ticket price of $49.
OPENING NIGHT DEAL: We’re sweetening the deal! Enjoy $5 Miller Lite and Happy Thursday Spiked Refreshers at the Main Stage to celebrate the opening night of State Fair with Midland and Southall.
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About Midland
Double GRAMMY nominees Midland have sought to reintroduce the Western plains, Laurel Canyon-cum-Bakersfield, and Lone Star juke joints to country music since coming together at a friend’s wedding over common influences and the need for a return to this sort of post-Urban Cowboy Country.
For lead singer/guitarist Mark Wystrach, bassist/vocalist Cameron Duddy and lead guitarist/vocalist Jess Carson, the Double-Platinum hit “Drinkin’ Problem” set the stage for their critically acclaimed On The Rocks and No. 1 Billboard Top Country Album debut Let It Roll to unite classic country fans, hipsters, and media including Entertainment Weekly, GQ, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Variety, Rolling Stone Country, and NPR.
Based in Dripping Springs, Texas, the trio of songwriters, who developed their sound at Tornillo, Texas’ storied Sonic Ranch, have been building a following that has sold-out the Houston Rodeo and Livestock Show, packed a multiple-night stand at Ft. Worth’s iconic Billy Bob’s, and re-opened North Hollywood’s legendary Palomino Club for one night only.
Bringing listeners a resurgence of their thick harmonies, sad melodies, tart lyrics, and steel guitar with their 2022 album, The Last Resort: Greetings From, the retro-Nuevo trio has grown from bar band to an in-demand headliner who has even put together their own cruise that set sail in April 2024.
Learn more about Midland on their website: MidlandOfficial.com.
About Southall
Formerly known as the Read Southall Band, Southall now manifests the true band that singer Read Southall first envisioned when he released his debut, Six String Sorrow, in 2015. That was a mostly acoustic record, but their most recent release, self-titled Southall, roars with raw and loud collaborative power. Reid Barber, the group’s resident metalhead, hammers his drums. Bassist Jeremee Knipp provides a brooding low end. Keys player Braxton Curliss adds both tasteful accents and off-the- rails barroom piano. Guitarists John Tyler Perry and Ryan Wellman wring wild sounds from their instruments. All of it is tied together by Read Southall’s scrappy, yearning voice.
While Southall has released three other studio albums, including their 2017 breakout Borrowed Time, the band’s namesake record regards the records as just the building blocks of Southall’s future.
With hit singles like “Scared Money,” “Out Alive,” “By Surprise,” “Why,” “Stickin’ n Movin’,” and the latest “Get Busy (Till It’s Done),” they’ve established themselves as a band-you-need-to-playlist on the streaming services. Southall now have more than 133 million streams on Spotify and more than 101 million on Apple Music, with nearly 1 million monthly listeners across all platforms.
Learn more about Southall on their website: Southall.com.
