Today's Alaska State Fair Schedule

Borealis Theatre

3 p.m. -- Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion Summer Love Tour 2011*

Grandstand

Noon -- Side-by-side races*

Grandstand Lawn

1, 3 and 5 p.m. -- Pirates for Hire, entertainment troupe

Milking Parlor In Farm Exhibits

3:30 and 4:15 p.m. -- Goat milking demo

5 and 6 p.m. -- Cow milking demo

Hoskins Exhibits

11:30 a.m. -- Paint a ladybug rock

12:30 p.m. -- Duct tape hair pins

1:30 p.m. -- Fireweed honey

2:30 p.m. -- Banana pancakes

3:30 p.m. -- Chocolate nut clusters

Irwin Exhibits

Noon-10 p.m. -- Quilt show, on the hour

Noon-10 p.m. -- Woodworking, quilting, fiber arts, sewing, hand/needlework demos

Around The Grounds

Steve Trash, Rockin' Eco Magician

1, 3, 5 and 7:30 p.m. -- King BMX stunt show, Purple Plaza near ejection seat

Fables of the West, cowboy comedy

Woodlot

1, 3 and 6 p.m. -- Scheer's Lumberjack show

Sluicebox

1:30 p.m. -- All Relative

3 p.m. -- Honky Tonk Allstars

4:30 p.m. -- The Defrosters

6:30 p.m. -- Smoking Guns Tour featuring Jason Thomas and Travis Powell from Nashville.

8:30 p.m. -- Ettinger

Colony Stage

11 a.m. and 1 p.m. -- Discover Dance, Dynamite dancers

11:30 a.m. -- Alaska Moving Arts

Noon and 1:30 p.m. -- Linda Sahara Middle Eastern Dancers

12:30 p.m. -- Dancers workshop

2, 4 and 7 p.m. -- Shanghai Chinese Acrobats

3 p.m. -- Alaska Moving Arts

3:30 p.m. -- Diamonds in the Rough, fabulous Indiana fiddler

5 and 6:30 p.m. -- Swingset Hooligans

5:30 p.m. -- Alaska Sound Celebration

8 p.m. -- Palmer Jazz Band

9 p.m. -- Just Playin Jazz

Bluebonnet Stage

12:30, 3 and 6:30 p.m. -- Jeff Martin comedy magic

1 p.m. -- TGB (The Girl Band)

1:30 p.m. -- Slap Dash

2 p.m. -- Three Fish in a Tree

2:30 p.m. -- Hopper Family Band

3:30 p.m. -- Kerr Family Band

4:30 p.m. -- Eric and Sean Braendel

5:30 p.m. -- Marty and Matt Raney

Pioneer Plaza

2, 4 and 6 p.m. -- Cirque Magnifique

Wineck Barn

Noon and 5 p.m. -- "Alaska Far Away" documentary film of the New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony

1:30 p.m. -- Garden Tours guided by the fair's head gardener

2 p.m. -- "Where the River Matanuska Flows," colonist interviews

Craftsman House

Noon-6 p.m. -- Alaska Native art, crafts and demonstrations

Noon-6 p.m. -- Alaska Native storytelling, featuring Jack Dalton

Noon-6 p.m. -- Informational Exhibits: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Southcentral Foundation and Cook Inlet Housing Authority

France Equestrian Center

2 p.m. -- Alaska State Fair rodeo*

Kid Zone

10 a.m.-8 p.m. -- Children's garden and fun exhibits

Farm Exhibits

Noon -- Swine, sheep and goat Open Show

Noon-8 p.m. -- GCI's Petting Zoo

Noon-8 p.m. -- Fowl Weather Friends Barnyard

10 a.m.-10 p.m. -- Crops and flowers exhibits

Corral

11 a.m.and 12:30 p.m. -- Okamoto's School of Karate

11:30 a.m. -- Stars Dance and Drill

11:45 a.m. -- Service High cheer

Noon and 1:30 p.m. -- Underground Dance Co.

12:15 and 2:15 p.m. -- Palmer Dance Intensity All-Stars

1 p.m. -- Stars Dance and Drill

1:15 p.m. -- Palmer High cheer

1:45 p.m. -- Wasilla High cheer

2 p.m. -- Arctic All-Stars

2:30 and 4:15 p.m. -- Alaska Pride Cheer and Tumbling

2:45 and 3:45 p.m. -- Colony Middle School cheer

3 p.m. -- Tae Kwon Do USA

3:30 p.m. -- Eagle River Rage

4 p.m. -- Arctic All-Stars

4:30 p.m. -- Tae Kwon Do USA

5 and 7 p.m. -- Denali Gymnastics and Denali All-Star Cheer

6 p.m. -- Arctic Gymnastics

Borealis Plaza Tent

10 a.m.-5 p.m. -- Greatland Chili Fiesta

6 p.m. -- Original Synners Wild West Show presented by AdvancePath Academics

9 p.m. -- Original Synners Stunt Show Spectacular**

Jolly Roger Pub

2 p.m. -- Eric and Sean Braendel

3 p.m. -- The Smith Family Band

5 p.m. -- Jubilee

Don Sheldon Events Center

10 a.m.-9 p.m. -- Outback in Alaska, wild birds and animals from Australia

Noon, 2, 4 and 6 p.m. -- Birds down under

Woodlot Stage

2 p.m. -- Moose Calling Contest

4 p.m. -- Parent-Child Look-Alike Contest

Gold Raven's People Tent

Daily -- Alaska Native art, crafts and demonstrations

Noon-6 p.m. -- Finnskimo, skin sewer, blogger

Noon-6 p.m. -- Full Circle Haida Tlingit Creations with artist Susan Canipe

* = Ticketed event