Meghan Trainor announced as Minnesota State Fair 2025 Grandstand headliner
Meghan Trainor has been announced as a 2025 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Series headliner.
The singer will take the stage on Friday, Aug. 22, and tickets range from $56 to $125.75. Tickets officially go on sale on Friday, starting at 10 a.m., via the Minnesota State Fair's website.
It will be Trainor's first State Fair appearance, having initially been scheduled to perform in 2015 before she canceled the show and the rest of her tour that year due to a vocal cord hemorrhage.
The last time Trainor performed in the state was in 2014, when she was one of the acts for KDWB's Jingle Ball in December at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, according to Concert Archives.
The "All About That Bass" pop star has garnered a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, achieved eight multi-platinum singles and two multi-platinum albums, sold out three world tours and received multiple industry awards and nominations since she dropped that diamond-certified single in 2014.
Trainor has also starred as a judge on "The Voice UK" and FOX's "The Four: Battle for Stardom."
She released her fourth studio album, "Takin' It Back," in 2022 and re-released her album "Title" to celebrate its 10-year anniversary on March 28, featuring two new songs, "All About That Bass (Remastered)" and "Better When I'm Dancin' (j.bird Timeless Tour Version)."
Trainor is the eighth headlining Grandstand Series show to be announced thus far, with the others listed as follows for 2025:
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