For the Reporter
Three-time Grammy Award-winning group Train and special guest MAGIC! perform at the Washington State Fair on Sept. 25, part of the fair’s Columbia Bank Concert Series.
Tickets for the concert in Puyallup go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 12.
Tickets will start selling by phone (888) 559-FAIR (3247) daily, 7 a.m.-8 p.m., or on the Fair website. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the fair’s box office at 9th Ave Southwest and Meridian Street on Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Tickets are $75 (Golden Circle), $65 and $50, and include fair gate admission. Online and phone purchases are subject to standard processing fees. Tickets purchased on site will be charged a $2 per ticket service fee.
Train
Train started playing as a band in San Francisco back in 1994 at the Mad Dog In The Fog, and quickly learned that the chemistry between Patrick Monahan (vocals), Jimmy Stafford (guitar) and Scott Underwood (drums) worked well. While they had a big following in their market, record labels were not beating down their door for them to sign. After recording their own album, Columbia Records reconsidered and signed the group.
Their debut album, Train was released in 1998 with the hit “Meet Virginia.” Three years later Drops of Jupiter was released, and the band’s popularity surged. The lead single in that album, “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” was an international hit, winning two Grammy Awards in 2002. The album went on to be certified double platinum, and is their best selling album to date.
Platinum-certified album My Private Nation followed in 2003, and the hit single “Calling All Angels” capture high air play.
Following their fourth album, the band went on a three-year hiatus, with Patrick Monahan pursuing a solo career.
Train reunited and released the single “Hey, Soul Sister” in 2009. It became an international hit, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, topping the charts in Australia and the Netherlands and becoming a top 10 hit in multiple other countries.
Save Me, San Francisco, the band’s fifth studio album, was released in October 2009. For the album, the band worked with several producers, including Martin Terefe and Gregg Wattenberg. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200, earning a gold certification from the RIAA.The album’s second and third singles, “If It’s Love” and “Marry Me”, became top 40 hits on theBillboard Hot 100.
In April 2012, Train released their sixth studio album, California 37; it peaked at number four on the Billboard 200.The album’s lead single “Drive By” peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also became a top ten hit in multiple other countries. In Sept. 2014 the band released the album, Bulletproof Picasso, and in 2015 released Christmas in Tahoe.
For more information, visit www.SaveMeSanFrancisco.com.
MAGIC!
MAGIC!, a reggae fusion band, hails from Toronto, Canada, and includes songwriter and record producer Nasri, Mark Pellizzer, Alex Tanas and Ben Spivak. They are most well known for their debut single, “Rude,” which peaked at #1 in seven countries.
Their second single released from the album, “Don’t Kill the Magic” hit the airwaves on April 4, 2014, peaking at No. 22 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. Their debut album, Don’t Kill the Magic, was released on June 30, 2014. The album peaked to No. 5 on the Canadian Albums Chart and No. 6 on the Billboard 200.
In September of 2014 it was announced that MAGIC! would be an opening act for Maroon 5 on their 2015 world tour in North America and Europe. In April 2015, the single “No Way No” was released, peaking at #23 in Canada.
Visit www.OurNameIsMagic.com for more information.
State Fair
The Washington State Fair is one of the biggest fairs in the world, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest. It started in 1900 in Puyallup, and welcomes more than one million guests to the single largest attended event in the state.
Star-studded entertainment, the PRCA Rodeo, rides, exhibits, food, flowers and animals are mainstays of the 21-day event that kicks off the Friday of Labor Day weekend.
For more info about the Sept. 2-25 fair (closed Tuesdays), visit www.thefair.com.
DATE, PERFORMANCE, TIME, PRICES (including fair gate)
Sept. 4 – Tim McGraw (country), 7:30 p.m., $350 VIP package, $250 VIP package, $95, $85
Sept. 9 – Rodeo playoffs, Friday matinee, 1 p.m., $18, $5*
Sept. 9 – Rodeo playoffs with Thompson Square concert (country), 6:30 p.m., $40 Golden Saddle, $30; standing in dirt,concert, $35
Sept. 10 – Rodeo playoffs, Saturday matinee, 1 p.m., $30 Golden Saddle; $20
Sept. 10 – Rodeo playoffs with Chris Janson concert (country), 6:30 p.m., $40 Golden Saddle, $30; standing in dirt concert, $35
Sept. 11 – Rodeo, Puyallup finals, 1 p.m., $35 Golden Saddle; $25
Sept. 12 – for King & Country and Matt Maher (Christian), 7:30 p.m., $46 Golden Circle, $36, $26
Sept. 22 – Dierks Bentley (country), 7:30 p.m., $100 Golden Circle, $80, $65, pre-show dinner $38
Sept. 25 – Train, with special guest MAGIC! (pop), 7:30 p.m., $75 Golden Circle, $65, $50
* Friday 1 p.m. rodeo does not include fair gate admission. Gates are open free from 10 a.m.-noon.
