New England's Largest Fair Features Over Two Weeks of Food and Entertainment, Sept. 12-28

New England's Largest Fair Features Over Two Weeks of Food and Entertainment, Sept. 12-28

Concerts Include Fergie, Sugarland, Natasha Bedingfield, Leann Rimes, American Idol Jordin Sparks, and Hey, Hey There's Even a Monkee

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2008 edition of The Big E, New England's six-state fair, Sept. 12-28, brings a festival of entertainment, rides, educational displays, slice 'em and dice 'em gadgets, and thousands of cream puffs to West Springfield, Mass. Over 1.2 million people visited last year, making this the eighth largest fair in the U.S.

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Within a jam-packed 17 days are a free circus, crafts, animals, a sea lion show, the Avenue of the States, midway rides, 19th-century Storrowton Village, and the biggest horses you've ever seen. It's the best of the old and new that fairgoers have come to enjoy since the Fair began in 1917.

Big E highlights include:

-- Military Appreciation Day, Sept. 12

-- Headline acts on the Comcast Arena stage from British pop star Natasha Bedingfield (Sept. 12), to Country duo Sugarland (Sept. 27) and Fergie (Sept. 28).

-- Free shows include former Monkee Micky Dolenz (Sept. 12-14), Jordin Sparks (Sept. 20), and LeAnn Rimes (Sept. 26),

-- The Big E Super Circus, the Fair's own free, one-ring, European-style circus, sponsored by Coca-Cola

-- Cultura 2008 celebration of Hispanic heritage, Sept. 14

-- See a private collection of rare circus posters in the New England Center

-- Visit the Sea Lion Splash and have your picture taken, sponsored by NewAlliance Bank

-- Daily Mardi Gras Parades, sponsored by Foxwoods Resort Casino

-- See The Budweiser Clydesdales in the daily parade and in a special exhibit behind the Better Living Center. Celebrate their 75th anniversary!

-- Over 50,000 famous Big E cream puffs will be served -- a fair favorite since 2002.

Tickets are adults $12 weekdays and $15 weekends; children ages 6-12 are $8 weekdays and $10 weekends. For more information log onto www.TheBigE.com. Telephone: 413 737 2443. Save gas and travel by bus -- visit www.TheBigE.com/bus-it.

Media contact:
Catherine Pappas
Communications Manager
413 205 5039; cpappas@thebige.com

Jeff Blumenfeld, Jamie Gribbon
Xpresso PR
203 655 1620; jeff@xpressopr.com

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CONTACT: Catherine Pappas, Communications Manager of The Big E,
+1-413-205-5039, cpappas@thebige.com; or Jeff Blumenfeld or Jamie Gribbon,
both of Xpresso PR, +1-203-655-1620, jeff@xpressopr.com, for The Big E

Web Site: http://www.thebige.com/
http://www.thebige.com/bus-it

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