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The 2026 Laramie County Fair is back July 29 through August 8, bringing together the best of summer, community, tradition, and family fun at the Archer Complex in Cheyenne. This year’s theme, “Fair’s Poppin’,” sets the stage for a full fair schedule packed with livestock shows, 4-H and FFA exhibits, open class competitions, hands-on activities, fair contests, food, entertainment, and plenty of hometown memories in the making.

The fair kicks off July 29 with horse, dog, rabbit, beef, and static exhibits, then rolls into a lively week of public activities beginning August 1. Families can enjoy the Midway from August 1–7 with carnival games, an inflatable zone, glass blowing demos, balloon twisting, airbrush tattoos, magic shows, caricatures, a petting zoo, foam parties, mini-golf, a laser maze, and more.

Special highlights include the Farmers Market on August 1, Ranch Rodeo and the new Salsa Showdown on August 2, pie contests on August 3, Mutton Bustin’ on August 4, the new Cheyenne Youth Rodeo and Bubblegum Blowing Contest on August 5, Pig Wrestling on August 6, round robin shows and family activities on August 7, and the Youth Livestock Sale on August 8.

Contrasting string quartets by Kevin Lau and Beethoven highlight the emotional range of every Grand Teton Music Festival chamber music setting. Festival Orchestra brass players share the stage with their string section colleagues in a concert that features an intoxicating mix of the familiar and the new.

Program
Mozart: String Duo No. 1 in G Major
Kevin Lau: and from the heart there flows a song
Andre LaFosse: Suite Impromptu
Kevin Lau: String Quartet No. 7, “Surfacing”
Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, No. 1

Festival musicians

The 2026 Laramie County Fair is back July 29 through August 8, bringing together the best of summer, community, tradition, and family fun at the Archer Complex in Cheyenne. This year’s theme, “Fair’s Poppin’,” sets the stage for a full fair schedule packed with livestock shows, 4-H and FFA exhibits, open class competitions, hands-on activities, fair contests, food, entertainment, and plenty of hometown memories in the making.

The fair kicks off July 29 with horse, dog, rabbit, beef, and static exhibits, then rolls into a lively week of public activities beginning August 1. Families can enjoy the Midway from August 1–7 with carnival games, an inflatable zone, glass blowing demos, balloon twisting, airbrush tattoos, magic shows, caricatures, a petting zoo, foam parties, mini-golf, a laser maze, and more.

Special highlights include the Farmers Market on August 1, Ranch Rodeo and the new Salsa Showdown on August 2, pie contests on August 3, Mutton Bustin’ on August 4, the new Cheyenne Youth Rodeo and Bubblegum Blowing Contest on August 5, Pig Wrestling on August 6, round robin shows and family activities on August 7, and the Youth Livestock Sale on August 8.

What do a certain Austrian composer and his English counterpart have in common? Hollywood, of course! Both John Barry and Erich Wolfgang Korngold found their way to the big screens of America and their music blurred the lines between the concert hall and the movie theater. GTMF Concertmaster Madeline Adkins performs Korngold’s lush, film-inspired Violin Concerto before the Festival Orchestra concludes the program with Beethoven’s eternal and appropriately cinematic ode to nature, the “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6.

Program
Barry: Themes from Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves
Korngold: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Madeline Adkins, violin

Join us in the lobby at 6 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

The 2026 Laramie County Fair is back July 29 through August 8, bringing together the best of summer, community, tradition, and family fun at the Archer Complex in Cheyenne. This year’s theme, “Fair’s Poppin’,” sets the stage for a full fair schedule packed with livestock shows, 4-H and FFA exhibits, open class competitions, hands-on activities, fair contests, food, entertainment, and plenty of hometown memories in the making.

The fair kicks off July 29 with horse, dog, rabbit, beef, and static exhibits, then rolls into a lively week of public activities beginning August 1. Families can enjoy the Midway from August 1–7 with carnival games, an inflatable zone, glass blowing demos, balloon twisting, airbrush tattoos, magic shows, caricatures, a petting zoo, foam parties, mini-golf, a laser maze, and more.

Special highlights include the Farmers Market on August 1, Ranch Rodeo and the new Salsa Showdown on August 2, pie contests on August 3, Mutton Bustin’ on August 4, the new Cheyenne Youth Rodeo and Bubblegum Blowing Contest on August 5, Pig Wrestling on August 6, round robin shows and family activities on August 7, and the Youth Livestock Sale on August 8.

Please join us for the annual Laramie County Fair Youth Livestock Sale!
We will sell animals individually including beef, lambs, goats, hogs, rabbits, and poultry. Sale begins with all Champions and Reserve Champions selling first.
A complimentary buyer’s lunch will be served at noon.

Investing in Laramie County's Future:
The Laramie County Fair Livestock Program provides youth with valuable hands-on opportunities to develop responsibility, leadership, sportsmanship, and essential life skills. Through the process of raising and exhibiting livestock, participants invest significant time, effort, and resources while gaining practical knowledge in animal nutrition, health management, husbandry practices, and proper animal handling. These experiences help prepare young people for future success both within and beyond the agricultural industry.

All youth with market animals complete the University of Wyoming’s Youth Quality Assurance program, ensuring they follow proper animal care and management practices to produce a high-quality, wholesome product.

Ways to Participate:
• Attend in person
• Have purchases made on your behalf (Must contact the Fair Office before the sale)
• A Buyer’s Group
• An Add-on donation

Purchase Options:
• Live Animal: Purchase the animal as-is. Removal of the animal is the responsibility of the buyer.
• Custom Slaughter: You will choose one of the pre-arranged processors. Contact processor for cut sheets. Processing fees are the Buyer’s responsibility.
• Resale: You may resale an animal to the sale. Buyer will pay the difference between the bid and resale price.
• Donation: Please make sure to have the charity’s correct name and address. Buyer is responsible for processing fees.

Register to be a 2026 Buyer: https://laramie.fairwire.com/buyerlogon.aspx
Already registered as a buyer in 2025? You're all set! Only new buyers need to complete a registration. Register ahead of time to save time from being in line.

What do a certain Austrian composer and his English counterpart have in common? Hollywood, of course! Both John Barry and Erich Wolfgang Korngold found their way to the big screens of America and their music blurred the lines between the concert hall and the movie theater. GTMF Concertmaster Madeline Adkins performs Korngold’s lush, film-inspired Violin Concerto before the Festival Orchestra concludes the program with Beethoven’s eternal and appropriately cinematic ode to nature, the “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6.

Program
Barry: Themes from Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves
Korngold: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Madeline Adkins, violin

Join us in the lobby at 5 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

Good things. Small packages. The 2026 Benoliel Chamber Music Series comes to a close with works by two living female composers and pieces by masters of centuries past. Nothing less than the full circle of human expression is on display in this program of miniature masterpieces.

Program
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Mozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat Major
Anna Clyne: Strange Loops
Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet in C Minor

Festival musicians

The annual tradition of opera at the Grand Teton Music Festival continues with an evening of arias, duets and orchestral interludes from none other than Giacomo Puccini, featuring soprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Daniel Luis Espinal. These two world-class voices join Maestro Runnicles and the Festival Orchestra in this aural feast of melody and drama, but not before we see Italy through the eyes of Felix Mendelssohn, who visited the country in 1830 and set down his impressions in both musical notes and vibrant watercolors.

Program
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
Puccini: Scenes, Interludes, Arias

Sir Donald Runnicles, conductor
Eleni Calenos, soprano
Daniel Luis Espinal, tenor

Join us in the lobby at 6 PM for a Pre-Concert Talk, an inside look into the music led by GTMF violinist Hasse Borup. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.