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2023 Event schedule:
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Join us for our 100th Year Fair Celebration Dinner & Dance at the Fairgrounds ~ Big Top Tent ~ Wednesday August 9th, 7pm!
Enjoy a delicious 1920's era home cooked meal by Captain Ron's and music by the Brother's Payne.
Tickets are $15 each and can be purchased at the Clerk's office in Driggs or Fair Board office
Sponsored in full by Waterloo
Music Concert
Presented by Teton County Idaho Fairgrounds in partnership with Teton County and Downtown Driggs Association in celebration of 100 Year Fair and our western heritage. Sister Karee and the Other Brothers, a beloved local act that considers Teton Valley home, is elated to play here again after a five-year hiatus. The six-piece band’s broad musical range covers funk to classic rock and is sure to make you boogie.
Wagons and Tales Living History
TETON VALLEY HERITAGE DAY, Saturday August 5th
12:30PM – 8:00PM
The community is invited to celebrate the rich heritage of Teton Valley at the Lewis-Parish Park (the open space north of the Museum). An 1800’s style tent encampment by Wagons and Tale Living History group will feature interactive historical activities of the time-period. Mountain men, Native Americans, Early Homesteaders, and more will be represented. The evening program will be filled with music, contests, games, storytelling, and dancing. Your family and friends will not want to miss this extraordinary celebration of our valley’s heritage. The event is free of charge.
4-H Horse Shows
Saturday Aug 5th
The 4H Horse Show exhibits multiple ages, classes, and disciplines of riding and horsemanship. Competitors show off their grooming skills, poise, and knowledge in showmanship followed by bareback, trail classes, western riding, english riding and hunter equitation over fences.
The 4H Working Ranch Horse show exhibits categories that relate to real life cattle ranching skills including: dummy roping, how to track a cow, sorting and penning cattle and roping heads and heels.
Open class horse trail course
Sunday Aug 6th @ 10am NW of the outdoor arena
Come experience a trail course! Lead or ride your horse through obstacles that you might find on a mountain trail. In Hand and/or Mounted option, course will be posted at the event. $10.00 entry fee (unlimited).
All proceeds go to Teton Valley Back County Horsemen. Register at the event. NW of the outdoor arena.
Pig Wranglin’
Monday Aug 7th @ 7pm
Family fun for all ages! The event takes place in a round pen filled with wet mud. A pig is turned loose in the pen with a barrel set in the middle. The object is for a 4-person team to catch the pig and then place the pig in the barrel, caboose first in less than a minute. Rules of the event prohibit anything or action which may cause harm to the pig. The barrel is partially filled with bedding padding the piggy’s landing in the barrel. Accepting 40 teams. Entry Form/Waiver/Payment must be in the Fair Board office or at the Teton County Clerk’s office 150 Courthouse Drive #208 by July 28th 2023.
Team captains will pick up wrist bands and distribute to team members Monday 8/7 5:30-6:30pm at the Big Top Tent.
Thanks to our sponsors: Teton Valley Health & Horizon Landscapes
$1500 added to winners’ pot courtesy of Horizon Landscapes
Arnold Farms is among the oldest family farms in Teton Valley. Its name echoes throughout the seed potato industry as one of integrity from the ground up. Nestled deep in the backroads of the quaint community of Felt, Idaho, Arnold Farms’ Generation III seed potatoes are known for their high quality and disease-resistant varieties including: Russet Burbank, Ranger Russet, Clearwater Russet, Teton Russet, and Russet Norkotahs.
Please RSVP: will@tetonwater.org and Tetonscd@silverstar.com
Open Class
Share your talents and show off your creations!
Drop off: Tuesday Aug 8th Noon - 7pm
Judging: Wednesday Aug 9th 8am - 12pm
Exhibit hall will open to the public at 12pm on Wednesday
COWBOY MOUNTED Shooters
In the spirit of the soldier and cowboy, one organization, the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association (CMSA) was created in the mid-1990s for equestrians and cowboy action shooters to participate in a competitive shooting sport while riding horseback. The Mounted Shooters of America was formed in 2000 and may belong to either or both associations.
Mounted shooting requires competitors to use single-action revolvers, lever-action rifles chambered in pistol calibers, and side-by-side double-barreled shotguns. Single action semi-automatic firearms, also known as self-cocking firearms, are also allowed in special military cavalry and Wild Bunch events (named after the 1969 Western movie of the same name that used more modern firearms). In general, firearm designs and the modern replicas used in the sport are of the pre-1900 American West and Military eras.
All events, whether for Old West living history or shooting competitions, are directed by a certified mounted range officer who must be knowledgeable of firearm safety, event organization, and horsemanship. The direction of a mounted range officer helps to ensure the safety of the competitor, spectators and volunteers at all events. Mounted shooting uses black powder theatrical blanks with no bullet. Companies such as Western Stage Props, Buffalo Blanks, Circle E Blanks, Lonesome Pine, and Whitehouse Blanks manufacture certified ammunition for competition. A slow-burning powder component of the blank can break a balloon target at a range of up to 20 feet (6 m)
Classes: Age 11 and under (may choose to shoot if qualified). Age 12–16 Junior boy or girl. Age 16 plus Men's, Ladies or Senior Men's, Senior Ladies. Age 55 plus Men's, Ladies or Senior Men's, Senior Ladies.
Teton Soil Conservation District Farm Tour
Thursday Aug 10th
11am Big top tent
Join us for the Farm Tour to celebrate 100 years of Agriculture in Teton Valley!
The celebration will start with a demonstration of pioneering ag equipment and horse teams led by AJ Woolstenhulme. After the demonstration, enjoy a lunch with a $5 lunch voucher and learn about centennial farms through discussion with local generational producers. After lunch, load up on the bus and head to Cache for Cows! Todd Tibbits will demonstrate how specially designed corrals and bud boxes help reduce stress when moving cattle. FTR and HFF Farms and Fish manager, Daniel Wilcox will talk about soil health benefits through managed grazing and projects happening on the ground in the Teton watershed. The last stop on this tour will be Arnold Farms in Felt, where we will see the evolution of a century of agriculture demonstrated through cutting edge farm equipment and processing in the largest seed potato production area in Idaho.
photo courtesy of Trey Danger
Horse Pull Free event!
Thursday Aug 10th @ 6pm SPonsored in full by teton ridge ranch
Horse pulling goes back to the time when farming and ranching chores were accomplished with teams or horses led by a driver called a teamster. The teamsters often challenged each other over who had the toughest and best team. These challenges migrated from farms and fields to the arena to determine the strongest team. There are three weight classes determined by the team's combined weight. Each team hooks on to a stone boat which is loaded with concrete weights. They pull between two ropes that are 14 feet apart and get two tries to pull the boat 27 and a half feet. Those that pull the distance will come back to pull again with weights of 500 - 1000 lbs added each time. The team that pulls the most weight the farthest wins the weight class. It is a true test of athleticism, conditioning and skilled driving by the teamster.
Fair Rodeo
Friday Aug 11th @ 8pm
outdoor arena
Regional cowboys and cowgirls will compete in classic rodeo events like bull riding, team roping, saddle bronc riding, barrel racing and pole bending. Bring the little ones for the calf scramble and mutton bustin! The whole family can get up-close-and-personal with the rodeo action.
$5 ages 6-12, $10 ages 13+ ages 5 and under FREE
farm truck & tractor show
Sat Aug 12th noon-2pm
Love your truck, got a favorite tractor? Well bring ‘em on down to the pavilion field at 11:30pm for our third annual showoff! Viewer’s choice picks each winner!
Figure 8 & Lawn Mower Races
Open to anyone in the region with an old car and gumption to race!
Additional $1000 added to the winners pot!