Shiprock fair: Buy your concert tickets direct
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Frank Smith expects Eddy Raven to pack the Chieftain Pit on October 3. He figures the over-40 crowd attending the Northern Navajo Fair will remember Raven’s mid-80s hits like “I Got Mexico,” and the younger generation will enjoy meeting his Cajun-spiced country sound.
However, if you love the Navajo Nation’s oldest continuing fair and want to support it, Smith has a plea: Buy your tickets soon, and buy them directly from the fair. “Everyone waits till the last minute to buy their tickets, and we get nervous and contract with someone to sell them,” Smith explained. “It doesn’t come cheap. Basha’s wants twenty-five hundred dollars.”
If the fair can sell a good portion of the tickets in the next two weeks, said Smith, who is in charge of entertainment, he can avoid the sticky-fingered middlemen and the fair will have a better chance of breaking even. “Then we can continue to bring you nationally known performers like Eddy Raven,” he said. Tickets — priced at $20 for general seating and $30 for reserved — are on sale at the fair office and booths at local flea markets. They will go up $5 at the door.
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