Ongoing Nashville relationships helped get Scotty McCreery booked for Grant County Fair
By Logan Bagett on Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories
JOHN DAY – Platinum-selling and #1 country music hitmaker Scotty McCreery will be adding John Day, Oregon onto his tour schedule August 14th when he’ll be featured as the headlining entertainment act at the 2026 Grant County Fair. Fairgrounds Manager Mindy Winegar was recently on KJDY’s Coffee Time and said while McCreery is a big name to book, her relationships with firms in Nashville have made it easier to get bigger-named artists to Grant County:
“This year was maybe one of my easier years, but I have great buyers in Nashville. Now that I’ve had them for about four years, they start looking for me now…They’ll start looking for somebody [to headline] for 2027 now.”
Tickets for the August 14th show go on sale beginning April 1st. Look for the ticket sales link on Elkhorn Media Group and Grant County Fairgrounds online outlets.
Listen to that full podcast with Fairgrounds Manager Mindy Winegar below:
Read Scotty McCreery’s official artist biography below:
Scotty McCreery has been a household name for nearly half his life, ever since making history in 2011 as both the first country artist and the youngest male artist of any genre to debut his first studio album, the Platinum-certified Clear as Day, at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. The 31-year-old has sold more than 4 million albums and achieved 6 No.1 hits: the recent “Cab in a Solo,” the RIAA Platinum-certified “Damn Strait,” the RIAA Gold certified “You Time,” the RIAA Gold certified “In Between,” the RIAA Platinum certified “This is It,” and the RIAA Triple Platinum certified “Five More Minutes.” His most recent album is Rise & Fall, and his current EP is Scooter & Friends, containing the smash hit “Bottle Rockets” featuring Hootie & The Blowfish.
The North Carolina native has earned one Triple Platinum, five Platinum and four Gold singles; one Platinum and two Gold albums; won the 10th season of “American Idol” in 2011 at age 17; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011; won two CMT Music Awards, the first for Breakthrough Video of the Year (“The Trouble with Girls”) in 2012, and the second for Digital-First Performance of the Year (‘It Matters to Her’ from “CMT Stages”) in 2024; and BMI Awards for writing One of the Top 50 Country Songs of the Year six times (in 2015 for ‘See You Tonight’, in 2018 for “Five More Minutes,” in 2019 for “This is It,” in 2021 for “In Between,” in 2022 for “You Time,” and in 2024 for “It Matters to Her”). He was awarded Pandora Billionaire status in 2021 in recognition of his music achieving more than one billion streams on Pandora. His song “Five More Minutes” inspired two popular holiday movies which aired on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Network: “Five More Minutes” in 2021 and “Five More Minutes: Moments Like These” in 2022. He released his first book Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream in 2016. McCreery was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2023. Last year, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry by Josh Turner and Randy Travis, after being invited by Garth Brooks. The singer/songwriter married his high school sweetheart Gabi in 2018. The couple had their first son Avery in October 2022 and are expecting their second child in Fall 2025.
