Tickets on Sale Saturday at Star Tickets Plus inside ALL Metroplex Albertson's locations and here at KSCS.com! Tickets for the 2005 Country Fair are $10 each.

Buy your tickets here or call StarTickets Plus at 800/585-3737.

It's the 2005 96.3 KSCS Country Fair featuring Brad Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, Andy Griggs, Diamond Rio, Jeff Bates (Long Slow Kisses), Sugarland (Baby Girl) and Miranda Lambert (Me and Charlie Talking)!

Also, Celena Rae from American Idol will also make an appearance... More details on that soon!

This year’s Country Fair will be Saturday, April 9th.

Brad Paisley

In 2000, Paisley won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award and the Academy of Country Music's best new male vocalist trophy and received his first Grammy nomination in 2001 in the all-genre best new artist category. He made his Grand Ole Opry debut May 28, 1999, and after 40 some appearances, he was inducted into the Opry on Feb. 17, 2001.

In 2002, he released his follow-up album Part II. According to Paisley, Part II picks up right where Who Needs Pictures left off, literally. "The fiddle that fades out at the end of the first record leads you into the first song on Part II," he says. "I pictured someone putting them in the CD player and playing them back to back." The album garnered his third No. 1 hit with the hilarious "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishing Song)."

His third album, Mud on the Tires, arrived in 2003. It features the hits "Celebrity", and the award-winning duet with Alison Krauss, "Whiskey Lullabye".

LeAnn Rimes

You've known this day was coming, ever since an extraordinary prodigy named LeAnn Rimes became a country music phenomenon. With the release of This Woman, LeAnn Rimes fulfills the promise she showed as a thirteen-year-old superstar. Her voice -- breathtaking a decade ago -- has grown in range and power. The lessons of life have deepened her ability to bring meaning to a lyric. And her fearlessness will challenge us too -- to set aside preconceptions about country music, about music in general …and certainly about LeAnn Rimes, whose finest days have just begun. LeAnn's latest hit, "Nothin' 'Bout Love Makes Sense" added to her list of chart-topping singles!

Andy Griggs

You’ve heard Andy Griggs on moving ballads like “She Thinks She Needs Me” and “If Heaven.” And you’ve heard Andy Griggs storming through firecracker country rockers like “I’ll Go Crazy.” But you haven’t yet heard the full range of this Gold Record winning artist’s music, and that’s something he wants to correct.

“There’s a big variety of music inside of me,” Andy says. “I think people have heard it when I sing and play live. But I felt like it was missing on my records. It’s nothing for me to listen to KISS and then put on a Bill Monroe record. There’s a lot of room in between those two.”

“There was a certain sound I felt like I was still fishing for. I think this album here and the changes I’ve made have put me exactly in the right spot.”

Diamond Rio

There was never a “Plan B.”

Whether or not Diamond Rio had become a star country-music band, its six members agree that somewhere tonight in America they’d all be making a living with music somehow.

Electric guitarist Jimmy Olander vows he’d either be in a recording studio or writing songs with somebody. Bass player and baritone harmony singer Dana Williams had a single-minded dedication to becoming a professional musician since he was in the seventh grade, so he’d definitely be picking or singing someplace. Classically trained keyboardist Dan Truman says he’d probably be teaching or working in theater. Mandolinist and tenor singer Gene Johnson believes he’d be a bluegrass sideman, which is what he’d been for years before stardom arrived. Drummer Brian Prout joined a rock band in Florida after graduating from high school, so his only career experience has been as a working musician. Lead vocalist Marty Roe figures he would have tried a solo career if Diamond Rio had never come to pass.

“And as long as we’re able to be a vehicle for songs as great as these, we’ll always just keep coming back around,” adds Brian. “I’ve never really had a Plan B, because this is all I’ve ever done since I got out of high school.”

“I don’t know how to do anything else,” Dana cheerfully admits.

“I would have stayed in music no matter what,” comments Dan. “One way or another, we all would have.”

Jeff Bates

Jeff Bates has a voice like the mud at the bottom of the Mississippi -- deep, thick and with enough grit that you know it can only come from the residue of a world completely inhabited. When he talks about knowing, he means that in the completest sense imaginable. A child of dubious origins, taken in by a Mississippi sharecropper and the Pentecostal minister's daughter who was his wife, the dark-haired darker-eyed songwriter seems like the stuff of which country cliches are made. Until you talk to him about where he's been, what he's seen and where he's headed, and then you realize this kind of honesty, passion and depth of soul only comes from a true connection to one's own heart.

Sugarland

Before forming the band Sugarland, each individual career of this Atlanta-based trio seemed headed in an opposite direction. Jennifer Nettles, a powerhouse singer with some serious twang, was working steadily on the local club circuit. Kristen Hall, a singer-songwriter specializing in searing heartache, had released two well-received solo albums. Kristian Bush, a local folk-rock hero, is one half of Billy Pilgrim, a duo with a major record label deal.

Four months after getting together, Sugarland played their first gig and were astounded by the audience reaction. By their fourth gig, they were selling out 1,000 seat venues. Two weeks later, they signed a contract with Mercury Records.

Their major label debut, Twice the Speed of Life, was released in October 2004.

Miranda Lambert

Miranda Lambert was born Nov. 10, 1983, and is a native of Lindale, Texas. Her father Rick is a country guitarist and songwriter who gathered friends and neighbors often to his rural home. During the week, he and Miranda's mother Bev run a detective agency. But country music is the heart of the household on weekends, with the young Lambert raised on the songs of Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, Merle Haggard and her dad.