XL Country -Maddie & Tae are set to perform Thursday, July 21st at 7pm at Fairgrounds

This awesome concert is FREE with fair admission. Maddie Marlow and Tae Dye never intended to strike a nerve when they wrote “Girl In A Country Song.” Merely expressing their honest reaction to the reductive tilt of today’s “bro country,” the pair along with co-writer Aaron Scherz, shamelessly skewered its Xeroxed stereotypes. “Girl In A Country Song,” proved they weren’t alone in their feelings of the current state of country music. After the song’s release last summer, the response from critics and fans was so intense that there was no denying its power. NPR’s “All Things Considered” praised Maddie & Tae for “turning heads in different ways with their very first single” and Rolling Stone cited them as one of “10 New Artists You Need to Know.” David Letterman couldn’t get the plucky duo to New York fast enough for their late night debut. Even The Atlantic marveled, “Cheekily appropriating much of the sound of modern Country, the two young women directly quote well-known Bro-Country lyrics and titles…”