The Harney County Fair Board recently announced that country music recording artist Steve Holy will appear in Burns in early August.

“The people of Harney County have long been starved for big-name entertainment to come back to Harney County. The fair board would like to begin to go back to the days when it became tradition to have acts such as Sawyer Brown, Exile, The Oak Ridge Boys, Dan Seals, Mel McDaniel and Chris LeDoux appear on stage at the fairgrounds in the early 1990s,” said Don Slone, fair manager.

“In a Poll Barn question of people for the Burns Times-Herald, Sept. 5, 2007, the question was, ‘What would you most like to see happen at the fair?’ The answer was overwhelmingly ‘big name entertainment.’ ”

In keeping with that request, the fair board has been working to solidify Steve Holy as the first act, in hopefully a long list of acts in future years.

Holy’s hits include “Brand New Girlfriend” and “Good Morning Beautiful.” His style is a blend of ’50s rock, pop and traditional country.

According to the fair board, without the help of sponsors, the event will be impossible to produce; though it could possibly bring in more than $260,000 to the Burns/Hines area. “Your business may reap the rewards of some of that money,” said Slone.

Three levels of sponsorship are being offered by the fair board — gold, silver and bronze. The gold sponsor fee is $1,000, and includes six reserved seats, two meet and greet passes, business logo on 250 posters and ads, business introduced at the beginning of the concert and before the main act and a business banner on the fence near the stage.

The silver sponsor fee is $500 and includes three reserved seats, one meet and greet pass, business logo on 250 posters and ads, business introduced at the beginning of the concert, and a business banner on the front fence.

Bronze sponsorship cost is $300 and includes two reserved seats, one meet and greet pass, business logo on 250 posters and ads, and an introduction at the beginning of the concert.

The concert is scheduled for Aug. 9 at the Harney County Fairgrounds. Opening act for Holy will be Coyote Creek. For more information, call Slone at 573-6447.