Bieber-mania hits Timonium this weekend. And the Maryland State Fair may never be the same.
“We’ve never had anything like this before, not for the state fair,” says Andrew Cashman, the fair’s assistant general manager. “It’s unbelievable.”
How unbelievable? The 12,000 general admission tickets to Sunday’s concert sold out in 18 minutes. Plenty of tickets remain available for those willing to pay scalpers’ prices, which start at about double the original cost of $47.50 and head up from there. With such a huge crowd expected, fair organizers had to come up with special guidelines to ensure fans weren’t clogging the fairgrounds hours beforehand to get the best seats.
The solution: armbands will be distributed Sunday beginning at 8 a.m., allowing fans to go home (or, better yet, enjoy the rest of the fair) before coming back at 5:30 p.m. Then, depending on the color of their armbands, fans will be let into the racetrack infield in groups of 1,000. Attendees will doubtless start lining up for armbands at the crack of dawn Sunday.
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