Chance the Rapper will rejoin his summer friends in Minnesota in the State Fair’s 2024 lineup

The Grammy-winning Chicago hip-hop star has made the Twin Cities one of the only stops on his limited itinerary.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
March 12, 2024 at 3:39PM
Chance plays to a sold out crowd at the Xcel Energy Center, May 12, 2017. Concert review of Chance the Rapper, whose concert Friday at Xcel Center sold out in a couple hours and follows his win as the Grammys' best new artist and his $1 million donation to schools in his native Chicago. ORG XMIT: MIN2017051222241855
Chance the Rapper last played in town to a sold-out crowd at Xcel Energy Center in 2017. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

With the Minnesota State Fair’s spotty history of hip-hop bookings, Twin Cities rap fans should cheer the news that one of the cheeriest and best MCs of the day will be a grandstand headliner in 2024.

Chance the Rapper has been confirmed to play the grandstand on the first Friday of the fair, Aug. 23. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. via eTix.com priced $48-$148, with presale options starting Thursday. An opening act has not been named.

The Grammy-winning Chicago wordsmith known for the radio hits “No Problem” and “Summer Friends,” Chance has largely been on break from performing and recording in recent years. Instead, he has kept up his profile as a coach on NBC’s “The Voice.” The Minnesota fair gig is one of only three currently on his tour itinerary, and there’s still no word on when his follow-up to his 2019 album “The Big Day.”

This will be Chance’s first Twin Cities performance since his sold-out Xcel Energy Center show in 2017, but it will actually be his third time performing on the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. He also appeared there in a 2014 set at the Soundset Festival and in a 2013 gig opening for Macklemore & Ryan in the fair’s grandstand series.

Chance’s show is the fifth of the 11 headlining acts to be announced in the ticketed grandstand series for 2024. Here’s the schedule so far:

  • Friday, Aug. 23: Chance the Rapper
  • Saturday, Aug. 24: Nate Bargatze (comedian)
  • Monday, Aug. 26: The Happy Together Tour 2024 with the Turtles, Jay & the Americans, the Association, Joe Molland’s Badfinger, the Vogues and the Cowsills
  • Thursday, Aug. 29: Mötley Crüe
  • Monday, Sept. 2: Kidz Bop Live
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Chris Riemenschneider

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Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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