Your gate admission is your ticket to many of the fair’s best activities.

Each year, we seek to offer a great value for your money by providing family friendly activities and entertainment that comes free with your gate admission.

While the offerings change from year to year, the 2026 fair offered the following with gate admission:

• Live music from Carl Brunson (selected times throughout the week), Brantley Brown, the Edisto High School Blue Machine Marching Band, and the Broken Redemption Band (Sunday at 2 PM)

• The Steamers Thrill Show

• Comedy Farm Magic Review

• Pompeyo Family Dog Show

• The SC 250 Exhibit

• The vendors in the Exhibit Building (including free healthcare screenings from MUSC, flu shots from Grove Park Pharmacy, information from local businesses, and more)

• The competitive exhibits displayed in the Exhibit Building (including the fine arts, crafts, floral and horticulture, canned goods, field crops, prepared foods, and seed art)

• The barn, which includes antique farm equipment, rabbits, chickens, and corn play box

• Livestock shows featuring local 4-H youth

• High school tractor driving competition

• Clogging show from Move with Celeste

• Balloon animals and face painting