VISIT THE SONIC BOOM STAGE (LOCATED IN CHEVROLET TOWN SQUARE) DURING YOUR VISIT TO THIS YEAR’S STATE FAIR OF TEXAS.

Concert Schedule

• Wednesday 10/5/2011
  Oil Boom
• Thursday 10/6/2011
  Backseat Molly
• Friday 10/7/2011
  IMAJ
• Saturday 10/8/2011
  Shawn Fussell Band
• Sunday 10/9/2011
  The Roaming Soldiers
• Monday 10/10/2011
  Luke Wade & No Civilians
• Tuesday 10/11/2011
  Cody Riley Band
• Wednesday 10/12/2011
  Greg Schroeder                           
• Thursday 10/13/2011
  Backseat Molly
• Friday 10/14/2011
  Scotty Thurman and The Perfect Trouble Band
• Saturday 10/15/2011
  Becky Middleton
• Sunday 10/16/2011
  Shawn Fussell Band
• Monday 10/17/2011
  My Wooden Leg
• Tuesday 10/18/2011
  Derek Larson & The Leavers
• Wednesday 10/19/2011
  Cody Riley Band
• Thursday 10/20/2011
  Scotty Thurman and The Perfect Trouble Band
• Friday 10/21/2011
  Derek Larson & The Leavers
• Saturday 10/22/2011
  Shawn Fussell Band
• Sunday 10/23/2011
  IMAJ

Entertainment Schedule

• Friday 10/7/2011
  Home Depot Tiling Clinic 1:30PM – 3:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
• Tuesday 10/11/2011
  City of Dallas Instructional Talks 10:00AM – 3:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Urban Chicken Farming 10:00AM – 10:30AM Sonic Boom Stage
  Cartons are Recyclable? 10:30AM – 11:00AM Sonic Boom Stage
  Learn Your Carbon Footprint 11:00AM – 11:30AM Sonic Boom Stage
  Recycle to Win 2:30PM – 3:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
• Thursday 10/13/2011
  City of Dallas Instructional Talks 12:30PM – 2:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Recycle to Win 12:30PM – 1:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Urban Chicken Farming 1:00PM – 1:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Learn Your Carbon Footprint 1:30PM – 2:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Compost Happens 2:00PM – 2:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
• Friday 10/14/2011
  Home Depot Behr Paint Clinic 10:00AM – 11:00AM Sonic Boom Stage
• Saturday 10/15/2011
  Home Depot Behr Paint Clinic 10:00AM – 11:00AM Sonic Boom Stage
• Sunday 10/16/2011
  Texas Rangers Baseball Clinic 12:00PM – 3:00PM Equinox All-Star Park
• Monday 10/17/2011
  City of Dallas Instructional Talks 10:00AM – 3:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Urban Chicken Farming 10:00AM – 10:30AM Sonic Boom Stage
  Cartons are Recyclable? 10:30AM – 11:00AM Sonic Boom Stage
  Learn Your Carbon Footprint 11:00AM – 11:30AM Sonic Boom Stage
  Recycle to Win 2:30PM – 3:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Compost Happens 3:00PM – 3:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
• Tuesday 10/18/2011
  City of Dallas Instructional Talks 2:00PM – 3:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Recycle to Win 2:00PM – 3:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Compost Happens 3:00PM – 3:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
• Thursday 10/20/2011
  City of Dallas Instructional Talks 12:30PM – 2:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Recycle to Win 12:30PM – 1:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Urban Chicken Farming 1:00PM – 1:30PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Learn Your Carbon Footprint 1:30PM – 2:00PM Sonic Boom Stage
  Compost Happens 3:00PM – 3:30PM Sonic Boom Stage

Deep Fried Biscuits and Gravy: Breakfast of champions! A flaky biscuit filled with gravy is dipped in a light batter and deep fried. Belgian Waffle stand on Grand Ave.

Texas Steak Cone: A giant flour tortilla cone is stuffed with mixed beans, juicy steak, chicken, pico, shredded cheese, and sour cream. Squeeze on some lime juice and add red, white or green sauce to complete this tasty medley. Ole! Benz Foods on Cotton Bowl Plaza.

Heavenly Deep Fried Brownie: A bite-sized brownie battered and deep fried to perfection! Dusted with a sprinkling of powdered sugar and served with chocolate-cherry syrup ambrosia. Tower Building and on Grand Avenue at the Ranchero Fajitas stand.

Fried Naked Tamales: New twist on a Mexican food favorite! Fresh tamales are dipped in an egg wash and rolled in masa harina para tamales. Deep fried and delicious! Ruth’s Tamales on Cotton Bowl Plaza and MLK Blvd. across from the Coliseum.

Deep Fried Southern Hospitality: An intriguing combination of seasoned pork, fresh collard greens, and hot water cornbread. Shaped in a cone and deep fried to perfection. Served on a stick. Ruth’s Tamales on Cotton Bowl Plaza and MLK Blvd. across from the Coliseum.

Double Fried Chicken Breast Taco: Gently hand-breaded home-style chicken breast wrapped and refried in a flour tortilla. Served hot with your choice of cream gravy or jalapeno ranch dressing. Viva el taco! Grand Place Building and on MLK Blvd. beside the Texas Star.

Praline Sweet Potato Poppers: Sweet potatoes are mashed and blended with a mixture of butter, brown sugar, brandy, orange zest, chopped pecans, ginger, and marshmallows. Dipped in sweet batter. Fried and dusted with cinnamon sugar. Cotton Bowl Plaza at the Pizza and Nacho stand.

Fernie’s Deep Fried Whole Lotta Chocolatta: Fernie’s special recipe consisting of two slices of Italian bread stuffed with dark chocolate, dipped in egg wash, coated with crunchy bread crumbs, and deep fried. Served with a side of Russet potato chips, sprinkled with sea salt AND drizzled with a hard white and milk chocolate shell. Perfected with a dollop of milk chocolate whipped cream. (If 21, served with a glass of chocolate wine.) The Dock inside the Embarcadero Building on Admiral Nimitz Cir.

Fried Pecan Caramel Candy: A one of a kind confection consisting of flattened caramel candy squares deliciously dipped in pecan chocolate batter and deep fried. This trio of flavors is topped off with a buttery caramel sauce. Barrera’s on Fun Way in front of Lost Children’s Shelter.

NEW VENDORS

CRISPIES located on the Midway at the intersection of MLK and Midway

Deep Fried Chicken Skin – Why bother with all of that meat? The skin has been separated from the chicken to deliver the best part of fried chicken in every mouthful. Available in MILD or HOT & SPICY. This tasty treat is lightly seasoned, battered, and then deep fried until crisp. Deep Fried Cake Balls – A bite size morsel of moist crumbled cake blend with rich, chocolate or vanilla frosting. Dipped in a homemade batter and fried to a golden brown perfection, topped with a dollop of whipped cream powdered sugar and drizzled with chocolate syrup.
Fried Loaded Mashed Potato – Twist on a Southern Classic. A Texas version of the loaded mashed potatoes in one crunchy bite! All the fixin’s are added to mashed potatoes-bacon, cheese, green onions, sour cream and butter. Rolled to perfection, then dipped in batter and deep fried. Served drizzled with brown gravy!

CASSIE’S FROZEN YOGURT located at the intersection of Pike and Fun Way on Fun Way St.

Frozen Yogurt – Frozen yogurt that will vary in flavor weekly (Red Velvet Cake, Birthday Cake, Peanut Butter Cup, and Old Classics).
French Dog – A grilled, all beef hot dog inserted into one half of a crispy French baguette. Condiments may be added before the dog is placed in the bread. This original doggy also comes deep fried.

COWBOY’S STYLE PHILLYS is located in the Food Court inside the Tower Building

Sirloin steak or seasoned chicken, sautéed with bell pepper, red onions, mushrooms, and cheese and served on a fresh soft, French roll. Cowboy Style Philly sandwiches come in many different flavors: lemon, pepper, blue cheese crumble, zesty BBQ, hot-hot-hot!. Served with a side of fresh, seasoned waffle fries.

BRAIN FREEZE is located on Fun Way in front of the Lost Children’s Shelter

Self-serve frozen slushies in a bevy of flavors to chill your body and your mind, hence the name, Brain Freeze. Half priced refills on all cups to keep your mind in a total freeze. Also serving fresh brewed sweetened and unsweetened iced tea to tickle the fancy of true Southerners!

ISLAND SPOT is located on First Ave. on the lawn of the Magnolia Lounge across from the Old Mill Inn.

A taste of Jamaica with chicken leg quarters, beef patties, Sausages on a Bun and tofu. All are marinated in jerk seasonings and smoked on a grill to Jamaican jerk perfection! These island treats would not be complete without fried bread pudding!

THE ORIGINAL BERRIE KABOB is located in the Food Court inside the Tower Building

Fresh strawberries and bananas on a kabob drizzled with Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate. These beautiful kabobs are almost too pretty to eat! We also serve frozen cheesecake on a stick drizzled in Milk Chocolate.

CHIP’S OLD FASHIONED HAMBURGERS is located on Pike Street inside the Kids Way Area

A concession location that caters to our pint size visitors with a Kid Menu featuring kid size helpings of chicken tenders or steak fingers w/cream gravy, burgers and cheeseburgers, mini corny dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches, and hot dogs. All are served with French fries and a juice box or small soda. Also featured the adult size of burgers and beverages.

WILLIAMS CHICKEN TENDERS is located in Cotton Bowl Plaza

Fresh Chicken Tenderloins are marinated for more than 21 hours in a specially blended marinade. Dipped in flour and deep fried to golden, crunchy perfection outside and juicy tenderness inside. Served with fries and your choice of dipping sauces.

Bubblegum and flapjacks would seem to be unlikely candidates for fried-food fame, but that’s what happened at this year’s State Fair of Texas Big Tex® Choice Awards, which honor new foods at the Fair. Fried Bubblegum by concessionaire Justin Martinez is this year’s “Most Creative” new food, and Buffalo Chicken in a Flapjack won the “Best Taste” award.

Concessionaire Allan Weiss’ Buffalo Chicken in a Flapjack features a buffalo chicken strip coated in flapjack batter, rolled in jalapeno bread crumbs, deep fried to a golden brown, and then skewered and served with a side of syrup; you can find this meal on a stick in the Automobile Building and in the Thrillway.

Fried Bubblegum tastes like gum, but it’s not: It’s a flavored marshmallow dipped in batter and lightly fried, then it’s decorated with a swirl of icing and sprinkled with powdered sugar. You can find this new offering at Granny’s Funnel Cakes on Coliseum Drive.

1 Hans’ Kraut Balls
Hans Mueller – Cotton Bowl Plaza
Hans Mueller – Chevy Main Stage & Nimitz
2 Fried Autumn Pie
Stiffler Brothers – Nimitz Drive
3 Fried Pineapple Upside-down cake
Big As Texas – Fun Way
Big As Texas – Nimitz Circle
4 Fried Bubblegum (Big Tex® Choice: Most Creative)
Granny’s Funnel Cakes – Coliseum Drive
5 Walking Taco
Darn Good Corn – Coliseum
6 Buffalo Chicken in a Flapjack (Big Tex® Choice: Best Tasting)
Weiss Enterprises – Grand Avenue
Weiss Enterprises – Thrillway
Weiss Enterprises – Automobile Building
7 El Bananarito
Funnel Cakes – Fun Way
8 Deep Fried Texas Salsa™
Taste of Cuba – Cotton Bowl Plaza

2011 Fall Garden Exhibition

Abacado Stonescapes
All Metroplex Landscape Services, Inc.
Bare Roots
Behringer Harvard Residential
Bill Dunlop
C Green
City of Dallas
Clint Horticulture
Complete Landsculpture, Inc.
Cooper’s Natural Habitat
Darr Equipment Co.
Dawn of a New Lawn
Daybreak Landscaping & Irrigation
Dayspring Landscaping
Earth Tones
Gardens for Texas
Gardenscapes by Diane
Good Earth Inc.
Greener Pastures
GreenFingers
Greenforest Services
Grow It Land Designs
Innovative Landscape
Ladybirdd Landscapes
Mayfield Landscaping
Metro Lawn Care
Metro Tex Landscaping
Moonflower Gardens
Natural Environments
Navco Lawn Service
NorthPark Center
North Texas Lawn & Landscape
North Texas Master Naturalist
Organic Options
Outdoor Creations
Preservation Tree Services
Ron’s Lawn
Roundtree Landscaping, Inc.
Sunset Landscape Services
Texas A&M Earthkind Rose Bed
Texas Blooms
Texas Oasis
Texas Xeriscapes
The Home Depot
The Lawn Mowgul
Tricia Quaid Landscape Design
TruGreen Landcare
Urban Landscaping & Irrigation
Van’s Landscape Services
Weisz Selection
Woods Landscape Services
Yellow Rose Landscape

A special thank you to the following companies that have generously donated materials for the State Fair Fall Garden Exhibition:

Chesshir Stone & Rock
ForeverLawn of North Texas
Gnomegarden-net
PDSI
Precesion Landscape Management
Rosemeade Market & Greenhouse
Southern Living Magazine
Southwest Wholesale Nursery
Texas Pure Products
Y-C Nurseries

And Big Tex sends a BIG HOWDY and THANKS to the artists!

Click here for participating artists