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Two-time Grammy Award winner Colbie Caillat and rock duo Air Supply, who are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, headline the latest additions to the Big O Tires Concert Series schedule for the Alameda County Fair.
Rap-rock band Gym Class Heroes, longtime funk-soul favorites Tower of Power, country singer Sawyer Brown and popular Mexican group La Original Banda El Limón have also been announced over the past week as fair officials slow-release the concert lineup — with five acts left to go.
“A singer-songwriter who continues to captivate audiences through heartfelt storytelling,” as fair officials put it, Caillat rose to prominence in the mid-2000s with her pop hits “Bubbly” and “Realize”. She would go on to share in two Grammys in 2010: Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for “Lucky” with Jason Mraz, and Album of the Year as a featured artist on Taylor Swift’s “Fearless”.
Caillat is taking to the fairgrounds’ amphitheater stage on June 27.
The soft rock sounds of Air Supply are coming to the fair on June 19. Formed in Australia in 1975, the duo of Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock are best known for their romantic ballad hits in the early 1980s like “All Out of Love”, “Even the Nights Area Better” and “Making Love Out of Nothing at All”.
Gym Class Heroes, the New York rap-rock group fronted by Travie McCoy, were the other concert date announced Tuesday by fair officials touting McCoy’s “playful lyricism and energetic showmanship” encapsulated in their hits like “Cupid’s Chokehold” and “Stereo Hearts”. Gym Class Heroes are on the bill for opening weekend at the fair, June 14.
Late last week, the fair confirmed three other artists — a list that featured Oakland’s own Tower of Power on June 26, Sawyer Brown on June 18 and La Original Banda El Limón as the closing act on July 6.
The concert series, which kicks off on June 13 with WAR, also includes the likes of Sugar Ray (June 20), Twist on Taylor (June 21), Too $hort (June 25), Tesla (July 2) and Clint Black (July 3).
