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Dixie Chicks to play two sold-out nights at the State Fair

August 16, 2016 at 7:02PM

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2007, file photo, the Dixie Chicks, Emily Robison, left, Natalie Maines, center, and Martie Maguire, who earned five Grammy nominations, arrive for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The Dixie Chicks are ready to party in the USA with a summer 2016 tour. The Grammy-winning group will kick off its ìDCX MMXVI World Tourî on June 1, 2016, in Cincinnati. It wraps in Los Angeles on Oct. 10, 2016. The group will visit more than 40 cities, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Dallas and Toronto. The Dixie Chicks' North American tour will follow the group's European tour that begins in April. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Dixie Chicks

One of the biggest country acts of the 1990s, the Dixie Chicks haven't toured or released an album of new material in 10 years. But that didn't stop the trio from selling out two shows at the State Fair. Yes, it's an election year and the Chicks aren't apolitical. Their repertoire, filled with such hits as "Goodbye Earl" and "White Trash Wedding," has been expanded with covers of Bob Dylan, Beyoncé and Prince. Opening is Vintage Trouble, those energetic punk-funkers from Los Angeles. (7:30 p.m. Aug. 27-28, grandstand, sold out.)

Jon Bream