The country music duo Montgomery Gentry, one of whom bagged some trouble in a Minnesota bear-shooting incident, is filling in its summer schedule with dates in the Upper Midwest.
The latest addition to the award-winning act's calendar is the South Dakota State Fair on Aug. 31.
Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry also will headline Winstock, a country music festival west of the Twin Cities in Winsted on June 13-14.
In November 2006, Gentry pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a misdemeanor charge of falsely registering a trophy bear as wild when, in fact, it was a captive bear that he shot in 2004 on a game farm near Sandstone, Minn. Gentry drew widespread criticism, much of it left on the act's MySpace web page.
Gentry issued a public apology, called the experience "humbling" and said he didn't realize the "seriousness of what I was doing" when he relied on "experts around me" in agreeing to improperly tag the bear.
Gentry agreed to pay a $15,000 fine. He also agreed to forfeit the bear and the bow used to shoot the animal, and to give up hunting, fishing and trapping in Minnesota for five years.
PAUL WALSH
