A Stacey's jamboree reprise Bangor Daily News

The Bangor State Fair is an event which hearkens back to a simpler time.
One of the headline acts for the 161st edition of the fair, which runs July 30-Aug. 8 at Bass Park, also comes from an earlier, fondly remembered era.
For more than a decade, from 1972 to 1983, "Stacey's Country Jamboree" was a Saturday night staple which had TV viewers tuning in from all over Eastern Maine.

Now many of that show's alumni will come together again for a special reunion concert to be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7, at the Bass Park Grandstand.

Included in the concert will be Don Nickerson and his Country Mist band, Charlie & Rita Keenan, Vern Robinson, Rich & Nancy, Debbie (Thompson) Pelletier, Peter D, Rodney Hurd, Archie Rivers and Jeff Simons, along with the inimitable Dick Stacey.

Special guests will include Nashville recording artist Joan Kennedy, Stacey's daughter-in-law; and balladeer Dave Pike from Massachusetts.

This will be the first U.S. reunion concert since the show went off the air. There have been two highlight compilation DVDs made, with the first volume already out and the second to be released in conjunction with the concert.
Stacey, 74, is looking forward to this event, which was organized largely by his son, Scott Stacey, and Kennedy.

"This is my hometown," he said. "It'd be an appropriate place to wrap this up."

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