Musical grandstand acts for the 2025 Allamakee County Fair include up-and-coming country music soloists Shane Profitt and Mae Estes
The Allamakee County Fair Board has announced this year’s grandstand musical entertainment for the 2025 Allamakee County Fair scheduled for July 16-20. A pair of up-and-coming young country music artists will be taking to the stage Friday, July 18, as Tennessee “blue collar” story-teller Shane Profitt will headline the night’s musical entertainment following the opening act of three-time Arkansas Country Music Association (CMA) Female Vocalist of the Year Mae Estes.
Described as a “salt-of-the-earth southerner with a straight-shooting swagger and kind smile,” Shane Profitt went from working overtime at his city job and playing music on the weekends as recently as 2021 to now playing at such historic venues as Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ole Opry. Getting his start in music learning to play Hank Williams, Jr. songs on the guitar through inspiration from his grandfather, Profitt couples that start with what has been described as his “big, barrel-chested voice” to tell his life-inspired tales.
Those stories that hit close to home have best been told by Profitt’s Top 15 Country radio single “How It Oughta Be,” with tunes like “Better Off Fishin’” and “Guys Like Me” showing further insight into the road he has traveled. In addition to sharing his fun and entertaining side, one of Profitt’s most recent tracks, “Still Picks Up,” shows his vulnerability and the layers of emotion he also puts into his music.
Getting a much earlier start in musical performing at the age of seven singing the National Anthem in a rodeo arena in her native Arkansas, Mae Estes has been singing ever since. After working her musical craft for nearly a decade on the Nashville country music scene, she began releasing her own music in 2019 and signed her first publishing deal with Plaid Flag Music in 2020, having accumulated more than 13 million streams across various platforms and more than a million views on YouTube.
Year 2022 was a big one for Estes, as the first release from her debut EP, “Thinkin’ ‘Bout Cheatin,’” also became her first video feature on Country Music Television (CMT), and she was awarded Arkansas CMA Female Vocalist of the Year honors for the second time out of three consecutive years she won the award. Having played in venues and events such as the Grand Ole Opry, Music City Grand Prix, Wrangler’s National Finals Rodeo, The Bluebird Cafe, CMA Fest, Nissan Stadium, and The Country Music Hall of Fame, Estes has most recently been recognized as the 2024 Rising Artist-Writer of the Year by the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) and a member of CMT’s Next Women of Country Class of 2024 in adding to her continually growing list of accolades.
In addition to her “Thinkin’ ‘Bout Cheatin’” ice-breaker, Estes has also exceeded the two-million streams milestone with “Hell You Raised,” and songs such as “Gettin’ Back Up to Heaven,” “Good Ol’ Boys” and “Your Hands” help tell her life’s tales in a spectrum of emotion and sensitivity that drives every song she writes and performs. One of her more recent releases, “High and Lonesome,” explores the ups and downs of the musical path she and many others have traveled in search of their performance and entertainment dreams.
Additional information about this year’s headlining act, Shane Profitt, can be found at https://www.shaneprofitt.com/ and more information about opening act Mae Estes can be found at https://www.maeestes.com/. Further details about this year’s Allamakee County Fair will also be printed in future editions of The Standard and can also be found online at https://www.allamakeecountyfair.org/.
