“Weird Al” Yankovic is the first act announced for the 2026 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand series.

Tickets for his Aug. 28 show — which will be the seventh time the pop parodist has played the Grandstand — are priced from $89.25 to $54 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Etix and by phone at 800-514-3849. Puddles Pity Party opens.

Yankovic, 66, began playing the accordion at the age of seven and grew up listening to Elton John, Spike Jones, Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg and Frank Zappa. When he was 16, radio DJ and Minneapolis native Dr. Demento spoke at his high school and Yankovic gave him a cassette recording of a song he wrote about his family’s Plymouth Belvedere. Dr. Demento played it on his syndicated comedy show, which Yankovic credits as the launch of his musical career.

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