My hunch is if you look at those surrounding fairs you’ll find one of two (or both) things. Either their quality and perhaps quantity of concerts have dropped OR, if not, they have a much larger attendance. You are correct though in Booking Agencies can often offer artists package deals with multiple dates/fairs when the Booking Agency has the entertainment contract authority. That's why you'll often see the same acts at 8-10 different fairs in a season.
One case in point is the KY State Fair. They used to have four paid concerts every year in 18,000 seat Freedom Hall. Everyone from Journey, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Sugarland, Def Leppard, Taylor Swift, Train...and the list goes on and on. They’d have free concerts every night in Cardinal Stadium (TOAD, Trace Adkins, Alice Cooper, Montgomery Gentry etc) for all 11 nights.
After struggling to attract the bigger acts they did away with the tickets concerts in Freedom Hall a couple years ago and now just have the free ones. The concert lineup inside Freedom Hall had gone down in quality for three or four years before they made the decision.
Part of the issue was that the new arena opened downtown in Louisville....but even before that the quality of concerts had dipped starting in about 2011;
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