A flash mob of Sedalia’s Center Stage Academy students dancing in front of the Pepsi Grandstands. The mob executed their moves in the middle of a crowd of fair goers Saturday afternoon.

Steve Russell of the “In Capable Hands” show balances a baby stroller from the audience outside the Touchstone Energy Stage. Russell and his wife, Kobi Shaw, conducted their juggling comedy show daily during the fair.

Population was high on the fairgrounds, especially the Midway pictured above, as time neared the start of the Hank Williams Jr. and George Thorogood and the Destroyers show.

Fair goers riding the Cliff Hanger inside the carnival grounds.

Kids volunteered to be circus animals in the “See the Circus, Be the Circus” show. The show ran several times daily during the Missouri State Fair.

The carnival grounds at the Missouri State Fair Saturday evening.