Iowa State Fair closes with country music star Carrie Underwood playing her biggest hits

Isaac Hamlet, Des Moines Register
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Future concert goers should note that Carrie Underwood will not draw your next tattoo.

"That's too much pressure," Underwood said after noticing a fan in the audience holding a sign asking the country star to draw a tattoo. "I can't draw nothing. The good Lord gave me the ability to sing some songs, he did not give me the ability to draw squat."

Thankfully, most of the 14,754 gathered for Underwood's Iowa State Fair Grandstand show on Sunday night came to hear her exercise that God-given gift.

Underwood kicked off her show on the final night of the State Fair with "Church Bells" before singing "Undo It" and "Cowboy Casanova."

She launched into "Denim & Rhinestones" from her latest album that came out in June along with some of her biggest hits, including "Something in the Water," "Cry Pretty" and "Wasted."

Country superstar and seven-time Grammy-award winner Carrie Underwood delivers hit after hit during the final grandstand concert of the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Sunday, August 21, 2022. The Oklahoma native and 2005 "American Idol" winner has an impressive musical resume featuring 28 songs that have reached No. 1 on the charts while selling more than 70 million records worldwide.

Near the end of the show, Underwood told the crowd: "This is normally the part where I walk off the stage and pretend it's over. We're gonna skip over that and get to the good stuff."

With that, she performed "Last Name" and "Before He Cheats," with raging flames displayed on the screen at the back of the stage before Underwood took the final bow on the 2022 State Fair Grandstand stage.

Country superstar and seven-time Grammy-award winner Carrie Underwood delivers hit after hit during the final grandstand concert of the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Sunday, August 21, 2022. The Oklahoma native and 2005 "American Idol" winner has an impressive musical resume featuring 28 songs that have reached No. 1 on the charts while selling more than 70 million records worldwide.

"Thank you guys so much for being here tonight," she said to the cheering crowd. "Iowa, we'll see you next time!"

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Isaac Hamlet covers arts, entertainment and culture at the Des Moines Register. Reach him at ihamlet@gannett.com or 319-600-2124, follow him on Twitter @IsaacHamlet.

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