The 49th Southeast Alaska State Fair will feature an eclectic mix of genres and sounds with its headliner picks this July, including two-time Grammy award winner Eric Krasno.

“He’s as good of a guitar player as I’ve ever seen,” said entertainment coordinator Scott Ramsey of Krasno. “I saw him play twice in Hawaii and I was just blown away.”

Krasno has been in the business for nearly two decades, co-founding bands Soulive and Lettuce as well as playing with the Rolling Stones and The Roots.

He has also worked behind the scenes with Norah Jones, Tedeschi Trucks, 50 Cent, Talib Kewli, Aaron Neville and Allen Stone.

The Eric Krasno Band is his first solo venture, said fair director Jessica Edwards. “His guitar playing really has drawn me in,” she said. The group is set to play at 8 p.m. Friday, July 28 on the main stage.

Artist Onry Ozzborn will be one of the first to bring hip-hop to Haines per request of Jacob Brown Beach.

Brown Beach said he saw Ozzborn, as a member of Dark Time Sunshine and Grayskul, perform several times in an underground hip-hop scene in Seattle, Washington.

“Hip-hop would be a great addition to some of the funky bands that we bring here,” Brown Beach said. “Onry’s music fits the scenery up here perfectly. He’s a very talented lyricist.”

Brown Beach said he’s excited his efforts to get Ozzborn to perform here paid off. Ozzborn will play at 11 p.m. on Friday, July 28 on the main stage.

“We try to really accommodate local preference, to incorporate what the community wants,” Ramsey said. “Hip-hop is not the thing that Haines generally defaults to, but we’re recognizing that there’s a younger crowd that wants that. We try to get good music throughout the day with local and regional acts to support that.”

Edwards said she’s especially excited for a new band to the fair called Dehli 2 Dublin, playing the main stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 29. Performing a fusion of Celtic and Indian music, Edwards said the group is “super energetic and multicultural.”

“They’re a completely different sound from anything we’ve had at the fair,” Edwards said.

New additions also include blues guitarist Jackie Vincent and a bluegrass band out of Colorado called Caribou Mountain Collective.

Ramsey said most of the main acts will perform 45-minute acoustic sets in a workshop style setting, with an opportunity for question and answer sessions with the audience.

The “Sunday jam” will happen again this year, Ramsey said, which has become a musical highlight of the fair. New Sound Underground, a high-energy instrumental band known for its soul funk sound, will lead the jam. The group will also perform at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, July 28 on the main stage.

The Whiskeydicks, Gordie Tentrees, and Jon Wayne and the Pain will all return to the fair this year, playing Saturday, July 29. Find out more about each act at http://www.seakfair.org.