Sounds ranging from house music banjo to pre-teen rockers will share the stage with some bigger acts from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest during the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, July 28-31.

“A lower budget has forced us to be creative and it’s been fun to see what we could come up with,” fair entertainment director Amanda Randles said this week.

Saturday night’s main stage performances start with Lovely Colours, a Seattle indie pop quartet including vocalist Devin Damito and bassist James Rosales, both raised in Juneau. Kari Johnson, the fair’s executive director, discovered the band while shopping for acts around Puget Sound.

It turns out that some of the band’s players had performed in Haines as high school students, Randles said. “They’re an up-and-coming band in Seattle. They sound fun. We’re really excited to have them.”

Clips of the band’s songs “The Garden” and “Just Like You,” including videos, can be found on Facebook.

Blackwater Railroad Company, a five-piece, Seward-based string band that blends bluegrass, country rock and Americana, will follow Lovely Colours on the main stage. The band brings a diversity of sounds and tempos, ranging from high-energy bluegrass to Steve Forbert-like ballads, weaving Alaska themes into its repertoire.

Randles said the band was the first Alaska-based act to perform on the main stage of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer. Music from their three albums, “Sound of Home,” “Nenana” and “Bottom of the Bay” can be heard on Spotify.

The Lack Family will close Saturday night’s big show and dance with rock standards and originals. The family band has steadily built a local following since debuting at the fair’s Garden Stage years ago.

“If the fair was to have a house band, it would be the Lack Family,” Randles said.

Moontricks, a duo from British Columbia whose music has frequently been licensed for television and film, promises to offer up the fair’s most intriguing sounds. Their performance on the fair’s opening night was forced by a scheduling snafu, but Randles said fairgoers shouldn’t mistake the scheduling for the band’s appeal.

Combining folk, blues and electronic music, Nathan Gurley and Sean Rodman have played folk festivals and electronic festivals, and their hit song “Home” has racked up 5 million streams. Since debuting in 2013, they’ve played at Lightning in a Bottle and Shambhala Music Festival.

The duo’s music can be found on Spotify. “They’re very fascinating,” Randles said. “I think their act is going to be something that’s very new to what we’re used to listening to.”

Friday’s night’s main stage show will feature Speed Control, a Whitehorse, Y.T. rock band, as well as New Twin, an act featuring Natalie Healy, previously of Skagway’s Nat King Kong.

For daytime acts, Randles said she is “filling a Bingo card” with fun acts from around the region, including Six-Foot Seas, a surfer-rock band from Gustavus; Orbe and the Sungazers, a blues-rock band from Sitka; Del Gatto, a two-piece electronic act from Petersburg and Dunch, a hard-rock group from Skagway.

Cows Go Moo, a main stage rock act on Friday, features six members from Whitehorse, Y.T., all between the ages of 10 and 12. The band’s musical chops, hard-driving sound and offbeat lyrics will surprise fair audiences, Randles said.

Performers from Juneau will include Jake Soboleff, Taylor Vidic, Avery Stewart, Henry Leasia and the Honey Badgers. Solo acts Zak Kirkpatrick of Sitka and Lucas McCain of Skagway also are slated to play.

Randles said digging deep into the regional music scene has uncovered some gems. “They also know how to get here,” she said.