Milwaukee’s own Steve Miller and his band will headline the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on Aug. 28.

Tickets are priced from $121.75 to $54 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Etix or by calling 800-514-3849.

Miller, 81, was born to a jazz singing mother and father who was a pathologist and amateur recording engineer. Electric guitar pioneer Les Paul was a family friend and Miller’s godfather. Paul heard Miller banging on a guitar at the age of 6 and encouraged him to pursue music.

After dropping out of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark six credit hours shy of a literature degree, Miller moved to Chicago in the early ’60s and immersed himself in the blues scene. In 1966, he relocated to San Francisco and formed the Steve Miller Band, which initially dabbled in psychedelic blues.

The Steve Miller Band released seven albums to little commercial success, but broke through to the mainstream with 1973’s “The Joker.” The group’s biggest hits include “Take the Money and Run,” “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Jet Airliner,” “Rock’n Me” and “Abracadabra.”

Miller earned headlines in 2016 when he was nominated to the Rock Hall as a solo artist. He told Rolling Stone: “I kind of enjoyed having people complain that I wasn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than I think I’ll like being in it.” After the induction ceremony, Miller further vented to the magazine in an expletive-filled rant about the ceremony and the music business in general.

The Rascals, a ’60s pop band known for the hits “Groovin’” and “Good Lovin’,” will open the show.

The Minnesota State Fair runs from Aug. 21 through Sept. 1. The Steve Miller Band joins the previously announced headliners Old Dominion on Aug. 21, the joint bill of Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls on Aug. 24, the Happy Together Tour on Aug. 25 and Def Leppard on Aug. 26.