Magic, comedy and music will bring the annual Steel Days celebration to a close with the Big Show on July 11.

Country music singer-songwriter Nathan Osmond will perform his hits in a concert that is free to the public. The event will be in the Art Dye Complex, 1000 N. 550 East, American Fork.

“We wanted to make it a friendly, free, family event,” Kristen Page of the Steel Days Committee said. “It will be where parents can come, enjoy a night with their kids without dipping in their pockets.”

Following Osmond’s performance, there will be the traditional fireworks display.

“The theme of the show is ‘Nathan Osmond . . . A Welcome to the Party’,” said Jodi Frost, head of the Big Show. “His portion will run about 90 minutes. He has a new album being released this year. It is called ‘Homebound Heroes.’

“Osmond is one of country music’s new acts,” she said. “He was nominated as the New Artist of the Year and the Male Vocalist of the Year by the New Music Awards in Los Angeles.”

His last four singles have hit No. 1 on several country charts. They include “Sweet,” “The Tailgate Song,” “There’s a Whole Lot About a Woman,” and “Stars and Stripes.”

Because Osmond is local to Utah Valley, he is doing the show at a reduced cost, which allows the public to be admitted for free.

“This is the first year — at least recently — there has been no cost,” she said. “People should bring their chairs and blankets.”

At the first of the event, beginning at 7 p.m., magician Paul Brewer will entertain.

He is touted as “the one and only entertainer who can mesmerize two dozen kids, a roomful of adults, and amazingly, even a cynical teen — all at once.”

Brewer incorporates humor into his magic, and has “laughter guaranteed” as his slogan.

He has played small family parties to large corporate events. His assistant is his wife, Jodi. They performed in 1,600 sold-out shows in the Lotte World Adventure theme park in Korea. They entertained daily, without being fluent in Korean. He has 30 years’ experience.

Osmond is nephew of Donny and Marie. He and his brothers formed The Osmonds 2^nd Generation and toured the world singing in many languages.

“We’re had three songs in the top 40 in the UK,” he said.

After he returned from serving an LDS mission in Chile, he toured for two years in North America with “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and portrayed Charlie Brown in the national tour of “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.”

He was cast as LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley’s mission companion in the film “Gordon B. Hinckley – A Giant Among Men.”

Bob Hope discovered Nathan and his brothers and gave them their first national television appearance on his Christmas show in 1986. The brothers won the Golden Bell Award in Taiwan and were voted Branson, Mo.’s Best Young Group of the Year, three years in a row. They were inducted into Branson’s Hall of Fame.

More information on Steel Days events is available at that link on afcity.org.