CUMMING — The Cumming Fairgrounds plays host to many events, ranging from farmers markets and food tastings to an annual fair, but next weekend things likely will get a little more rambunctious.

On Sept. 4, 5 and 6, the city will welcome the International Professional Rodeo Association World Championship.

“It’s always a fun event,” said Dave Horton, fairgrounds director. “It’s one of those things that it’s action packed from beginning to end, as there’s not a lot of lag time.

“They usually go from one event, then they might have a specialty act when they’re getting the next event ready. There’s not any real down time. They take, I think, a 15-minute intermission.”

Horton said attendees will get to see different bull riders, as each night the rodeo will have a new lineup. And unless the winner was there the final night, he may not know he’s won until the following week.

“You see different cowboys each night,” Horton said. “If they’re a bull rider on Friday night, then when they get done bull riding they’re leaving here, probably traveling a couple hundred miles to ride in another rodeo on Saturday, and probably doing the same thing on Sunday.”

“On a holiday weekend, they’re probably doing the same thing on Monday.”

Though bull riding is likely the most anticipated event, Horton said there are other crowd-pleasing activities.

“This is a full rodeo,” he said. “It’s an eight-event rodeo, which includes bull riding, women’s barrel racing, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, calf roping, team roping and the cowgirl breakaway roping.”

The event will also bring out food and merchandise vendors, and likely a mechanical bull.

“It always brings in good specialty acts,” Horton said. “Bobby Cox from Florida is our rodeo clown, and then Texas Jack Fulbright is our specialty act. He’s a trick roper and whip act. He’s performed … in Europe and with the will Rogers Follies in New York.”

Horton said that the crowd involvement is part of what makes the event a success each year.

“It’s pretty exciting,” he said. “The crowd always gets involved. They’re always whooping and hollering. When a cowboy doesn’t make his eight-second ride, they cheer him up a little bit, give him some applause.”

The rodeo will start at 8 p.m. on Sept. 4 and 5 and 7 p.m. on Sept. 6. Gates will open about two hours before the event.

Admission is $15 for adults 14 and older, $12 for seniors 65 and older, $10 for kids ages 5-12 and free for children 4 and younger. More information can be found at http://www.cummingfair.net/calendar-of-events/rodeo/.