'Angie' to go from Fairgoer to Performer on Tuesday Night

Angie Miller of Beverly will return to a North Shore location Tuesday that she knows well – the Topsfield Fair.

Instead of meandering through the midway with friends or gazing at the world’s largest pumpkin, she’ll be on stage in the grandstand on Tuesday night.

In an interview on Fox 25 on Friday, Miller said she has been going to the fair for many years, and “it’s going to be weird” to perform there, she said.

Miller plans to perform two original songs and “a ton of new covers that I never did on the show.”

Miller, who placed third on this year’s American Idol, is living at home in Beverly right now before she plans to move to Los Angeles to pursue her performing career.

In her four-minute interview on Fox Boston, she said it would be weird performing somewhere where she would have gone in the evening with a group of friends just last year while at Beverly High School.

Topsfield Fair General Manager James O'Brien said the fair had to keep Miller's appearance a secret until the American Idol show and live tour were over. The performer for her Tuesday night performance time in the grandstand is listed as "TBA" in the printed program, for example.

"We are very grateful we were able to get her," O'Brien said.

O'Brien noted that performers on music competitions don't have to win to start a career. Tate Stevens, a finalist on another Fox music show The X-Factor, is also performing at the Topsfield Fair this year.

Right now, Miller said it is the first time since January she has been at home relaxing, after months straight of American Idol shows and the concert tour.

“It’s work but it is not really work, it is something I love,” she said.

Right now, she is shopping original songs to different record labels.

“It’s going to be a waiting process but it will be well worth it,” she said.

This story has been updated to include an embedded video of Miller's Fox 25 interview and to add quotes from O'Brien.