Published: July 30, 2010

Farm Aid's Nelson, Mellencamp to Reveal Details About Organization's 25th Anniversary Benefit Concert

Share With Friends

MILWAUKEE, July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Monday, August 2, at 11 a.m. CDT Farm Aid co-founders Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp will reveal details about the organization's 25th anniversary celebration during a live webcast at www.farmaid.org/25. Farm Aid is inviting farmers, friends and the media to participate in the event. This week, Nelson announced that the organization will mark its 25th anniversary with a concert event, "Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for America," in Milwaukee on October 2 -- the first time the concert will be staged in Wisconsin.


              Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope for
    WHAT:     America Live Webcast
              Willie Nelson and John
              Mellencamp, co-founders, Farm
    WHO:      Aid
              Carolyn Mugar, executive
              director, Farm Aid
    WHEN:    Monday, August 2, 2010
             11:00 a.m. CDT
    WHERE:                  www.farmaid.org/25

Farm Aid's mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews host an annual concert to raise funds to support Farm Aid's work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family-farmed food. Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $37 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms. Visit www.farmaid.org/25 and follow Farm Aid at www.twitter.com/farmaid for anniversary updates.

SOURCE Farm Aid