Farm Aid Announces Additional Artists to Join First-Ever NYC Concert Event

Farm Aid Announces Additional Artists to Join First-Ever NYC Concert Event

Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Danielle Evin and Others to Join Farm Aid Stage

SOMERVILLE, Mass., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Setting the stage for a unique concert experience, Farm Aid today announced additional artists to round out the concert lineup at Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival, Sunday, September 9 at Randall's Island in New York City.

Joining the already stellar lineup of Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers Band, Counting Crows, Matisyahu, Guster, The Derek Trucks Band, Warren Haynes, Supersuckers, The Ditty Bops, Montgomery Gentry will be Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Danielle Evin, Jesse Lenat, Jimmy Sturr, Pauline Reese, Billy Joe Shaver, and Paula Nelson.

In addition to featuring a full day of music, the Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival will showcase -- for the first time at a major concert event -- an abundance of family farm food vendors, serving local, organic, humanely-raised and family farmed food. There will also be hands-on, interactive exhibits with farmers and activists that inspire living a homegrown life.

Tickets for Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at http://www.ticketmaster.com/, or by calling (212) 307-7171, (631) 888-9000 or (203) 624-0033. Ticket prices are $52 for general admission, $102 for reserved seats and $302 for VIP reserved seats. The VIP package includes catering in an exclusive area and other amenities.

Farm Aid fans also have the chance to win front row seats, airfare and hotel accommodations for Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival at http://www.topofthehaystack.com/.

Farm Aid founder Willie Nelson will perform at the Hard Rock International's Ambassadors of Rock event at the Hard Rock Cafe New York in Times Square on Monday, September 10 to promote sustainable biodiesel practices, including harvesting, production and distribution of biodiesel fuels. For more information, visit http://www.hardrock.com/.

Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival is sponsored by Silk Soymilk, Horizon Organic, Fields Family Foundation, Chipotle, Whole Foods Market, Chevy, Organic Trade Association, New Hope Natural Media, Clif Bar, Organic Valley Family of Farms, Niman Ranch and Annie's Homegrown.

The most efficient way to get to Randall's Island is to catch the ferry, bus or train. For bus and train information visit http://www.mta.info/nyct or call (718) 330-1234. For ferry information visit http://www.nywaterway.com/event/randalls.shtml or call 1-800-53-FERRY.

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 over $30 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the current system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.

Source: Farm Aid

CONTACT: Brandi Dobbins, +1-202-331-4323, bdobbins@vancomm.com, for Farm
Aid

Web site:

http://www.farmaid.org/
http://www.topofthehaystack.com/

NOTE TO EDITORS: Credentials are required for all media to attend Farm Aid 2007: A HOMEGROWN Festival. Please visit www.farmaid.org/media for information about obtaining press credentials. To download photos from previous Farm Aid benefit concerts, visit www.farmaid.org/media

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