Deadline Approaching For Farm Aid Media Credentials

BRISTOW, Va., Sept. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Farm Aid's deadline for advance media credential requests to cover its 2016 music and food festival is Thursday, Sept. 8.

All media attending the festival require Farm Aid-issued credentials, which will only be distributed to professional media and photographers. The credentialing registration form for Farm Aid 2016 may be completed on the Farm Aid website at www.farmaid.org/media. Media policies also are available for download.

Farm Aid 2016, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17, at Jiffy Lube Live, will feature performances by Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews — with Tim Reynolds — as well as Alabama Shakes, Sturgill Simpson, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Jamey Johnson, Margo Price, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Insects vs Robots and Ian Mellencamp.

Members of the media and photographers who pre-register will receive credentials on the day of the show at Jiffy Lube Live. Advance credentials cost $30. All photographers must pre-register. A limited number of credentials will be available at the venue on the day of the show — for reporters only — at a cost of $35. Information about the time and location of media credentialing, as well as parking information and a schedule of events, including the annual press conference, will be made available to pre-registered media later this week.

For event updates, follow Farm Aid on Twitter (@farmaid), Facebook (www.facebook.com/farmaid), and Instagram (Instagram.com/farmaid) and visit farmaid.org/concert. The official festival app is now available for iPhone and Android. To download the app, go to: www.farmaid.org/app.

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 farm food. Since 1985, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised more than $50 million to 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.

SOURCE Farm Aid

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