Farm Aid: Family Farmers, Good Food, A Better America
Farm Aid is returning to Saratoga Springs, New York for its annual benefit concert on September 21. Neil Young, Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Presale tickets will be available on farmaid.org for members only on Tuesday, June 18 at noon EDT. If you would like to become a member, the membership form will be available along with the presage ticket on June 18.
General admission tickets will be available on Friday, June 28 at 10 a.m. EDT.To purchase general admission tickets, please visit www.livenation.com or www.ticketmaster.com. For more information on the venue, please visit www.SPAC.org
This will be Farm Aid's first time returning to New York since September 2007. Farm Aid's annual concert series seeks to benefit family farmers across America.
“We all see what's happening with agriculture, what's happening to our small towns. They are going out of business. That's a direct result of the farm problem. We're still doing Farm Aid because it is contributing. It's doing a job.”
– John Mellencamp, co-founder of Farm Aid
ABOUT FARM AID:
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid Board of Directors in 2001. Farm Aid has raised more than $43 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture. Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land.
via Farm Aid
