Deadline Extended For Advance Farm Aid Media Credentials

Kansas City, Kan. (Top40 Charts/ Farm Aid Official Website) Farm Aid has extended the deadline to August 5 for media and photographers to request advance credentials for its 2011 benefit concert, scheduled for August 13, at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan.

Farm Aid 2011 will feature Farm Aid president and founder Willie Nelson, along with board members John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews. Other artists to perform include Jason Mraz, Jamey Johnson, Jakob Dylan, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Will Dailey & the Rivals, Robert Francis, Rebecca Pidgeon, Billy Joe Shaver and John Trudell.

Members of the media and photographers that preregister will receive credentials on August 13 at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. Advance credentials cost $30. Credentials will also be available at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park on the day of the show for $35. Information about the time and location of media credentialing, as well as a schedule of events and parking information will be made available to preregistered media the week prior to the show.

Information about the credentialing process, including credential request forms and media policies, may be downloaded directly from the Farm Aid website at www.farmaid.org/media . For updates about this year's events in Kansas City, visit www.farmaid.org, "like" Farm Aid at Facebook.com/farmaid and "follow" us at Twitter.com/farmaid.

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 $39 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.