Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Jason Mraz, Wilco to perform at Farm Aid

|
|
 
  
Musician Jason Mraz arrives at the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute honoring Neil Diamond in Los Angeles on February 6, 2009. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen) 
License photo
Published: July 21, 2009 at 3:23 PM

ST. LOUIS, July 21 (UPI) -- Jason Mraz, Wilco, Jamey Johnson and Phosphorescent have joined the lineup of Farm Aid 2009 in Missouri, organizers said Tuesday.

The event is slated to take place Oct. 4 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, a suburb of St. Louis.

The recording artists are to join Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, who will perform with Tim Reynolds, at the concert and fundraiser.

"We're looking forward to welcoming Jason Mraz and Phosphorescent to the Farm Aid family and having Wilco and Jamey Johnson back to Farm Aid this year," Carolyn Mugar, executive director of Farm Aid, said in a statement. "Every year, artists and bands donate their time to perform on the Farm Aid stage, raising funds and awareness about the critical contributions family farmers make to our country."

Topics: Dave Matthews, Jamey Johnson, Jason Mraz, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Willie Nelson
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Protesters, police clash at NATO summit Notable deaths of 2012 2012 Billboard Music Awards
The 137th Preakness Stakes Annual Solar eclipse occurs in U.S. Chen Guangcheng arrives in the U.S.
Additional Entertainment News Stories
1 of 29
Members of the Army's Old Guard place flags at Arlington National Ceremtery
View Caption
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
fark
Maine soft-shell lobsters are in early this year. Marine biologists require more clarified butter...
The Death List: Cars that aren't coming back for 2013. Subby will sob for Saab, the rest shall not...
Come listen to a story about a man named John / A poor farmer, barely kept his family fed / Then...
Reporter shows up too late to cover a sandstorm, tries to recreate it
How to be #1 SUPER-PATRIOT. USA USA USA USA
If you don't like these amusing examples of passive aggressive behavior, than you can kindly piss...