{"id":21319,"date":"2022-09-26T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=21319"},"modified":"2022-09-26T05:41:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:41:48","slug":"farm-aid-to-march-on-d-c-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/09\/farm-aid-to-march-on-d-c-in-the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Aid To March On D.C. In The Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farm Aid concert was Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and climate change was a major theme.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founders Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp were both part of a press conference Friday night that focused on how it&#8217;s affecting small, family-run farms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/outsider.com\/entertainment\/music\/country-music\/willie-nelson-farm-aid-announces-major-farmer-mobilization-washington-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They announced plans<\/a> for a big, three-day march in D.C. next spring called &#8220;Farmers for Climate.&#8221; It&#8217;s set for the week of March 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few quick highlights from the show . . .<\/p>\n<p>1. As always, some big names were involved. On top of Willie and John, the line-up included Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, and Dave Matthews. Co-founder Neil Young wasn&#8217;t there this time because of Covid concerns.<\/p>\n<p>2. There was a big $1 million donation. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay wrote the check and gave it to John on stage before his set. They joked that it was for a very expensive backstage pass.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1573862649049321474&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Farm Aid has now raised upwards of $65 million for farmers since the first concert in 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farm Aid concert was Saturday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and climate change was a major theme.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[268,1738,971,4147,4148,1739,1740,777,661],"class_list":["post-21319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chris-stapleton","tag-dave-matthews","tag-farm-aid","tag-farmers-for-climate","tag-jim-irsay","tag-john-mellencamp","tag-neil-young","tag-sheryl-crow","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 17:05:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/09\/farm-aid-to-march-on-d-c-in-the-spring\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}