Farm Aid
date: label: date made
content: 1985
notes: label: Description
content: This program, with a design reminiscent of “The Farmer’s Almanac,” was printed for the first Farm Aid concert, which took place in Champaign, Illinois, on September 22, 1985. Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp organized the benefit concert to aid American family farmers during a time of great distress for farm families. The creation of Farm Aid belonged to an era of high-profile benefit concerts, with the July 1985 Live Aid concert, which raised funds in response to the famine in Ethiopia, inspiring Nelson and his colleagues. Farm Aid has since grown into a nonprofit working to support farmers and to encourage consumers to appreciate the ecosystems that bring food to their tables, and the organization is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Champaign
label: Associated Place
content: China
topic: label: referenced
content: Philanthropy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Philanthropy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Farm Aid
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0303.01
label: accession number
content: 2017.0303
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0303.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: program
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29 cm x 22 cm x .26 cm; 11 13/32 in x 8 21/32 in x 3/32 in