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November 30, 2009

FARMER JASON EARNS SECOND EMMY NOMINATION

Jason Ringenberg’s Alter Ego Nominated for Best Children’s Program in Mid South Region

Nashville, TN—Farmer Jason, also known around the world as Jason Ringenberg from acclaimed punk/rock/country band Jason & The Scorchers, has earned his second Emmy nomination for Best Children’s Program Mid South Region. The nominations were announced at a reception at BMI headquarters in Nashville last week. Farmer Jason earned his first Emmy award last year for some of the videos that appeared on Nashville Public Television and other PBS stations as interstitials airing between their full length shows. Included in his recent DVD release, It’s a…….Farmer Jason!, the videos teach lessons about ecology, appreciating nature, and enjoying the great outdoors using songs from the two Farmer Jason cds.

“I am humbled and honored to receive another Emmy nomination," said Ringenberg. "We will definitely make room for another statue on our mantle if we win it again!”

About Farmer Jason

Farmer Jason is the family music character created by alt-country legend and 30 year entertainment industry veteran Jason Ringenberg. As the front man and founder of Jason and the Scorchers, Ringenberg was the original pioneer in the movement that combined traditional American roots music with modern punk rock. The first two Jason and the Scorchers records regularly turn up on critics’ Best of the 80’s lists, and they have an exhibit dedicated to them in the Country Music Hall of Fame. They received the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance in 2008. With Jason and the Scorchers and as a solo artist he has released 14 major records and performed over 3000 shows.

In 2003, Ringenberg decided to record a children’s cd called A DAY AT THE FARM WITH FARMER JASON solely for his young daughters to listen to. Filled with hilariously catchy songs about guitar pickin’ chickens and rock ‘n’ roll tractors, the peak of his ambition for it was to hear his daughters singing along. To his surprise, the cd became a family music hit that year and LOTS of little sons and daughters were singing along! Soon Farmer Jason was doing concerts all over the world. ROCKIN’ IN THE FOREST WITH FARMER JASON (Warner Brothers) followed in 2006. In 2008, in partnership with Nashville Public Television, Jason created an educational video program called IT’S A FARMER JASON which won an Emmy Award and now airs on several PBS stations around the US. A dvd featuring the program was released in 2009.

Farmer Jason also writes a column about eco friendly farm and gardening issues for the Tennessee organic food magazine LOCAL TABLE called ASK FARMER JASON. For more information on that, please visit www.localtable.com

Having been born and raised on an Illinois hog farm that bordered the Rock Island Line, he now lives with his wife Suzy, their three daughters, and a menagerie of animals on a small farm in rural Tennessee.

For more information, please visit www.farmerjason.com