Media Alert
March 10, 2010



Hello Nashville friends of Farmer Jason!  

Farmer Jason will be featured on four pledge drive shows on Nashville Public Television
(channel 8) over the next two weeks.  The pledge shows will air all of his Emmy Award

winning interstitial videos as well as some interview spots. If you intend to pledge to NPT
(which is a good idea given the quality of their programming and support of Farmer Jason),
we ask that you do so during the Farmer Jason segments, which would directly help us.
As part of the pledge drive, NPT will be offering gifts of Farmer Jason CDs and DVDs, and
tickets to his March 27 Belcourt show. However, you can also request other pledge items
since most of you already own the Farmer Jason merchandise. Here are the scheduled
air times (all CST) for the Farmer Jason segments:


Friday, March 12, 11:30am

Saturday, March 13, 7:30am

Tuesday, March 16, 1pm

Friday, March 19, 2pm

Phone number in Nashville is 615-259-2100
Out of town number is 800-335-5310


In addition for the Farmer Jason show at the Belcourt Theater on March 27 (10:00am show),
a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the NPT March pledge drive.


Please forward this e-mail to your middle Tennessee based friends and colleagues, or
better yet, please post this information on your Facebook page.

Thank you for your help and support of Farmer Jason!

 

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