{"id":5347,"date":"2015-09-15T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2015-09-15T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:10:28","slug":"sept-17-farm-aid-30-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=5347","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 17 Farm Aid 30 Preview Event Taking Place on Daley Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<p>On Thursday, Sept. 17, Farm Aid will invite media and the public to Daley Plaza, located directly in front of the Richard J. Daley center, for a preview event of Saturday\u2019s all-day music and food festival celebrating 30 years of family farmers. During the preview event, media attending will have the chance to interview farmers and vendors participating in the HOMEGROWN Village and sample HOMEGROWN Concessions\u00ae menu items, including vegetarian nachos, giant soft pretzels and portobello burgers. Farm Aid\u2019s HOMEGROWN Concessions\u00ae brings family farm food center stage, showcasing local, organic, sustainable, humanely-raised family farm ingredients. Media also will be able to listen to good music from Chicago band and farm enthusiasts The Giving Tree Band and capture the excitement as the production for Farm Aid 30 comes together. The Thursday preview event is also open to the public. During the preview event, Farm Aid will host a Farm Aid 30 ticket giveaway. Farm Aid 30 will take place at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT: <\/strong>Farm Aid 30 Preview Event and Concert<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN: <\/strong>Thursday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m. CDT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Media availability begins at 11 a.m.<\/li>\n<li>The Giving Tree Band performs at 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.<i>(tentative)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Giving Tree Band<\/li>\n<li>Representatives from Legends Hospitality responsible for coordinating HOMEGROWN Concessions\u00ae at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island<\/li>\n<li>Concessionaires Hewn Bakery and Bella Beez<\/li>\n<li>Exhibitors in Farm Aid\u2019s HOMEGROWN Village, including WestSide Bee Boyz doing a beekeeping demonstration<\/li>\n<li>Caroline Malcolm, Farm Aid\u2019s HOMEGROWN Village coordinator<\/li>\n<li>Local Illinois farmers<\/li>\n<li>Glenda Yoder and Sonya Dagovitz, Farm Aid staff responsible for sourcing HOMEGROWN Concessions\u00ae<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>VISUALS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farmall tractor parked at Daley Plaza<\/li>\n<li>The Giving Tree Band performing live<\/li>\n<li>HOMEGROWN Concessions\u00ae chefs preparing food<\/li>\n<li>Homegrown Village skillshares and exhibits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong> Daley Plaza, 50 W Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Sept. 17, Farm Aid will invite media and the public to Daley Plaza, located directly in front of the Richard J. Daley center, for a preview event of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39,42],"tags":[204,188,187,205],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-music-news","category-this-just-in","tag-daley-plaza","tag-farm-aid","tag-farm-aid-30","tag-the-giving-tree-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}