Farmer Jason October 23, 2009

When internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Jason Ringenberg created his children’s music character “Farmer Jason” in 2003, he had no idea he was launching what would prove to be the most commercially successful creation of his storied career. With Jason and the Scorchers, he pioneered a fusion of punk rock and country that turned the music world on its ear in the mid-1980s. Jason went solo in 1999, with a stylistically free-ranging sound that extended from high energy punk rock to spaced-out jazz; the London Times called him “one of the most dynamic live performers of his generation.” To give his young daughters something to listen to while he was away on tour, in 2003 Jason recorded his first “Farmer Jason” CD, A Day at the Farm with Farmer Jason, based on his own roots as a farming man. To Jason’s surprise, the album’s popularity soared, and Disney’s magazine Family Fun called it “one of the top 5 kids’ CDs of 2003.” Farmer Jason was soon drawing sell-out crowds from Osh Kosh to Oslo doing children’s concerts in venues ranging from schools and libraries to punk rock clubs. His latest album is entitled Rockin’ in the Forest with Farmer Jason which maintains one of Jason’s primary goals: “that a children’s CD could successfully entertain and educate children, without making their parents want to blow up the stereo!”

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