Against The Grain – Artists and Activists Season | Episode 2 — Activist Storytelling

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In this second episode of Against the Grain's series on Artists and Activism, we carry on from last episode's focus on the folk singing tradition to explore the ways artists use their storytelling skills and platforms to engage with important social and political issues. We'll hear from Steve Duncombe, co-founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, who helps us understand how artists use storytelling to tap into emotion – a visceral response that moves listeners to act. And then we talk to a power trio of women artists for whom storytelling is central to their art and politics: Farm Aid board artist Margo Price, Kyshona and Tami Neilson.

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Against the Grain is the Farm Aid podcast, designed to bring the magic of Farm Aid’s annual festival to listeners year-round. Hear from farmers and artists, advocates and food experts, activists and policymakers – all of whom are working towards building a more just and equitable farm and food system.

We’ll take you all over the country, from Farm Aid’s backstage and HOMEGROWN Village, to rural and urban farms and farmers’ markets. There, you’ll meet the extraordinary members of the Farm Aid universe, fighting the industrial agriculture giants, holding the government accountable, and shifting the culture towards a food and farm model that is better for farmers, our soil, water and climate and for all of us.

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Farm Aid’s mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Margo Price host an annual festival to raise funds to support Farm Aid’s work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. For nearly 40 years, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised more than $80 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.