Diverse Artists to Join Performance Line-Up for SEIU Labor Day Festival to Raise Concerns of Working Men and Women.

ST. PAUL, MN—Hip Hop acts Lupe Fiasco and Atmosphere, actor/ musician Mos Def and British rocker Billy Bragg are joining the line-up at the Service Employees International Union's (SEIU) Take Back Labor Day Festival at the foot of the Republican National Convention.

On Sept. 1 from noon to 7 p.m. at Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul, Minn., the musicians will share the stage with already-announced performing artists Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, and Tom Morello & friends. The Take Back Labor Day Festival, sponsored by SEIU, will include a concert, a You Tube station, a children's area, and a large audience-participation art project.  Joining the performers will be SEIU leaders Andy Stern and Anna Burger and other special guests.

The festival will both celebrate workers' achievements and promote a New Vision for the 21st Century that includes:
 

-Affordable, quality healthcare for everyone;

-Wages that can support families;

-Freedom to join unions without intimidation;

-Retirement security.

Tickets for the Labor Day celebration are now available for $10 through all Ticketmaster outlets.

The Labor Day concert and festival will mark the end of a three-state Labor Day Tour from August 29-31 that will offer journalists three days of interviews and discussions with working men and women from across the U.S. and at stops along the way.

The concert website is now live: Go to www.takebacklaborday.com for updated information.

About the Artists:

    * Allison Moorer is an Academy Award and Grammy Award nominated singer songwriter whose 2008 album, Mockingbird, was released to critical acclaim.

    * Atmosphere is a Hip-Hop duo from Minneapolis comprised of members Slug and Ant. Since joining forces 11 years ago they've release six albums and participated in a a variety of side-projects. They recently released the album When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold.

    * Billy Bragg is a British rocker and Grammy-nominated folk musician who has been called "England's troubadour" and "a national treasure." Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora chose Bragg to set new music to unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics, recorded with Wilco on the album, Mermaid Avenue.

    * Lupe Fiasco, a trail-blazing Hip-Hop artist, has earned three Grammy nods, four BET Hip Hop Award nominations, and recognition as GQ's "Breakout Man of the Year." since taking the music world by storm in 2006.  His second album, "The Cool," was released in December 2007 and met popular and critical acclaim. 

    * Mos Def is an actor and Grammy-nominated musician who was most recently seen alongside Jack Black in the film Be Kind Rewind. He has previously released 5 rap albums, and he is renowned for helping to popularize a style of Hip-Hop that stresses socially conscious themes.

    * Steve Earle's Washington Square Serenade in late 2007 earned him his second Grammy Award. He hosts the Sirius Satellite Radio program Hardcore Troubadour Radio, and he was recently featured in the HBO series The Wire.

    * Tom Morello recently launched The Justice Tour, a nationwide concert tour to benefit a local charity at each stop, and he also spent a day as a child care provider working with SEIU members. He appears with Bruce Springsteen on a new live EP performing "Ghost of Tom Joad."  His solo album, The Fabled City, will be released this September.