Kacey Musgraves will be among the artists performing at this year’s 30th anniversary of Farm Aid, taking place in Chicago on September 19th. She will join Farm Aid organizers Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews, along with Jack Johnson, Imagine Dragons, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mavis Staples, Holly Williams, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Insects vs. Robots (featuring Willie Nelson’s son Micah) and Blackwood Quartet.
The event’s 30th anniversary marks the return of Farm Aid to the state of Illinois, where it is schedued to take place at the First Merit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, near downtown Chicago. The inaugural event took place in Champaign, Illinois in 1985.
Willie Nelson said, “We organized the first Farm Aid concert in Illinois in 1985 to respond to the people suffering during the farm crisis. Thirty years later, in Chicago, we’ll bring together so many of the people — farmers, eaters, advocates and activists — who have made the progress of the Good Food Movement possible. At Farm Aid 30, we’ll celebrate the impact we’ve had and rally our supporters for the work ahead.”
Tickets for Farm Aid will go on sale on Monday (August 3rd) at 10 a.m. CT at farmaid.org.
FAST FACTS
- Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on the land. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid Board of Directors in 2001.
- Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised almost $48 million for farmers all over the country.
(The Pulse of Radio)
