{"id":2031251,"date":"2025-09-18T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2031251"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:06:13","slug":"bob-dylan-to-perform-at-farm-aid-festival-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bob-dylan-to-perform-at-farm-aid-festival-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan to perform at Farm Aid festival this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Bob Dylan will perform at the annual Farm Aid festival<\/a> this Saturday, announced the organization, which raises funds to help farmers in need.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll be among a number of stars at the music festival, including Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and more. He last played at Farm Aid in 2023.<\/p>\n

The festival is the primary source of funding to support \u201cyear-round work with and for family farmers,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n

Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $85 million to support programs that help farmers, according to the organization\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n

Dylan, whose songs famously tackled social issues such as inequality and war, has always been part of the DNA of Farm Aid. The festival\u2019s origins date back to a quip Dylan made<\/a> at a Live Aid benefit concert.<\/p>\n

At the time, Ethiopia was stricken by drought, prompting a movement to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for relief \u2013 backed by stars like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

While on stage, Dylan used the opportunity to highlight an ongoing crisis within the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that some of the money that\u2019s raised for the people in Africa,\u201d Dylan said. \u201cMaybe they can just take a little bit of it, one or two million, and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms that the farmers here owe to the banks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crop prices were crashing in 1985, with bank foreclosures wiping out family farms at alarming rates and pushing farmer suicides to record levels. When Dylan gave a shoutout to those who grow the food that ends famines, it struck Nelson \u2013 a former cotton-picker turned country superstar.<\/p>\n

Before long, Nelson was on the phone with Young and Mellencamp, and Farm Aid was born. With a handful of exceptions, it\u2019s been held annually ever since.<\/p>\n

The politics around farming are even more contentious these days, with age-old problems remaining and new ones getting worse \u2013 including extreme weather that\u2019s becoming increasingly unpredictable thanks to climate change, and a volatile market subject to trade wars and tariffs.<\/p>\n

celebrity.land will be the exclusive television broadcast partner of Farm Aid 40, which is scheduled for September 20 at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

celebrity.land Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir will provide on-the-ground reporting, while John Berman and Laura Coates will co-anchor the coverage.<\/p>\n

For more celebrity.land news and newsletters create an account at celebrity.land.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan will perform at the annual Farm Aid festival this Saturday, announced the organization, which raises funds to help farmers in need. He\u2019ll be among a number of stars at the music festival, including Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and more. He last played at Farm Aid in 2023. The festival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[29332,363037,374653,361491,311076,27108,32187,22640],"class_list":["post-2031251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bob-dylan","tag-dave-matthews","tag-family-farmers","tag-farm-aid","tag-john-mellencamp","tag-music-festival","tag-neil-young","tag-willie-nelson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bob-Dylan-to-perform-at-Farm-Aid-festival-this-weekend.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}