Bob Dylan will join an all-star line-up at Farm Aid 40, taking place on 20 September at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, organisers have confirmed. The legendary musician will perform alongside the festival’s board members – Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and Margo Price – as well as Kenny Chesney, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson and others.
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Dylan, who has been touring with Willie Nelson this summer as part of the Outlaw Music Festival, last appeared on the Farm Aid stage in Indiana in 2023, where he surprised the audience with an unannounced performance. Farm Aid, now celebrating four decades of campaigning for America’s independent family farmers, was in part inspired by Dylan himself. During the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia in 1985, he remarked that some of the money raised for famine relief in Africa might also be used to help struggling US farmers pay their mortgages.
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