Farm Aid is turning 30 this year, and to commemorate the anniversary, the music festival will take place in its founding state of Illinois in Chicago's First Merit Bank Pavillion on Sept. 19. The concert will feature performances from the likes of Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The show will also include acts from Jack Johnson, Imagine Dragons, Kacey Musgraves, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mavis Staples, Holly Williams, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, Insects vs. Robots and Blackwood Quartet.
"We organized the first Farm Aid concert in Illinois in 1985 to respond to the people suffering during the Farm Crisis," Farm Aid President and Founder Willie Nelson said in a statement. "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," according to Rolling Stone.
Nelson says the event will "celebrate the impact we've had and rally our supporters for the work ahead." Since Farm Aid's inaugral show, which took place at the Memorial Stadium in Champaign in 1985, it has raised $48 million for programs that support farmers. The organization conducts meetings with family farmers and farm advocates before the show to learn about the difficulties they face, according to Fox News.
