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ARTICLE VIEW:
Bob Dylan to perform at Farm Aid festival this weekend
By Jessie Yeung, Bill Weir, CNN
Updated:
9:23 PM EDT, Wed September 17, 2025
Source: CNN
Bob Dylan will perform at the annual this Saturday, announced the
organization, which raises funds to help farmers in need.
He’ll 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 is the primary source of funding to support “year-round
work with and for family farmers,” according to its website.
Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $85 million to support
programs that help farmers, according to the organization’s press
release.
Dylan, whose songs famously tackled social issues such as inequality
and war, has always been part of the DNA of Farm Aid. The festival’s
origins date back to at a Live Aid benefit concert.
At the time, Ethiopia was stricken by drought, prompting a movement to
raise hundreds of millions of dollars for relief – backed by stars
like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson.
While on stage, Dylan used the opportunity to highlight an ongoing
crisis within the US.
“I hope that some of the money that’s raised for the people in
Africa,” Dylan said. “Maybe 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.”
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 – a former cotton-picker turned country
superstar.
Before long, Nelson was on the phone with Young and Mellencamp, and
Farm Aid was born. With a handful of exceptions, it’s been held
annually ever since.
The politics around farming are even more contentious these days, with
age-old problems remaining and new ones getting worse – including
extreme weather that’s becoming increasingly unpredictable thanks to
climate change, and a volatile market subject to trade wars and
tariffs.
CNN will be the exclusive television broadcast partner of Farm Aid 40,
which is scheduled for September 20 at Huntington Bank Stadium in
Minneapolis.
CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir will provide on-the-ground
reporting, while John Berman and Laura Coates will co-anchor the
coverage.
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