It was four decades ago that Bob Dylan took the stage and mused about the need to support American farmers. “I hope that some of the money that’s raised for the people in Africa,” he said during a performance at Live Aid, the 1985 benefit concert to raise relief funds for famine in Ethiopia, “maybe they can just take a …
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Bob Dylan will come home again, this time to perform at Farm Aid 40 on Saturday in Minneapolis. The Minnesota native — who not only owns a farm in his home state but gave the speech that sparked Willie Nelson to found Farm Aid — confirmed Wednesday that he will join the 40th anniversary lineup at Huntington Bank Stadium on …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp are back for the 40th annual Farm Aid festival. For the first time, Farm Aid, a nonprofit agricultural organization, will bring its annual music and food festival to Minneapolis. Board members Nelson, Young, Mellencamp, Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds) and Margo Price are headlining the festival. Wynona Judd and …
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Perennial political candidate Willie Wilson encouraged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to send the National Guard to Chicago, insisting that a military intervention could help curb violence while invoking the killing of his son in the south suburbs. “It’s personal for me, from personal loss,” Wilson said at a news conference in the Loop. “But also personal for me as …
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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – The Rams are still following a day-to-day approach with Matthew Stafford (back), but the quarterback is trending in a “positive direction” after practicing two consecutive days, according to head coach Sean McVay. Just as he did Monday, Stafford participated in both individual and team drills in Tuesday’s practice. McVay said Stafford “looked good” Tuesday and “better …
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The Outlaw Music Festival began nine years back as a single event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Chris Robinson, and Lee Ann Womack. It’s slowly morphed into a traveling fest that brings Nelson and a rotating cast of top-grade support acts to amphitheaters across America every summer, and they leveled up significantly last year by …
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