Bob Dylan to perform at Farm Aid festival this weekend<br/>Bob Dylan will perform at the annual Farm Aid festival this Saturday, announced the organization, which raises funds to help farmers in need.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/><img src="https://plus.unsplash.com/premium_photo-1700672863651-b779f659987f?ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MXx8cnV0b3IlMjAlRDElODQlRDAlQkUlRDElODAlRDElODMlRDAlQkN8ZW58MHx8fHwxNzYxMDUxNjcwfDA\u0026ixlib=rb-4.1.0">The festival is the primary source of funding to support "year-round work with and for family farmers," according to its website.<br/><br/>Since 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $85 million to support programs that help farmers, according to the organization’s press release.<br/><br/>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 a quip Dylan made at a Live Aid benefit concert.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>While on stage, Dylan used the opportunity to highlight an ongoing crisis within the US.<br/><br/>Related article<br/>Ron Wood, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards at the JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the Live Aid Concert on July 13, 1985.<br/>How a Bob Dylan moment 40 years ago sparked decades of pop philanthropy<br/><br/>"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."<br/><br/>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 <a href="https://data.gov.uk/data/search?q=country%20superstar">country superstar</a>.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>The politics around farming are even more contentious these days, with age-old problems <a href="https://realitysandwich.com/_search/?search=remaining">remaining</a> 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.<br/><br/>CNN will be the exclusive television broadcast partner of Farm Aid 40, which is scheduled for September 20 at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.<br/><br/>CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir will provide on-the-ground reporting, while John Berman and  <a href="https://rutorcoolfldlmrpalkmfklw3nyzad6b6fycdtof3xbnixkerr47udyd.net">рутор форум</a> Laura Coates will co-anchor the coverage.

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