{"id":29975,"date":"2024-07-23T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/neil-young-john-mellencamp-more-to-headline-farm-aid-in-saratoga-new-york\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:02:28","slug":"neil-young-john-mellencamp-more-to-headline-farm-aid-in-saratoga-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/neil-young-john-mellencamp-more-to-headline-farm-aid-in-saratoga-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young, John Mellencamp &amp; more to headline Farm Aid in Saratoga, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-23\/Getty_Farmaid_072324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>L-R: Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp\/ Ebet Roberts\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Farm Aid is returning to New York for the first time in 11 years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The annual concert benefiting farmers across the country will take place Sept. 21 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, New York, with a lineup that includes Farm Aid board members <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>, <strong>John Mellencamp<\/strong>, <strong>Willie Nelson<\/strong> and <strong>Dave Matthews<\/strong> with <strong>Tim Reynolds<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe\u2019re energized to be back in New York,&#8221; Nelson, Farm Aid&#8217;s president and founder, shares. &#8220;The farmers here have always found ways to innovate and contribute to their communities, even as they deal with uncertainties, extreme weather and policies that favor corporations over people. Farmers need us to stand with them as they work to grow our future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also performing at the annual event will be <strong>Mavis Staples<\/strong>, <strong>Nathaniel Rateliff &amp; The Night Sweats<\/strong>, <strong>Lukas Nelson<\/strong> with <strong>The Travelin\u2019 McCourys<\/strong>, <strong>Charley Crockett<\/strong>, <strong>Joy Oladokun<\/strong>, <strong>Southern Avenue<\/strong>, <strong>Cassandra Lewis<\/strong> and <strong>Jesse Welles<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A limited number of presale tickets go on sale starting Wednesday at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. More information can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmaid.org\/festival\/about-the-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>farmaid.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This will be the third time Farm Aid has been held in New York, and the second time in Saratoga. The last time\u00a0it was\u00a0in Saratoga was in 2013.\u00a0<\/span>The first New York Farm Aid happened in 2007 at Randall\u2019s Island in New York City. Last year\u2019s festival was held in Noblesville, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The very first Farm Aid concert was held in September 1985 in Champaign, Illinois, to raise funds to support family farmers. Since its inception, the annual festival has raised more than $80 million to support programs helping the farming community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L-R: Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp\/ Ebet Roberts\/Redferns Farm Aid is returning to New York for the first time in 11 years.\u00a0 The annual concert benefiting farmers across the country will take place Sept. 21 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, New York, with a lineup<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/neil-young-john-mellencamp-more-to-headline-farm-aid-in-saratoga-new-york\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}