Willie Nelson will bring Farm Aid to Minnesota for the first time on Sept. 20 at Huntington Bank Stadium.

Tickets are priced from $390 to $101 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday via farmaid40.org.

Now in its 40th year, Farm Aid is a nonprofit annual festival that has raised more than $85 million to support family farms, promote sustainable agriculture and strengthen rural communities.

The lineup includes Farm Aid board members Nelson, Neil Young (and the Chrome Hearts), John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds) and Margo Price along with Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Trampled by Turtles, Waxahatchee, Eric Burton of Black Pumas, Jesse Welles and Madeline Edwards. Additional artists will be announced for the festival, which is expected to run more than 11 hours.

Bob Dylan inadvertently inspired the creation of Farm Aid when he played 1985’s Live Aid and said from the stage that organizers should consider using some portion of the proceeds to help American farmers. Nelson, Mellencamp and Young took Dylan’s advice and staged the first Farm Aid just two months after Live Aid, raising $9 million in the process.

Initially planned as a one-off, Nelson and his fellow musicians turned Farm Aid into an annual event.

In addition to the music, Farm Aid features family farm-sourced concessions and a stage for farmers and artists to talk about farming issues, present demonstrations on agrarian skills and celebrate the culture of agriculture.

“Family farmers are the heart of this country, and we depend on each other for good food and strong communities,” Nelson said in a news release. “For 40 years, Farm Aid and our partners have stood with farmers, supporting them to stay on their land even when corporate power, bad policies and broken promises make it harder to keep going. This year, we’re proud to bring Farm Aid to Minnesota to celebrate the farmers who sustain us and to fight for a food system that works for all of us. Family farmers aren’t backing down, and neither are we.”

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