For more than three decades, the multi-artist event has been singularly focused on a piece of American life that holds at least part of the answer to the climate crisis — family farming.

News. Willie Nelson ‘shook this country to its senses’ to help family farmers, rural Texas The music legend receives the LBJ Foundation’s highest award for Farm Aid gigs and advocacy to help ...

Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Margo Price and Dave Matthews applaud farmers at a gathering before the start of Farm Aid at Raleigh, N.C.’s Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek ...

Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid, the longest running concert for a cause, will mark the 40th anniversary of its advocacy for family farmers with an all-star festival on Sept. 20 at Huntington Bank ...

Willie Nelson should rightly receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his 25 years of work with Farm Aid, says John Mellencamp. "It is very important we point out that I think Willie should get Nobel ...

With his annual Farm Aid concert scheduled just a couple of weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the organization's president, Willie Nelson, and Farm Aid organizers were faced ...

Willie Nelson tosses his hat into the crowd after the finale at Farm Aid at Raleigh, N.C.’s Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022.

Country music legend Willie Nelson during a stop to promote the announcement of Farm Aid concert at SPAC in September on Thursday June 13, 2013 in Colonie, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union ...

But Willie insisted on making the farm crisis a national conversation. In 1985, Nelson recognized the dire state of American agriculture, and launched Farm Aid .

That music festival and advocacy group has raised more than $70 million toward its goal of promoting "a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture," according to the Farm Aid website.

Willie Nelson has been hosting Farm Aid for almost 40 years. Now considered the longest-running concert for a cause, the event this year was headlined by Nelson in Saratoga Springs, New York ...

Willie Nelson's Farm Aid has named new co-executive directors of the organization. Shorlette Ammons and Jennifer Fahy will lead it effective Jan. 1.