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On July 13, 1985, before performing "When The Ship Comes In" with Keith Richards and Ron Wood at the Live Aid benefit concert for the 1983–1985 Ethiopian famine, Bob Dylan remarked about family farmers within the United States in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt, saying to the worldwide audience exceeding one billion people, "I hope that some of the money ... maybe they can ...
His latest album of original songs, Orpheus Descending, was released in June 2023. [ 4 ] Mellencamp is also one of the founding members of Farm Aid , an organization that began in 1985 with a concert in Champaign, Illinois to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land.
Petra was the only Christian band to play at the 1992 Farm Aid concert and the first Christian band to be included in the Hard Rock Cafe. [11] In 2000, Petra was the first Christian rock band to be inducted to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame .
Farm Aid was also held at the city’s RCA Dome in 1990 and featured a stacked lineup of Guns N’ Roses, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Crosby Stills & Nash, Lou Reed, and Iggy Pop, among many others.
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The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
"Not ready to tour," Young recently wrote to fans. "Covid is real danger. Long covid? No thanks. Expose my son to big crowds. No."