Name: Farm Aid 2023
Start: 2023-09-23
End: 2023-09-23
Location: Noblesville, Indiana

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Farm Aid is headed to Noblesville, Indiana on September 23 for the 2023 installment of the annual benefit concert held for American farmers. Farm Aid 2023 will be held at Ruoff Music Center and marks the third time that Farm Aid has brought its festival to the state of Indiana.

This year's celebrated lineup will include performances by Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson & Family, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds and Margo Price, as well as Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack, Lukas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Allison Russell, The String Cheese Incident and Particle Kid.

Farm Aid 2022 saw performances from the likes of Nelson, Mellencamp, Matthews, Price, Russell, Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Charley Crockett, Brittney Spencer, Particle Kid, the Wisdom Indian Dancers and the Red Clay Singers.

Here, we'll have all the up-to-date news on line-up announcements, the latest ticket and festival pass details, and any further exciting info and details for Farm Aid 2023. 

The idea for Farm Aid was inspired by Bob Dylan's quotes at the 1985 Live Aid benefit concert, which raised money for the Ethiopian famine. During his set, Dylan mentioned that he hoped that some of the money raised may be able to pay for the mortgages on some of the farms in the Unites States.

Shortly thereafter, fellow musicians Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young joined together to organize the Farm Aid benefit concert, which aimed to raise money for and help family farmers in America. The first concert, which hosted over 80,000 attendees and raised over $9 million, was held on September 22, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois with performances from Dylan, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and more.

Decades later, Farm Aid is still working to increase awareness of the importance of family farms, and each year brings together some of the best names in country, blues and rock for an all-day festival of music, good food and hands-on activities to get folks in touch with the roots of our food.

Since its establishment in 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $70 million for family farmers.

Tickets to Farm Aid 2023 are available to purchase at the link below:

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Willie Nelson has, undoubtedly, become one of the most iconic country artists of all time.

A celebrated and highly decorated singer, songwriter, musician, actor and activist, Nelson is often credited as one of the pioneers of the subgenre we now recognize as Outlaw Country, which developed in the late 1960s.

Growing up in central Texas, the beloved tunesmith wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band at ten.

After touring locally during high school and joining the U.S. Air Force for a short stint, Nelson worked as a DJ at radio stations in his native Texas and the Pacific Northwest. At the same time, he was busy establishing himself as a singer-songwriter.

Come 1960, he made the move to Nashville and landed a publishing contract. He quickly become an in-demand lyricist in town, scoring hits with Claude Gray's 'Family Bible', Patsy Cline's 'Crazy', Billy Walker's 'Funny How Time Slips Away' and Faron Young's 'Hello Walls', among others.

However, due to his unique singing style – which included behind-the-beat phrasing and unadorned vocals – resulted in rejection for Nelson's own attempt at being an entertainer in Nashville.

Moving back to Texas in 1972, he developed a countercultural persona, donning long hair, earrings and worn-out denim as he wrote and sang however he wanted.

After signing with Columbia Records in 1975 and gaining complete creative control over his records, he released his quintessential outlaw album, 

, which has become synonymous with the larger-than-life talent and garnered his first No. 1 single, 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'.

Also in 1975, Nelson joined forces with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser to release the iconic 

. Years later, he joined the country supergroup The Highwaymen, which included fellow singers Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson.

With a career that spans across the better part of seven decades, Nelson has been a leading force in country music, pushing musical boundaries and giving a voice to Americans far and wide. 

Earning numerous awards, including 15 Grammys, 10 CMAs and 5 ACMs, as well as twenty No. 1s and over 100 charted singles from 1962 to 1993. Over the years, he's received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1999) and the inaugural CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award (2012).

In 2015, become the first ever country artist to earn the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, which honors a living music artist’s lifetime achievement in promoting song to enhance cultural understanding; entertaining and informing audiences; and inspiring new generations.

Across his career, Nelson has been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame (1993), Songwriters Hall of Fame (2001) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2023).

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She played around town and worked on the side to support herself and her husband, guitarist Jeremy Ivey. But it would take several more years before her debut album, 2016's 

The autobiographical album wove together strains of traditional country, honky tonk, rock 'n' roll and other genres to create a stage for Price's honest lyricism and distinctive voice. 

The album soon landed on several prominent end-of-year lists and earned Price a win at the Americana Awards for Emerging Artist of the Year. 

 in 2017. That same year, she released her sophomore album, 

. In 2019, she was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys. 

arrived. Her longtime friend Sturgill Simpson served as producer. Price wrote the project while pregnant, which she's credited with influencing its subject matter and direction. 

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Singer/songwriter Margo Price heard her calling young. After attending Northern Illinois University for theater and dance, she dropped out and relocated to Nashville in 2003. 

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In his newly adopted city, he formed the indie rock band Born in the Flood, which released its debut 

As he continued playing with Born in the Flood, Rateliff began writing and recording solo music. His spare songwriting took on a darker edge, and led to his debut solo album 

Rateliff's introspective solo music earned him a loyal following, but it was his 2013 project with the Night Sweats that began garnering more attention. Backed by a larger band and playing a repertoire influenced by soul and R&B, Rateliff released his fiery, self-titled debut with the Night Sweats on the classic soul label Stax in 2015. As they toured behind it, the band quickly gained a reputation for their energetic live shows. They released their sophomore album 

in 2020. He returned with another Night Sweats album, 

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Nathaniel Rateliff grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, before moving to Denver when he turned 18 to pursue music.

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Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell was born in Montreal, where music became an outlet to escape her troubled home. 

From that early interest, Russell joined the Canadian roots act Po'Girl in the early aughts. 

Eventually, she began collaborating with her future husband, Chicago-based singer/songwriter J.T. Nero, on his project mountains/forests until the pair eventually formed their own duo, Birds of Chicago, in 2012.

They released several albums together until Birds of Chicago went on indefinite hiatus in 2021, as Russell turned her attention to her solo career with the release of her debut solo album 

Russell is also a member of Our Native Daughters, alongside Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah and Leyla McCalla. The group released their debut album, 

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For Allison, music became an outlet to escape her troubled home. 

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Lydia Farthing is a Nashville-based music journalist and Nashville native who has spent her life immersed in the music industry.

 Magazine, Provident Music Group and Aristo PR, she's always in search of the best concerts and new music, and is an avid supporter of females in the country format.

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