Farm Aid’s 1985 debut in Champaign, Illinois, headlines Sept. 22’s music milestones, alongside Bowie, the Band, Wagner and the Rolling Stones.

Challenges have combined in a storm that recalls the farm crisis four decades ago, which lead to the creation of the festival to support family farmers.

Arlo Guthrie waits to perform at the first Farm Aid concert at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on Sept. 22, 1985. Dancing in the rain at the first Farm Aid concert at Memorial Stadium in Champaign on ...

On a weekend that saw a storming Nor’easter shut down major music events throughout the New York region, some 300 miles south ...

“It was the biggest country music concert in history,” the Tribune wrote the day after the first Farm Aid on Sept. 22, 1985. “For more than 14 hours Memorial Stadium on the University of Illinois ...

Farm Aid 40 is Saturday, featuring Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and John Mellencamp. But there are many other artists in the all-star lineup. An annual fundraising event for America’s farmers, ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Farm Aid marked its historic 40th anniversary today at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, celebrating a powerful movement born from what was ...