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Willie Nelson announces Farm Aid

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Aug 3, 2010 Updated Aug 20, 2010

Farm Aid will celebrate its 25th Anniversary at Miller Park in Milwaukee,Wisconsin on 2nd October.

The annual non-profit event set up by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp helps raise funds to help keep family farmers in the United States on their land.

Farm Aid 25: Growing Hope For America will be headlined by its organisers including Dave Matthews with more performers to be announced.

Source: Farm Aid external link

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Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of...

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