Farm Aid brought its all-star benefit concert to support family farmers to the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin, US. A state at the center of a deepening farm crisis, where an estimated three dairy farms a day are closing.
“You can get angry, you can get sad or you can get active,” says Julie Keown-Bomar, executive director of the Wisconsin Farmers Union.
Farm Aid founder Willie Nelson (86) is a national hero. He created Farm Aid in 1985 amid a foreclosure crisis that was throwing farm families off their land, and this event is now the longest running concert for a cause a model of music activism and artist commitment for the long haul.