The event returns to New York for the third year
The 2024 edition of Farm Aid is set to return to New York for the third year. The annual event will take place on Saturday, September 21st at the Broadview Stage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York. The daylong festival will showcase how farmers are leading the way to mitigate climate change by sharing their stories on the Farm Aid stage and throughout the event.
Farm Aid 2024 will reunite family farmers and musician activists, with performances by Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds), as well as Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson with The Travelin’ McCourys, Charley Crockett, Joy Oladokun, Southern Avenue, Cassandra Lewis and Jesse Welles, with more artists to be announced.
“We’re energized to be back in New York,” Nelson says. “The farmers here have always found ways to innovate and contribute to their communities, even as they deal with uncertainties, extreme weather and policies that favor corporations over people. Farmers need us to stand with them as they work to grow our future.”
A limited number of presale tickets will be available beginning at on Wednesday, July 24th at 10 am EDT ahead of the general sale on Friday, July 26th at 10 am EDT via Ticketmaster.
Each Farm Aid festival features HomeGrown Concessions, the first-of-its-kind model for featuring family farm-identified, local and organic foods at major concert events. HomeGrown Concessions has fed more than 283,000 festivalgoers since its introduction in 2007 at the HomeGrown Festival at Randall’s Island in New York City. It has served as a model for entertainment events, including the Super Bowl and a variety of music festivals and venues that have embraced the Good Food Movement in concessions. Backstage, artists and crew enjoy HomeGrown Catering with the same family farm standards, using compostable service products and promoting composting to festivalgoers and artists with a goal of zero waste.
The HomeGrown Village mini-festival within a festival returns. In the Village, festivalgoers explore hands-on activities that engage all of their senses in the Farm Aid mission. Hear farmers and artists talk together about pressing issues on the FarmYard Stage, attend demonstrations to learn agrarian skills and celebrate the culture of agriculture in the HomeGrown Skills tent, connect with farmers and organizations doing critical food and farm work all over the country and so much more.
Farm Aid was founded in 1985 and has raised nearly $80 million towards its mission to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members, which now includes Margo Price, host an annual festival to raise funds to support Farm Aid’s work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. For more than 35 years, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised money to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.
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