Musician Bob Dylan, famously from Minnesota, has been added to the lineup for Farm Aid’s upcoming 40th anniversary show Sept. 20 at the University of Minnesota’s Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

Dylan is central to Farm Aid lore but very rarely performs at the event: The origin of Farm Aid was sparked by an onstage comment Dylan had made in 1985, Farm Aid organizer Willie Nelson has said. Dylan performed at the inaugural Farm Aid in 1985 and via satellite for the 1986 concert but had not appeared on the Farm Aid stage again till a surprise appearance in 2023.

Dylan, 84, and Nelson, 92, have been on the road jointly in recent years with the Outlaw Music Festival, which stopped at the Somerset Amphitheater last fall, and Dylan played a small show in Mankato in the spring. But the “L

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