Minnesota music icon Bob Dylan will take the stage on Saturday at Minneapolis' Huntington Bank Stadium for the 40th year of Farm Aid , the festival he helped inspire.

Dylan, 84, joins a star-studded lineup that includes Willie Nelson, Wynonna Judd, Neil Young, Kenny Chesney, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Steve Earle, Waxahatchee and many more.

Festival officials say it was Dylan's plea to help farmers during his performance at 1985's historic Live Aid benefit concert that inspired Nelson, 92, to launch Farm Aid that same year.

Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth and raised in Hibbing. He studied for a year at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he entrenched himself in folk music.

He started performing at a Dinkytown coffee shop and embraced his new m

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