Neil Young & Willie Nelson To Host Nebraska Concert

Rock & Roll Hall Of Famers and longtime friends Willie Nelson and Neil Young will host the “Harvest The Hope” benefit concert on September 27 at a farm outside Neligh, NE to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline.

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All proceeds from the show will go towards Bold Nebraska, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Cowboy and Indian Alliance according to Rolling Stone. Tickets will cost $50 and go on sale Wednesday, August 20 at Bold Nebraska’s official site. Young and Nelson are both longtime supporters and board members for Farm Aid and last performed together in Nebraska at the 1987 installment of the event.

10,000 attendees are expected at the benefit concert, which will be held along the Keystone XL route. Energy company TransCanada has proposed the pipeline that protesters say will impose on tribal lands and will have a big environmental impact leading some farm owners to refuse to sell their land to TransCanada. “Farmers, ranchers and tribes that have been standing up to TransCanada are rock stars in my eyes,” Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb said in a press release. “Now we will have the honor to have music legends Neil Young and Willie Nelson stand with us against this risky pipeline that threatens our water and our livelihoods. It is our hope that President Obama in the end stands with us over Big Oil.” The President needs to approve the project in order for it to happen.