{"id":54,"date":"1993-07-03T20:36:01","date_gmt":"1993-07-03T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2024-10-10T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:53:20","slug":"1993-farm-aid-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bneadventures.com\/index.php\/1993\/07\/03\/1993-farm-aid-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"1993 Farm Aid Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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<\/i><\/u><\/b>April 24, 1993 Ames, Iowa<\/span><\/b><\/h4>\n
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\n“I’m really impressed with your music,” Neil Young tells Bruce.<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\n
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Neil Young established Farm Aid to help farmers recover from weather losses.<\/h5>\n
I had one of the first Radio Shack TRS-100 laptops and I bluffed our way back stage posing as a journalist. We hung around the press tent until Neil Young came out and spoke with Bruce. We watched the show, met some nice nurses and took great photos.<\/h5>\n

\u00a0This is the description of the day from the Farm Aid<\/a> website:<\/span><\/b><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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All of America watched as the Flood of ’93 left thousands of Midwest families homeless. Heavy rains caused the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to rise up and overflow their banks, swallowing entire towns along the way. Eight million acres of crops were destroyed and 20 million acres were damaged. With their backs already against the wall due to heavy debt and low farm prices, Midwest family farmers had few resources left to deal with the effects of the flooding. In response to the flood, FARM AID created the Family Farm Disaster Fund to support organizations that worked directly with farm families stricken by the flood. When farmers needed help to avoid foreclosure due to losses from the flood, FARM AID-funded groups were there to help them save their farms. FARM AID VI, held in Ames, Iowa on April 24, featured performances by Bruce Hornsby, Bryan Adams, Ringo Starr, Marty Stuart, Martina McBride, the Highwaymen, and Dwight Yoakam.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n