Willie Nelson, Neil Young to play Nebraska concert for Keystone XL pipeline opponents

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http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/willie-nelson-neil-young-to-play-nebraska-concert-for-keystone/article_dbc0c8bc-270d-11e4-bb4c-0017a43b2370.html

POSTED: MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014 2:28 PM
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN — Music legends Willie Nelson and Neil Young will perform next month at a northeast Nebraska farm to benefit groups opposing the Keystone XL pipeline.

Nelson and Young, who for nearly three decades have headlined Farm Aid events, will play Sept. 27 on a family farm near Neligh that lies in the path of the proposed crude oil pipeline. Proceeds from the show, billed as the “Harvest the Hope Concert,” will go to pipeline opponents Bold Nebraska and the Cowboy and Indian Alliance.

Young and Nelson likely have not appeared together in Nebraska since Sept. 19, 1987, when Memorial Stadium in Lincoln hosted the third Farm Aid concert. That show, which included performances by many other popular musicians, drew 69,000 people and raised about $1.35 million.

Like Farm Aid, people who attend the Neligh show will get a message with the music, said Jane Kleeb, director of Bold Nebraska.

“The concert will definitely be telling the stories of the farmers, ranchers and tribal people who oppose the pipeline,” she said Monday.

The daytime pipeline concert will be hosted by landowners Art and Helen Tanderup, who have refused to sign an easement with TransCanada Corp., the company working to obtain federal approval for the project. The couple have staged other protests at the farm, including crop art and the planting of sacred Ponca Indian corn that will be harvested this fall.

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1. Willie is the Man.

81 yo and still giving of himself. No end in sight.