Overview
- Promoters announced on Tuesday that Willie Nelson & Family and Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts will play Bridgeport, Conn., on Sept. 22 and Philadelphia on Sept. 24, leading into Farm Aid on Sept. 26 in Virginia Beach.
- Ty Myers is listed as the opening act for both announced shows and the artists’ presales start Aug. 19 with a general Ticketmaster sale on Aug. 21 at 10 a.m. ET.
- Neil Young canceled a planned European tour in February and has made only rare live appearances since, but the Sept. dates come just after Young’s new album Second Song is due on Sept. 18.
- Willie Nelson trimmed his Outlaw Music Festival routing this year, making the single Philadelphia date a late-added stop that restores his recent local presence at the Mann.
- The scheduling follows Farm Aid’s long tradition of Nelson and Young performing together and turns the three shows into a compact weekend of fundraising and touring that could shape limited fall appearances for both acts.