Farm Aid Organizers Tackle Ticketing Challenges for 2023 Concert: ‘Today’s On-Sale Results Fall Short’


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Willie Nelson does throughout the Farm Aid 2021 songs celebration at the Xfinity Theatre on Sept. 25, 2021 in Hartford, Conn.

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Farm Aid 2023 tickets took place sale Saturday (July 15), however high need and also reported “technical issues” experienced on Ticketmaster/Live Nation made acquiring tickets a difficulty.

General sale tickets for this year’s Farm Aid took place sale at 10 a.m. ET., complying with a pre-sale with minimal schedule previously in the week.

Ticket customers reported problem Saturday protecting tickets, tweeting grievances of waiting in a line up and also hauling tickets just to obtain mistake messages concerning the ticketing system being incapable to refine their repayment. Farm Aid 2023 — established for Sept. 23 at Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, with Neil YoungJohn Mellencamp and also Willie Nelson — is currently marketed out.

On Saturday mid-day, occasion coordinators uploaded the complying with declaration on the authorities Farm Aid social media sites accounts:

“Today’s on-sale for Farm Aid 2023 was a frustration to lots of disappointed followers attempting to buy tickets and also to Farm Aid that desired the procedure to go efficiently. Based on the enjoyment around our statement, we understood there was excellent need for tickets. We did not expect that the ticketing system would certainly allow us down.

We do every little thing that we can to see to it that Farm Aid expands the very best friendliness in every feasible method. It discomforts us that many individuals that wished to buy tickets to listen to these amazing musicians and also to sustain family members farmers ran into technological problems in the acquiring procedure today.

Despite ticketing difficulties, lots of followers had the ability to obtain tickets and also we are thankful to state that Farm Aid 2023 is marketed out. We wish you’ll remain tuned for even more means to experience Farm Aid 2023 in your home. We deeply value all that have actually sustained Farm Aid’s job to construct a system of farming that values family members farmers, excellent food, dirt and also water, and also solid areas.”

Farm Aid’s schedule consists of Young, Mellencamp and also Nelson, plus Margo Price, Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, the Grateful Dead’s Bobby Weir & the Wolf Bros. including the Wolfpack, Lukas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Allison Russell, The String Cheese Incident, Particle Kid and also a lot more.

Since releasing in 1985, Farm Aid has actually elevated greater than $64 million to sustain programs that assist family members farmers.

This year’s occasion will certainly recognize Indiana family members farmers and also others that are tackling environment adjustment utilizing regenerative, natural and also lasting farming methods.

 

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