Neil Young Sets Return to Stage This Fall After Canceling Crazy Horse Tour Dates Due to Illness

The musician has joined the performer lineup for the Farm Aid Festival taking place on Sept. 21

Neil Young is returning to the stage again.

After canceling Crazy Horse tour dates last month due to band illness, the 78-year-old musician has his next live performance set this fall at New York’s Farm Aid Festival.

The music festival announced its performer lineup on Tuesday, July 23 with Young billed alongside Willie Nelson and family, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews (with Tim Reynolds). The former has been a mainstay at the annual event — with the exception of 2021 and 2022 due to COVID-19 concerns — since the organization launched it in 1985.

Neil Young Cancels Crazy Horse Tour Dates Citing Band Illness
Others set to perform at the festival include Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson with The Travelin’ McCourys, Charley Crockett, Joy Oladokun, Southern Avenue, Cassandra Lewis and Jesse Welles, with more artists to be announced at a later date.

Tickets for the festival — which takes place in Saratoga Springs, New York, on Sept. 21 — go on sale on Friday, July 26, at 10 a.m. ET.

In late June, Young raised concerns after revealing on his website that ​​Crazy Horse’s Love Earth Tour had been canceled after some members of the rock band fell ill.

“The Love Earth Tour has been a great experience for us so far. GREAT AUDIENCES AND MUSIC. WE HAVE HAD A BLAST! When a couple of us got sick after Detroit’s Pine Knob, we had to stop,” the Canadian icon’s blog post read. “We are still not fully recovered, so sadly our great tour will have a big unplanned break. We will try to play some of the dates we miss as time passes when we are ready to rock again!”

Young then thanked fans for their “understanding and patience,” noting that “health is # 1.” “We want to stay and do more shows and more albums for you…. and for for us,” the post concluded. “With love and thanks to all of you from Crazy Horse….. Neil, Micah, Ralph and Billy Love Earth.”