[caption id=”attachment_85420″ align=”aligncenter” width=”2144″] Willie Nelson performs during the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame show on Saturday night April 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Courtesy of KLRU, Scott Newton)
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Musicians Willie Nelson and Neil Young will headline an anti-Keystone XL pipeline concert in September.
The concert, called “Harvest the Hope,” will take place Sept. 27 in a field on a farm owned by the Tanderup family who are part of a strong collective of Nebraska landowners refusing to sell their land to TransCanada for the Keystone XL pipeline, according to Bold Nebraska.
Bold Nebraska, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Cowboy & Indian Alliance will collect the proceeds from the “Harvest the Hope” concert “to fund the ongoing fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as a number of small, community-based clean energy projects on farms and tribal land.”
In addition to Nelson and Young, the concert will feature Native American hip-hop artist Frank Waln, and the “Stopping the Pipeline Rocks All-Stars,” local Nebraska artists who recorded a benefit album in the solar-powered barn built on the path of the Keystone XL pipeline last summer.
“Our family has worked this land for over 100 years,” Art Tanderup told the North Platte Bulletin. “The Heartland is more than a place, it’s our home. We hope Americans from across the country join us to Harvest the Hope and stop the Keystone XL pipeline.”
Nebraska is one of the primary battlegrounds in the fight over the controversial Keystone XL project.
The Washington Examiner reports that the project remains in limbo as the state department has urged agencies to halt the review process until the Nebraska Supreme Court decides whether a state law that allows approval of a new pipeline route is constitutional. The Nebraska Supreme Court decision is not expected until 2015.
(H/t Zack Coleman)
