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Jesse Welles Sings Out for Truth and Justice Jesse Welles is being hailed as the new voice of a generation and his milestone tour stop at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore Auditorium shows why. Jesse Welles is having a dream year for a musician in 2025, rocketing to stardom in a way that makes him seem […]

Jesse Welles performs at Farm Aid 40 in Minneapolis at Huntington Bank Stadium, on September 20, 2025. Learn more about Farm Aid’s 40th anniversary festival at https://farmaid.org/2025Farm Aid’s mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews […]

Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated political folk to the Ed Sullivan Theater for a solo performance of “Join ICE,” a tune from his latest EP, ‘No Kings.’ Keep watching for a bonus song from Jesse Welles and visit his website for tour date information.

The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he stares straight into the camera and starts singing. “If you’re in need of a gig that’ll help you feel big, […]

Category 45 Best Americana Performance For new vocal or instrumental Americana performance. Award to the artist(s). BoomSierra Hull Poison In My WellMaggie Rose & Grace Potter GodspeedMavis Staples That’s Gonna Leave A MarkMolly Tuttle HorsesJesse Welles 2026 Grammys – Full Nominees Listhttps://www.grammy.com/news/2026-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list Category 46 Best American Roots Song A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Americana, bluegrass, traditional […]

Jesse Welles – Live at Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL – October 24, 2024 Band Members: JESSE SOLO SET 1 1. The List 2. Join ICE3. Walmart4. Whistle Boeing5. Fentanyl6. United Health7. Cancer8. The Poor FULL BAND SET 1 9. Domestic Error10. Red11. The Great Caucasian God12. Philanthropist13. War is a God14. Certain15. Change Is […]

The Divisive Power of Jesse Welles The folk singer will be at the Ogden for a two-night run. Some music critics, like Steven Hyden, really don’t like Americana singer-songwriter Jesse Welles. “It’s all just a pile-up of performatively plain-spoken words over a fourth-rate Woody Guthrie guitar strum, over and over,” Hyden wrote in an anti-Welles manifesto last month. […]

Protest singer Jesse Welles is determined not to be yesterday’s news In the 2020 drama News of the World, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant soul eking out a living travelling the post-Civil War West, reading newspapers aloud to crowds. The monologues not only provided information but also amusement, even if the news concerned calamities. “See all […]

Farm Aid 40 Unites Generations Of Artists: Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Billy Strings, Jesse Welles, More For four decades, Farm Aid has stood as both a concert and a cause. Founded in 1985 at the height of the farm crisis, the benefit has helped support America’s family farmers through recessions, droughts, and floods, reminding us year after […]

John Berman: Bill, I know you have a special guest, someone who performed earlier in the day. Bill Weir: That’s right, John. It’s rare to be scrolling through your feeds and find what you think may be the next Bob Dylan. Uh, that is definitely the case. I’m not singular in that observation. Many other […]

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Farm Aid will hold its 40th annual concert later today in Minneapolis. The nonprofit was founded by musicians Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Cougar Mellencamp back in 1985 to support family farms across America. One of the newer voices taking to the stage this year is Jesse Welles, a musician whose […]

From the middle ages up to the modern era, society has leaned on its traveling troubadours for truthful commentary on the times. These folks trek from one town to the next, relaying the news, putting pain into words and healing with a little humor. Jesse Welles unassumingly upholds and continues this tradition. Fearless, he reports […]