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Things to do | second show added: bruce springsteen is coming to wrigley field this summer aug. 9 and 11.

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Bruce Springsteen takes the stage for his concert at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Springsteen and the E Street Band are doing a 31-performance tour across the United States before heading off to Europe.

Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Van Zandt perform at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Tuesday February 7, 2023. Springsteen and the E Street Band are doing a 31-performance tour across the United States before heading off to Europe.

Bruce Springsteen and Nils Lofgren perform at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Tuesday February 7, 2023. Springsteen and the E Street Band are doing a 31-performance tour across the United States before heading off to Europe.

Bruce Springsteen and Jake Clemons perform at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Tuesday February 7, 2023. Springsteen and the E Street Band are doing a 31-performance tour across the United States before heading off to Europe.

Bruce Springsteen takes the stage for his concert at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood on Tuesday February 7, 2023. Springsteen and the E Street Band are doing a 31 performance tour across the United States before heading off to Europe.

Update: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced Friday they will play a second show Aug. 11 at Wrigley Field, “due to overwhelming demand from fans.” Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Tuesday at Cubs.com/Springsteen .

Bruce Springsteen is coming to Chicago after all this summer, with a newly announced concert at Wrigley Field on Aug. 9. Tickets go on sale Friday.

Previous announcements for the 2023 tour for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band had left Chicago off the map; this is their first major tour together since 2017. The new Wrigley Field concert was one of several stops added Tuesday.

The concert was announced by the Chicago Cubs. Tickets are set to go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Feb. 17 at Cubs.com/Springsteen .

Other Wrigley concerts this summer include Dead & Company June 9-10; Fall Out Boy June 21; Morgan Wallen June 22-23 and P!NK on Aug. 12.

The international tour began in February in Tampa and is slated to wrap in San Francisco in December. Most concert dates have relied on ticket sales using Verified Fan via Ticketmaster. But according to mlb.com , the tickets for Wrigley Field, as well as Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park, will be sold directly by the stadiums.

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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band to play concert at Wrigley Field

Tickets will go on sale Friday at Wrigley Field

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "The Boss" is coming to Chicago.

Bruce Springsteen and "The E Street Band" have announced they've added more dates to their North American tour.

They will be playing a show at Wrigley Field on August 9.

Tickets will be sold directly by the stadium and go on sale at Friday at 10 a.m.

Tickets for the stop in Philadelphia will also be sold at the concert site, with tickets for other venues being on sale through Ticketmaster.

August 9 - Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field

Onsale: Friday, February 17 at 10:00 AM CT

August 16 - Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park

Onsale: Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 AM ET

August 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park

August 24 - Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium

Verified Fan Onsale: Monday, February 27 at 10:00 AM ET

August 28 - Washington, DC @ Nationals Park

Verified Fan Onsale: Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 AM ET

August 30 - East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium

Verified Fan Onsale: Friday, February 24 at 10:00 AM ET

September 1 - East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium

Verified Fan Onsale: Friday, February 24 at 12:00 PM ET

September 7 - Syracuse, NY @ JMA Wireless Dome

September 9 - Baltimore, MD @ Oriole Park at Camden Yards

September 12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena

Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM ET

November 3 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena

Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM PT

November 6 - Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place

Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM MT

November 8 - Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome

November 10 - Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre

Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM CT

November 14 - Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena

Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM ET

November 16 - Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena

November 18 - Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre

November 20 - Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell

November 30 - Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center

Verified Fan Onsale: Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00 AM MT

December 4 - Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum

Verified Fan Onsale: Thursday, February 23 at 10:00 AM PT

December 6 - Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum

December 8 - San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center

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Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band hit it out of the park in Wrigley Field concert

In the first of two shows at chicago’s iconic ballpark, the band delivered a powerhouse show to an adoring sold-out crowd..

Bruce Springsteen holds court at Wrigley Field with the E Street Band on Wednesday night.

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On Aug. 9, 1988, Wrigley Field turned on the lights as the Cubs played their first official night game. Thirty-five years later to the date, the Friendly Confines hosted another of its brightest moments: the return of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, this time, for a three-hour, 26-song grand slam of music.

Fresh off the European leg of a massive 2023 international tour (where Michelle Obama even guested on “Glory Days” in Spain), the Wrigley Field concert on Wednesday night (there’s a second show on Friday) kicked off a string of new North American dates as the group continues their first proper U.S. tour since 2016.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform a sold-out show on Wednesday night at Wrigley Field.

“I haven’t seen you in a while,” Springsteen chided, eliciting massive cheers from the wall-to-wall crowd inside the ballpark. In spite of the controversy surrounding the tour early on due to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing tactics, both Chicago nights are sold-out.

The stadium tour been hailed as the “Greatest Show on Earth” by Billboard, and it was hard to argue that fact watching the 17-strong lineup (rounded out by a full horn section and backup singers for this tour) give it their all on every song — from the expected high points like perennial hit “Born to Run,” which may now hold the record for largest singalong at Wrigley, to the lying-in-wait tracks like 1973’s “Kitty’s Back” that turned the ballpark into a juke joint with its bluesy cabaret breakdown.

Usually the “seven-year itch” leads many unions to permanent breakup, but the time that Springsteen and the E Street Band have been away has only made their relationship grow stronger, and the show was a testament to the joy of friends who, after 50 years, still really like making music together. You could see it on their constant smiling faces, the way in which The Boss and members of the ensemble high-fived each other after nailing songs like “Darlington County,” and the playfulness that came during “Glory Days,” when Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt took an onstage camera into their own hands for some laughable hijinks.

Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt share a microphone Wednesday night at Wrigley Field.

In this ensemble, there is equal billing, knowing it truly takes a village to create American rock ’n’ roll standards like “Dancing In The Dark.” And the incredible instrument mastery of Van Zandt, drummer Max Weinberg, the “professor” piano man Roy Bittan and saxophonist Jake Clemons (nephew of the late, great Clarence Clemons) proves them every bit as mighty as Springsteen, who, at 73 years old, can still passionately deliver every lyric and churn out to-the-high-heavens guitar solos.

Unlike tours past where the set list has been a fluid art, this time around the band has been sticking to the same standard 26 songs with only minor deviation. For Night 1 at Wrigley Field, it included several numbers from the 2020 album, “Letter To You,” and one high note off the 2022 covers album, “Only The Strong Survive,” with a remarkable rendition of the Commodores’ “Nightshift” that put emphasis on the great percussive line and the tour’s backup singers. Of course, there was a whole slew of favorites thrown in, culled from a consistent six-decade, 21-album career that has become part of the American tapestry, the originators of heartland rock relying on every bit of roots music to tell the stories of the underdogs and the working-class.

Bruce Springsteen, saxophonist Jake Clemons and drummer Max Weinberg give it their all during a sold-show at Wrigley Field on Wednesday night.

At several points in the show, Springsteen walked down a series of ramps and stairs to high-five fans in the GA pit in front of the stage, sign birthday posters and share the mic for impromptu duets. At one point, he even gave his harmonica to a young child whose face lit up like a Christmas tree.

“I need more 11-year-olds in this crowd,” Springsteen joked, poking at the largely older patrons who have clung to his music for decades.

Springsteen also recalled his own youth when introducing the solemn “Last Man Standing,” offering stories of his first Jersey band, the Castiles, and his childhood friend George Theiss, whose death in 2018 gave The Boss pause to write the song in honor of days gone by.

“Death gives you time to think about the purpose and the possibilities of living right now. It reminds you how important every moment is,” Springsteen mused.

It was a message that played out with further tributes to Clarence Clemons as videos of the “old days” played on screens during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” and the show ending with Springsteen, solo on an acoustic guitar, dedicating “I’ll See You in My Dreams” to his friend Robbie Robertson from The Band who had died just hours before.

Note: Friday will be the second and final show for Springsteen & Co. at Wrigley Field; tickets: ticketmaster.com . On Thursday’s day off, Max Weinberg’s Jukebox takes over the Park West; tickets: tix.axs.com .

• No Surrender
• Prove It All Night
• Letter to You
• The Promised Land
• Out in the Street
• Darlington County
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• Nightshift (Commodores cover)
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• Mary’s Place
• Last Man Standing
• Backstreets
• Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover)
• She’s the One
• Wrecking Ball
• Thunder Road
• Born to Run
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• Dancing in the Dark
• Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
• I’ll See You in My Dreams

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Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off North American Tour with World-Class Performance in Chicago: Review

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Oh, you thought Bruce Springsteen was done?

When the applause began, the chords of his first song, “No Surrender,” were still ringing through Chicago’s Wrigley Stadium. Of course Springsteen was done. On the opening night of his North American tour (get tickets here ), after the 73-year-old had played through the usual two verses and choruses, his longtime comrades in the E Street Band paused. Isn’t that what it sounds like when a song finishes — a pause? But as the clapping of some 40,000 people reached its crescendo, The Boss raised his hand, and “No Surrender”came roaring back to life. It was the first of many false endings, as Springsteen thumbed his nose at the very idea that the music should stop.

From “No Surrender” the E Street Band launched straight into “Ghosts” and “Prove It All Night,” while Springsteen never ceased moving. He raised his hands when they weren’t strumming a guitar, paced when he wasn’t rooted to the mic, and rocked his knees rather than stand flat. The first time he even briefly stood still came moments before “Letter to You,” when he swapped guitars with a roadie — an interaction as smooth and well-rehearsed as anything else on stage. The disruption lasted mere seconds before he was back at it. Many artists one-third Springsteen’s age would be gasping for breath, and here he was bounding into his fourth song.

We know younger artists can struggle with their stage stamina because last weekend Chicago hosted Lollapalooza . We watched bands wilt in scorching heat and fight to rouse rain-soaked audiences. We also saw the many tricks musicians use to catch their breath — the video clips, the audience banter, the clever ways to disguise a pause. But all of these things stop the music, which is a problem for Bruce Springsteen. So he avoided the problem by never needing to catch his breath. He may not move a spryly as he did five years ago, but his endurance is world-class.

Springsteen did talk to the audience but in very short bursts, such as asking, “Are you ready for a road trip?” before “Darlington County.” He gave a harmonica to an 11-year-old boy, and a lot of his communication with the crowd was nonverbal. During “Kitty’s Back,” after the E Street Band had taken turns with solos, Springsteen began his guitar part by holding a single note for a comical length of time, all the while wiping his brow as if dying of hard work — a guitar hero dad joke.

He’s clearly having fun even after some 50 years with the E Street Band, shouting “Max!” or “Steve!” to get the audience’s attention before Max Weinberg or Steven Van Zandt did something impressive. As drummer, Weinberg acted a bit as Master of Ceremonies, helping transition between songs and setting the tone with his body language. And Van Zandt remains a delightful ham, shredding on his paisley guitars and mugging for the cameras. Jake Clemons, who has been touring saxophonist since the death of his uncle Clarence Clemons, has emerged as a fan favorite, and got loud cheers at the start of every sax solo.

The E Street Band took one break that might have been longer than all of Springsteen’s little rests combined. In the second half of the set, he gave a longer speech about auditioning for his first band around the age of 15 with his sister’s boyfriend, a boy named George. Many years later, George died of lung cancer, and Springsteen realized that he was the last surviving member of that first band. Before playing “Last Man Standing,” he told the crowd, “Death’s final gift to the living is an expanded awareness of the possibilities of right now.”

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The main set ended with a torrid run of “Wrecking Ball” into “The Rising,” “Badlands,” and “Thunder Road.” Springsteen and the E Street Band all joined together and took a bow, but they didn’t leave the stage; didn’t even pretend that the music was over.

The first encore was the wildest portion of the whole night. Things kicked off with a full-stadium rendition of “Born to Run” sung at a volume that was surely audible in Indiana. During “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” Bruce and most of the mobile members of the E Street Band, including Van Zandt, Clemons, Nils Lofgren, and Patti Scialfa all danced around a mic stand like it was a maypole.

“Hey Stevie,” Springsteen repeated during “Glory Days,” “Hey Stevie, hey Stevie, hey Stevie, I think it’s time to go home.” Both men soaked in 40,000 or so “Boos!” and got the audience on their feet again for “Dancing in the Dark.” Oh, you thought Springsteen was finished? Crank up the volume for “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out!”

Three hours, 26 songs, no breaks. But the music must stop for all of us, eventually, as Springsteen acknowledged during the second encore: a rendition of “I’ll See You in My Dreams” dedicated to Robbie Robertson, legendary co-founder of The Band who had passed away earlier that day. “Up around the river bend,” Springsteen sang, “For death is not the end/ And I’ll see you in my dreams.”

The Wrigley Field concert ended soon afterwards, though to paraphrase the man himself, the end is not the end. Today, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are one of the most electrifying shows in the world. And the music isn’t stopping any time soon.

Setlist: No Surrender Ghosts Prove It All Night Letter to You The Promised Land Out in the Street Darlington County Kitty’s Back Nightshift (Commodores cover) The E Street Shuffle Mary’s Place Johnny 99 Last Man Standing Backstreets Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover) She’s the One Wrecking Ball The Rising Badlands Thunder Road

Encore: Born to Run Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Glory Days Dancing in the Dark Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

Second Encore: I’ll See You in My Dreams

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Bruce Springsteen, E-Street Band Announce 31-City US Tour — But Chicago Isn't on the List

Published january 28, 2023 • updated on january 28, 2023 at 10:21 pm.

Tuesday, The Boss and his band announce a new 2023 international tour, with 31 dates in cities across the country.

Notably missing from the list? Any performance scheduled for Chicago, or Illinois.

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The last time Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band toured in United States was in Sept. of 2016, as part of the The River tour. At that time, Chicago's United Center was the second stop on his list.

For the 2023 tour, Chicago area fans will have to travel to nearby Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 7 to see Rosalita jump a little higher.

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Here's the full list of shows planned:

• Feb. 1: Tampa, FL at the Amalie Arena
• Feb. 3: Atlanta, GA at the State Farm Arena
• Feb. 5: Orlando, FL at the Amway Center
• Feb. 7: Hollywood, FL at the Hard Rock Live
• Feb. 10: Dallas, TX at the American Airlines Center
• Feb. 14: Houston, TX at the Toyota Center
• Feb. 16: Austin, TV at the Moody Center
• Feb. 18: Kansas City, MO at the T-Mobile Center
• Feb. 21 : Tulsa, OK at the BOK Center
• Feb. 25: Portland, OR at the Moda Center
• Feb. 27: Seattle WA at the Climate Pledge Arena
• Mar. 2: Denver, CO at the Ball Arena
• Mar. 5: St. Paul, MN at the Xcel Energy Center
• Mar. 7: Milwaukee, WI at the Fiserv Forum
• Mar. 9: Columbus, OH at the Nationwide Arena
• Mar. 12: Uncasville, CT at the Mohegan Sun
• Mar. 14: Albany, NY at the MVP Arena
• Mar. 16: Philadelphia, PA at the Wells Fargo Center
• Mar. 18: State College, PA at the Bryce Jordan Center
• Mar. 20: Boston, MA at the TD Garden
• Mar. 23: Buffalo, NY at the KeyBank Center
• Mar. 25: Greensboro at the Greensboro Coliseum
• Mar. 27: Washington D.C. at the Capitol One Arena
• Mar. 29: Detroit, MI at the Little Caesars Arena
• April 1: New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
• April 3: Brooklyn, NY at the Barclays Center
• April 5: Cleveland, OH at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
• April 7: Baltimore, MD at the Baltimore Arena
• April 9, April 11: Belmont Park, NY at the UBS Arena
• April 14: Newark, NJ at the Prudential Center

Tickets for the 2023 U.S. arena shows will go on sale over the course of the next two weeks, with the first on-sale beginning Wednesday, July 20 at 10 a.m.

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• Night Play Video
• No Surrender Play Video
• Ghosts Play Video
• Prove It All Night Play Video
• Letter to You Play Video
• The Promised Land Play Video
• Out in the Street Play Video
• Candy's Room Play Video
• Kitty's Back Play Video
• Nightshift ( Commodores  cover) Play Video
• Trapped ( Jimmy Cliff  cover) Play Video
• Mary's Place Play Video
• Last Man Standing ( Acoustic with Barry Danielian on trumpet ) Play Video
• Backstreets Play Video
• Because the Night ( Patti Smith Group  cover) Play Video
• She's the One Play Video
• Wrecking Ball Play Video
• The Rising Play Video
• Badlands Play Video
• Thunder Road Play Video
• Born to Run Play Video
• Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Play Video
• Glory Days Play Video
• Dancing in the Dark ( Followed by Band Intros ) Play Video
• Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out ( Pictures of Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons were shown during the song ) Play Video
• I'll See You in My Dreams ( solo, acoustic ) Play Video

Note: Patti Scialfa is not present.

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• No Surrender
• Because the Night by Patti Smith Group
• Nightshift by Commodores
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Bruce Springsteen Announces New North American Tour Dates

Bruce Springsteen has announced an additional 22 dates for his 2023 North American Tour.

Springsteen and his E Street band launched the tour earlier this month in Tampa, marking their first live appearance in nearly six years. The trek is currently scheduled to continue across the U.S. until mid-April, after which Springsteen will bring the show to Europe and the U.K.

He'll then return for a second leg of North American shows that begins on Aug. 9 in Chicago and concludes on Dec. 8 in San Francisco. Several of the tour's stops include multiple shows in the same city, like in Philadelphia, Toronto and Inglewood, Calif.

You can see the list of new show dates below.

Tickets for the new concerts will go on sale over the next two weeks, with the first on-sale launching on Feb. 19. More details can be found on Springsteen's website .

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, New 2023 North American Tour Dates Aug. 9 - Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field Aug. - Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park Aug. - Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park Aug. - Foxborough, MA @ Gillette Stadium Aug. - Washington, DC @ Nationals Park Aug. - East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium Sept. 1 - East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium Sept. 7 - Syracuse, NY @ JMA Wireless Dome Sept. 9 - Baltimore, MD @ Oriole Park at Camden Yards Sept. 12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Arena Nov. 3 - Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena Nov. 6 - Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place Nov. 8 - Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome Nov. 10 - Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre Nov. 14 - Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena Nov. 16 - Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena Nov. 18 - Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre Nov. 20 - Montreal, QC @ Centre Bell Nov. 30 - Phoenix, AZ @ Footprint Center Dec. 4 - Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum Dec. 6 - Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum Dec. 8 - San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center

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Bruce Springsteen rocks SU with 6th trip to Dome

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During Springsteen’s opening song, “Lonesome Day,” he encourages the crowd to raise their arms to the beat. Springsteen frequently interacts with his audience throughout the set.

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Ithaca resident David Levine first saw Bruce Springsteen perform live in 1979 at Cornell University, which is when he became a “Springsteen fan.” Over four decades later, David made the hour-long trip to Syracuse with his wife Deb Levine to see Springsteen in action once again.

“This is my first Springsteen concert,” Deb said. “It took me a long time because he just seemed too popular to me, but over the years, as I listened to David’s music, I’ve learned to love Springsteen too.”

David and Deb joined thousands of attendees who saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the JMA Wireless Dome Thursday after their original performance was delayed for approximately eight months. Springsteen and the E Street Band originally scheduled their show for September 7 but delayed it due to Springsteen needing to be treated for symptoms of peptic ulcer disease.

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Springsteen wrote on Sept. 6 he was canceling all scheduled September performances of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, leaving SU alumni and Springsteen fans waiting in hopes he would return.

Springsteen, who last played in the then-Carrier Dome in November 1992 , returned to Syracuse along with the E Street Band to perform hits from albums like “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.”, among others.

Springsteen’s performance Thursday marked the sixth time he has played in the Syracuse area, including his third time at the Dome. David, who witnessed his second Springsteen performance Thursday, said he was excited about being able to grow up with him and see “who he’s become.”

“If you’re someone who’s serious about music, he’s someone who has endured the test of time. My stepbrothers and now my nephews and nieces still follow The Beatles and The Doors, and a lot of musicians who I grew up with. Springsteen to me is someone who’s going to be around in 50 or 100 years,” David said.

Ticket sales for the new date of the concert were great, according to Pete Sala, SU’s vice president, chief campus facilities officer and managing director of the JMA Wireless Dome. Over 30,000 tickets were sold for the Sept. 7 concert.

Springsteen and band member Stevie Van Zandt frequently take the same microphone throughout the performance. Van Zandt’s role in E Street Band includes guitar, vocals, and mandolin.

“We’re actually selling more tickets than what we had sold for the last show. So they’re very, very happy,” Sala said. “This has been a great selling show.”

Kaija Dockter, an employee at SUNY ESF and a volunteer for the concert, said she met one fan who traveled from New Brunswick, Canada, to attend his 71st Springsteen concert.

Another three fans — Sue T., Lisa T. and Brian M., who all wish to be referenced by their first name and first letter of their last name — expressed how Springsteen’s performance this time around was “pretty big” for them.

“Everyone talks about Taylor Swift going through phases in her career. I mean, start with Springsteen,” Brian M. said. “Look at the journey of his albums, the key messages that are quite different, but similar, in each of those albums.”

One unnamed concertgoer — who witnessed his fifth Springsteen performance on Thursday — first saw him in concert at Soldier Field in Chicago during the mid-1980s.

He said the concert would be a great experience because it was the first time as a father that he brought his son to a concert of any kind.

“Believe in yourself, believe in the American dream, and never fail to help other people,” the concert attendee said. “I really believe those are his messages, that when good overcomes evil, no matter what the circumstances are, no matter what the world is like, there is hope.”

Springsteen and The E Street Band will perform next in Columbus, Ohio, Sunday and will begin a tour across Europe starting with a May 5 concert in Cardiff, Wales.

Even for SU students who have never seen Springsteen perform before, Deb said the concert was worth it because Springsteen is more than just a great musician.

“I’d say give him a try. I didn’t like him at first, and I learned to love him,” Deb said.

Editor-in-chief Anish Vasudevan contributed reporting for this story.

Published on April 18, 2024 at 11:19 pm

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At a Clark concert 50 years ago, Bruce Springsteen heralded things to come

Before he was chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected and selling out stadiums, Bruce Springsteen was another aspiring, up-and-coming artist on the club and college circuit.

And it was 50 years ago this year — on Oct. 6, 1974, to be precise — when Clark University students became some of the first ones in Worcester to catch “The Fever.”

On April 12, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be playing at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Connecticut. This will be Springsteen’s first show in New England since he postponed the remainder of his current tour back in September as he recovered from peptic ulcer disease.

Last year, Springsteen played three shows in the Bay State — March 20 at the TD Garden in Boston, and Aug. 24 and 26 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. On Aug. 26, his last New England show before the scheduled April 12 show, Springsteen suffered a self-diagnosed panic attack when E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt revealed he was from the Bay State and not New Jersey.

I call that a bargain

On Page 9 of the Oct. 3, 1974, edition of the Clark University’s student newspaper, The Scarlet , ran an unassuming quarter-page advertisement that had more white space than type for two different concerts.

The unassuming, easy-to-miss ad plainly read Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee and Willie Dixon were playing Oct. 4  

Further down the page and supplying the same amount of little or no urgency, the ad read Bruce Springsteen was playing just two days later on Oct. 6.

Even in smaller type, the ad sheepishly read, almost as an apology, “Tickets: $2, Oct. 4; $3, Oct. 6; $4, for both. Talk about a bargain for three blues legends, but I don’t know about the other guy.

For you see in 1974, most Clark students who heard the name Springsteen would say, “Who?” while anyone off-campus who got wind of the Bruce show at Clark probably would have shrugged, “Who cares?” or “I’ll save my money.”

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Springsteen’s Clark show was a year before “The Boss” was on the cover of Time and Newsweek in the same week on Oct. 27, 1975, and roughly 10 months before his breakthrough third album “Born to Run,” which was released on Aug. 25, 1975.

On Sept. 19, 1974, pianist Roy Bittan and drummer Max Weinberg played their first show in the E Street Band. By the time the two played at Clark, Bittan and Weinberg had only been rocking out with Springsteen for two-and-a-half weeks. Not at Clark was Steven Van Zandt, who wouldn't become a full-fledged E Street Band member until July 1975.

The night things changed

Springsteen is a legend now, but 50 years ago he was just another struggling rocker who was playing at area clubs, college halls and small concert arenas, and who was building a slow but steady reputation in the Tri-State area and beyond for his unorthodox tight band and legendary marathon concerts.

In 1974, Springsteen was nobody as far as people of Worcester were concerned. Unless you were from or had a cousin from the Garden State, chances are you never heard of the guy or any of his music. You certainly weren’t hearing Springsteen on Worcester radio. If you did, it was Manfred Mann’s Earth Band’s cover of Springsteen’s “Blinded by the Light.” And he wasn’t being played on turntables in college dorms.

But that was about to change on the night of Oct. 6, 1974, at Clark’s Atwood Hall in Worcester, the same New England city where Springsteen would go on to sell out multiple nights on his “Born in the U.S.A.” tour and play his tour opener for his “Tunnel of Love” tour, all in the ‘80s at the Worcester Centrum , now the DCU Center.

To date, Springsteen has play eight sold-out shows at Worcester’s downtown arena.

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'Controlled energy'

So what did Springsteen and his E Street Band (noncredited in The Scarlet ad) deliver that night 50 years ago at Clark?

“Controlled energy,” according to college scribe Ruth Rachel Polsky, who reviewed the show and left behind one of the few documents of Springsteen’s first-ever concert in Worcester.

“Onstage, silhouetted dramatically by green light, the slight man (Springsteen) became a magician, deftly manipulating his band, his body and us, his audience,” Polsky wrote in The Scarlet published four days the show.

Despite only being a junior at the time, Polsky was astute, especially with her Springsteen-magician analogy.

Nightly during the 267-date, sold-out run of “Springsteen on Broadway” at the Walter Kerr and St. James theatres in New York City, the Boss says it all starts with a big “magic trick,” a sleight of hand that has given Springsteen "a furious fire" that’s need to come face to face with 80,000 screaming rock ‘n’ roll fans.

“I am here to provide proof of life to that ever elusive, never completely believable 'us,'" Springsteen said. “That is my magic trick. And like all good magic tricks, it begins with a setup.”

A life-changing event

When Clark seniors Dennis M. Dimitri and Sue Kurz (later Sue Kurz Eleftherakis) went to the Springsteen concert at Atwood Hall together as friends, they were unaware of the life-altering event that was about to unfold inside.

“I was not a Springsteen fan going into the show,” Dimitri said. “The reason I made a point of going is my cousin was attending Seton Hall in New Jersey at the time. And he always used to say to me that there’s this guy who plays there in the student union named Bruce Springsteen. He’s great.  If you ever get a chance to see him you should go. And that’s what prompted me to get the tickets and go. I’d never listened to one of his albums prior to that.”

Dimitri, a Worcester-native — now a retired professor and former vice chair of Family Medicine & Community Health UMass Chan Medical School — and Kurz, originally from White Plains, New York, were sitting in the front row of the balcony in Atwood Hall.

“I just had two tickets and Sue was a friend of mine,” Dimitri said.  “And I asked her to come with me, and I told her the story about having heard about him and we should probably go.“

“I was a big music fan but not a Springsteen fan,” Kurz said. “I never heard of Springsteen before. But I was a rock ‘n’ roll music lover and the show was inexpensive and on campus.”

And there were also other fellow Clarkies and Clarkie friends that they knew in the audience.

“Ironically, also in the crowd, was the woman who later became my wife. She was on the floor with her girlfriends, just a few rows back from the stage,” Dimitri said. “We got married several years after we got out of college.”

'He just took the crowd'

Touring behind his sophomore album, “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle,” Springsteen opened with “Incident on 57th Street” accompanied only by pianist Roy Bittan.

“For the opening of the show, Springsteen came out with an acoustic (guitar) and played a slow ballad,” Dimitri said. “I didn’t know it at the time but, later, recognized that it was 'Incident on 57th Street,' which we all nicknamed 'Spanish Johnny' because of that opening line, ‘Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night.’”

“When Springsteen got on the stage, I only focused on him,” Kurz added. “And he just took the crowd. He just controlled the audience. He was just amazing. And I think I was so surprised how good he was. And I never forgot it. He was just so wonderful.”

Then everything changed when “Scooter” and the “Big Man” and the rest of the E Street Band came out and bust Atwood Hall in half.

“When he jerked his hips to the left and to the right, a double-barreled drumroll and flashes of purple and red light occurred simultaneously, radiating to us in a wave of total sensuality,” Polsky continued in her review. “When his voice dropped to a husky, caressing whisper, we held out collective breath and rose with him to the crescendo on Clarence Clemons’ ethereal sax.”

'He knew how to work a crowd'

Springsteen played “Spirit in the Night,” an extended version of “Kitty’s Back” and a “crashing, ecstatic “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” the latter which the crowd was dancing in the aisles, according to The Scarlet.

“The other thing I remember about that concert that I can’t recall ever experiencing before that and not much since is the ability of this band to take you up to this incredible high, and then slow it down and then bring it up even higher again,” Dimitri said. “It was just a manipulation of emotions of the audience that I don’t know if I’ve experienced that with other bands.”

“Bruce was feeding off the energy, and he really knew how to work a crowd,” Erlander said. “He really knew how to get them going. He was a real performer, which he still is.”

Clark senior Leon Erlanger wasn’t a Springsteen fan going into the show at Atwood Hall. And he wasn’t much of Springsteen fan going out.

“I’m a mild Springsteen fan. I’m not like a big Springsteen fan,” Erlanger said. “A friend of mine had seen him in Boston and told me he was fantastic and I have to see him. But not many people knew who he was.”

What Erlanger found extraordinary was how Springsteen instantaneously made the crowd go bonkers.

“Springsteen showed up, and he started singing and I would say, within two seconds, these people who didn’t know him, pretty much the whole audience, went crazy,” Erlanger said. “I’d never seen anything like it. Honestly. I was just looking around and thinking, what the hell was going on around here? And it was like the Beatles or something.”

'They went nuts over him'

Erlanger said he noticed that the women, especially, in the audience were going particularly nuts over Springsteen.

“All these women that I thought were nonchalant about men but I guess it was just they were nonchalant about me, they were all talking about how sexy Springsteen was. And I mean they were getting like really excited. I was just really blown away about the whole thing,” Erlanger said. “They went nuts over him. I’ve never seen anything like it …And it was instant, just instant. Everybody went crazy and was going crazy through the whole concert.”

Appearance-wise, Dimitri and Kurz remember Springsteen being a skinny, scrawny little guy in a muscle shirt and blue jeans sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses who became larger than life onstage, feeding on the excitement of the crowd’s collective energy.

In other words, Springsteen, 25, was already a powerhouse.

“I’m not quite sure what this guy is all about,” Dimitri said. “He’s from New Jersey, and he looks a little bit like a greaser, to tell you that truth. And his songs had a lot of car references in them.”

“Springsteen looked so small to me, but, I think it was because he was so young but also, he was standing next to Clarence Clemons, who I really didn’t notice because I was focusing on Bruce,” Kurz said. “He was very scruffy-looking but the way he controlled our hearts and heads and just got us going. I couldn’t look away. It was just great.

Kurtz, who has seen Springsteen five times in her life, said “Rosalita” was her favorite song that night at Atwood Hall.

“A lot of that bands at that time were a bunch of hippies,” Erlanger said. “And Springsteen didn’t look like that. He looked more like a biker, pre-hippie era.”

Sounds of change

Springsteen was a different sound from what people were used to in the early ‘70s, Erlanger added.

“At that time, a lot of bands were unscripted and they would play a song and have a jam in the middle, stuff like that, and it was very loose,” Erlanger said. “But Springsteen’s act was very scripted, building into these crescendos. And I don’t think people were used to that. I found it kind of contrived, that was my feeling about it. But everybody else seemed to be eating it up.”

Erlanger said while he kind of liked Springsteen, he didn’t go crazy over him as did so many concertgoers.

“I was thinking his lyrics were like he was trying to be like Bob Dylan but not quite succeeded, ‘Blinded by the Light’ and scared of the night, things like that,” Erlanger continued.  “He was OK but he was not great.”

In addition to The Boss, The Big Man, Mighty Max and The Professor, Polsky also gave high marks to organist Danny Federici and bassist Garry Tallent in her review.

“Through sheer professionalism combined with humor, emotion, and charisma, Bruce Springsteen gave Clark a show that won’t soon be forgotten — a synthesis of rock and jazz that communicates on the level of pure soul,” the Scarlet review said.

Dimitri agrees.

“You could see the music moving back and forth among the various players, whether it was Bruce with his guitar, Clarence with his sax, Roy with the keyboards, Max with the drums,” Dimitri said. “It just moved around so much back and forth among them and building to crescendos that just blew you away.”

A legendary sax player

Like Polsky, Dimitri had high marks for the shared chemistry between Clemons and Springsteen.

“I have not seen a lot of rock bands that had a saxophone player in them. And Clarence Clemons would come in on those saxophone solos and just blow the lid off of the place,” Dimitri said. “Clearly, Bruce and Clarence stuck out, man. Those were two imposing figures on the stage that drew you right in. It was hard to take your eyes off them. It was a stark contrast, absolutely, but they fit together like hand and glove. And they played off each other back and forth,”

At Clark, Springsteen played the yet-to-be-released tracks “She’s the One” and “Jungleland” (both off “Born to Run”) for the first time for a Worcester crowd at Clark University.

“One of the other songs that really struck me and I didn’t really know what it was at the time was 'Jungleland,’” Dimitri said, “When '“'Born to Run'”' came out the next year, I immediately recognized the song when I played it. Oh! That’s definitely one of the songs I heard him play.”

'What did we just see?'

At the end of Springsteen’s performance at Clark, a totally stunned and blown-away Dimitri and Kurz turned to each other and said in unison, “Oh, my God! What did we just see?”

“I say this all the time. Of all the bands that I have ever seen, I think the E Street Band is the tightest band,” Dimitri said. “I never seen anything quite like it. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s like they’re all connected all the time. Now, with the hindsight of 50 years, I realize that’s because of the workmanship of Bruce Springsteen bringing those guys together. They are just incredible.”

On Nov, 18, 1975, Springsteen played the Hammersmith Odeon in London. Kurz, who has seen the concert film made from the ’75 London show, says the Clark University show was a lot like that, just with fewer funny hats.

“Springsteen at Clark University was the best show I’ve ever seen,” Kurz said. “And I’ve seen the Rolling Stones in the third row at Shea Stadium. I’ve seen a lot of great shows. But I still have to go back to that because it has stuck with me all these years.”

'I was sort of baffled'

Clark University was the first and only time Erlanger saw Springsteen. Erlanger, who’s originally from New York, cites Bob Marley as the best show he ever saw. He also rates Bob Dylan high on his personal list. Erlanger said he saw Dylan in Sweden when he had a cold and he sounded better than he normally sounds.

“I thought Springsteen’s band sounded good, but they didn’t sound as good as everybody else seemed to think,” Erlanger said. “I was just sort of baffled by it. I thought they were good. I liked them. I didn’t understand what the mania was about.” 

The next day, Dimitri and Kurz went to Carl Seder's Music Mart in downtown Worcester. One of them bought “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” while the other bought “The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.” Neither of them had enough money to buy both of them so they bought one each.

“It was probably, I don’t know, $3.99 at the time,” Dimitri said.  “I don’t remember which one of us took which one but eventually, I know for sure I went back at some point later and bought the other one that I didn’t have so I had them both and played the heck out of both of those.”

More than a moment

At the time of this writing, general admission, standing-room-only, verified resale tickets for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s twice-postponed April 12 concert at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., were going for $2,380 each on Ticketmaster.

To date, Dimitri has seen Springsteen nine times, five times in the ‘70s and three times with his first wife, who died 10 years ago.

Dimitri married his second wife six months ago. His current wife has never seen Bruce Springsteen but all of that is going to change when they see Springsteen on April 15 at the MVP Arena in Albany, New York, which will also be Dimitri’s 10th time seeing The Boss.

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For those heading to the show, here is the know-before-you-go information to make your travel and concert experience as smooth as possible.

Concessions/Merchandise

Cash is not accepted at any concession locations, the box office or merchandise stands. Major credit cards, debit cards and mobile payment (Apple Pay, Android Pay and Google Wallet) are accepted. For those who just can’t resist buying a tour poster or T-shirt, there will be an outdoor tent located outside of Gate N prior to the show selling artist merchandise. Once the show begins, additional merch booths will open inside the venue as concourse traffic eases.

Clear Bag Policy

As with all events at the JMA Dome, a clear bag policy will be enforced. Each fan is allowed one clear bag and one small clutch or purse, with exceptions for medically necessary items. Please visit the  Clear Bag Policy webpage  for additional information. Being aware of the policy ahead of time will help expedite entry into the venue.

For those who purchased a parking pass in advance for the Sept. 7 show, it is still valid for this show.

If you are a member of our campus community planning to attend the concert, your existing campus parking pass will be honored in University Avenue Garage, Comstock Avenue Garage, University Avenue North and South lots and the Irving Avenue Hill lot, as space allows.

All parking is cashless. Customers may pay via credit card (including tap and pay), or through Google Pay or Apple Pay. Have payment ready for the lot attendants, to ensure an efficient flow of traffic.

Pay parking is available at several locations around campus, including:

• Comstock/Colvin Lots : These lots will open at 1 p.m. Permit only, includes free shuttle service to and from College Place, which will begin running at 4 p.m.
• Skytop Lot : This lot will open at 1 p.m. Cost is $30 per car, and includes free shuttle service to and from College Place, which will begin running at 4 p.m.
• Limited available in University Avenue Garage  and  Comstock Avenue Garage : $35 per car, please note that garages close two hours after the event ends
• Accessible parking for those with a nationally-recognized handicap placard or license plate will be available at the  Skytop Lot for $30 per car, which includes free shuttle service to and from Gate A of the JMA Wireless Dome

Those who haven’t purchased a parking permit in advance are encouraged to use the Brighton Avenue exit off 1-81 and take Ainsley Drive to the Skytop Lot.

Those “Born to Run,” “Born in the USA” or who simply want to do “The E Street Shuffle” for a couple of hours are in luck, as tickets are still  available through Ticketmaster , starting at $60.50 including fees.

As a reminder, those who purchased tickets for the September 7, 2023 show are still valid for the April 18, 2024 show.

To avoid delays at the gate, make sure to download your mobile tickets before you arrive to campus.

For those with general admission tickets for the pit, please enter through Gate D.

Campus Travel Before and After the Concert

Regular shuttles to South Campus and other campus and Centro shuttles will continue to run during and after the event, though arrivals and departures may be delayed due to the large amount of vehicular traffic in the University area.

Syracuse University’s Parking and Transportation Services (PTS) will make a temporary change to campus traffic patterns following the conclusion of the concert.

As the concert ends, PTS and the Syracuse Police Department will close Comstock Avenue to all traffic except parking shuttles, which will travel between the College Place bus stop, the Colvin Street and Comstock Avenue Lots and the Skytop Lot.

The concert is anticipated to end between 10:20 and 10:50 p.m., and at that time, PTS will direct all traffic away from Comstock Avenue between Waverly Avenue and East Colvin Street. As a significant crowd is expected for the concert, this will allow for the efficient exit and transportation of the concert attendees from the shuttle stop at College Place to their parking lots on South Campus. The road will reopen as soon as the concert shuttles are cleared. More information about parking is available on the  Parking and Transportation Services website .

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band touched down in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Friday night for an intimate show at the 10,000-seat Mohegan Sun Arena. It’s the tiniest venue they’ve hit since returning to the road in February 2023, and one of the few casino gigs Springsteen has played in his entire career.

“We’re back!” Springsteen said when taking the stage. “Somebody lost their money! Somebody lost their money or we wouldn’t be back. We’ve got to get paid. But I don’t care if you lost your money or you won your money, tonight we’re going to make you the luckiest people in the world!”

“Seeds” was recorded during the 1983 Born In The U.S.A. sessions at The Hit Factory in New York City, but fans didn’t hear it until the summer of 1985 when he started playing it live. It’s about a desperate man that brings his family down to Texas with the hope of finding work in an oil refinery. They wind up sleeping in their car and tents alongside the highway.

“Parked in the lumberyard freezing our asses off,” Springsteen sings. “Kids in the back seat got a graveyard cough/I’m sleeping up in front with my wife/Billy club tapping on the windshield in the middle of the night/He says, ‘Move along son, move along.'”

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Many times throughout the show, Springsteen joked that he literally didn’t know where he was. “Uncasville!” he roared near the start of “10th Avenue Freeze-Out.” “Where the fuck am I?” Before wrapping up the show with “I’ll See You In My Dreams,” he addressed the crowd one last time. “I love Uncasville, wherever the fuck it is,” he said. “Matter of fact, I’m moving to Uncasville tomorrow!”

The tour continues April 15 in Albany, New York, before heading to Syracuse, New York, and Columbus, Ohio. In early May, it moves over to Europe for a couple of months. Another American leg begins August 15th in Pittsburgh.

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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band brought their 2024 World Tour back to the Northeast last night at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Playing for nearly three hours with 18 musicians on-stage, they performed fan-favorite rarities – including the tour debuts of “I’m On Fire,” “Seeds” and “Lucky Town” – alongside iconic live staples like “Thunder Road,” “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born to Run,” “The Promised Land” and “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).” With songs like “My City Of Ruins,” “Nightshift,” “Backstreets” and the show’s finale “I’ll See You In My Dreams” – they explored themes of mortality, honoring those we’ve lost and living for each day. The opening song “Roll of the Dice” was a nod to the show’s location (only played in Las Vegas previously) and Springsteen’s much-beloved cover of Jimmy Cliff’s “Trapped” also made its second appearance of the tour.

Springsteen and The E Street Band came to Mohegan Sun Arena after seven widely-praised shows across the West Coast in March and April – the band’s first since postponing dates last year due to Springsteen’s peptic ulcer disease – and they’ll continue into New York State next week with shows in Albany and Syracuse. Ultimately the 2024 World Tour will include over 50 dates in 17 countries through the end of November.

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• Updated: Apr. 16, 2024, 7:06 p.m. |
• Published: Apr. 16, 2024, 8:01 a.m.

(L-R) Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Max Weinberg and Garry W. Tallent perform live during a concert at the Olympastadion on June 19, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Frank Hoensch/Redferns) Getty Images

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Bruce Springsteen previewed this week’s Syracuse concert with a special message on social media.

“First time I came to Syracuse was 1973 and you were looking at the only two members of the E Street Band that were there 51 frickin’ years ago,” The Boss said in an Instagram video alongside original E Street Band bassist Garry W. Tallent on Monday.

“It said ‘Welcome Bruce Spring-stine,’” Tallant recalled.

It’s unclear if he was referring to a misspelled name (Springstein?) or a mispronunciation of the bandleader’s surname. A review in the Herald-Journal newspaper of that 1973 concert at the Onondaga County War Memorial misidentified the band opening for Chicago as “a five-member combo from New Jersey called Bris Christy .”

“50 years later and guess what? Me, this gentleman Garry W. Tallent, and the rest of the E Street Band have plans to destroy your city and rock you into the ground!” Springsteen said Monday.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to perform at the JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse on Thursday, April 18. The concert was originally scheduled for September 2023 but was postponed after Springsteen was diagnosed with peptic ulcer disease .

“You sing with your diaphragm. My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me, you know?,” the 74-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer told E Street Radio host Jim Rotolo last month. “So, I literally couldn’t sing at all, you know, and that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems.”

More than 30,000 tickets have been sold for the Dome concert, which will be Springsteen’s first performance in Central New York since playing Vernon Downs in 2012 . Past Springsteen concerts also include performances at the War Memorial in 1973 and 1978, the Landmark Theatre in 1996, and the Carrier Dome in 1985 and 1992.

Here’s what else you need to know, according to Syracuse University’s website:

Tickets purchased for the original Sept. 7, 2023, date will be honored for the rescheduled date of April 18, 2024.

A few thousand tickets are still available for the Syracuse show through Ticketmaster (prices start at $74.40), as well as VividSeats , StubHub , TicketNetwork or SeatGeek . Attendees are encouraged to download their ticket on their phone before arriving.

Guests with a General Admission Pit ticket should enter through Gate D.

PARKING / TRAFFIC

Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Concertgoers are encouraged to arrive early due to traffic as the concert will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. Springsteen has no opening act.

If you purchased advance sale parking, please display your parking pass on your rearview mirror so it is easily viewable for the parking attendants and to help with traffic flow. ( See a list of parking lot addresses .) If you purchased a parking pass for the original concert date, that pass is still valid.

• On event day, $35 parking will be available at the University Avenue Garage, UAG, (1101 E Adams St) and Comstock Avenue Garage, CAG, (501 Comstock Ave). Additional parking may be available at UNVN, UNVS, Harrison and Waverly. All lots will accept major credit cards, debit cards and mobile payment (Apple Pay, Android Pay and Google Pay). Cash will not be accepted.
• $30 paid parking will be available at the Skytop (1600 Jamesville Avenue ) parking lots. Free shuttle transportation is provided between the College Place shuttle drop off and the Colvin, Comstock and Skytop parking lots. These lots will open at 1 p.m. with shuttle service beginning at 4 p.m.
• Skytop: If you are using Route 81 south to get to the SKY or SKYD lots, SU suggests you use Exit 17. At the bottom of the ramp turn LEFT and at the next light head up Brighton Ave., then left onto Ainsley Drive to your lot.

All lots will accept major credit cards, debit cards and mobile payment (Apple Pay, Android Pay and Google Pay). Cash will not be accepted.

CASH OR CREDIT?

Credit. All official SU parking lots are now cashless (though there may be some cash options near campus). Everything inside the Dome is also cashless, including the merchandise stands. Beverages, including alcohol, will be grab-and-go.

CLEAR BAG POLICY

The Dome’s Clear Bag Policy will be in effect. Therefore, one clear bag and one small clutch or purse is allowed. Fans will be asked to return non-approved bags to their vehicle prior to stadium entry. There will be no check-in location for prohibited bags at the Stadium. Please plan accordingly.

An exception will be made for medically necessary items after proper inspection.

ITEMS NOT ALLOWED

Metal detectors will be in use. The following items are not permitted:

• Audio Recording Devices
• Vinyl Album Covers
• Pocket Knives
• Weapons of any kind
• FOOD & BEVERAGES (excluding items needed for health/special reasons)
• ALCOHOL of any Kind
• BACKPACKS or large purses
• Containers/Coolers (including soft sided)
• Baby Strollers
• Animals (excluding service animals)
• Laser Pointers
• Noise Makers/Air Horns
• Video Recorders (including Go Pros)
• Cameras with a lens 6″ or greater
• Large Chains
• Spiked Bracelets
• Wallet Chains
• Waist Packs
• Selfie Sticks

When will the concert end?

According to Syracuse University, the concert is expected to end between 10 and 11 p.m. At Monday’s MVP Arena concert in Albany, Springsteen reportedly played for 2 hours and 45 minutes. If the Syracuse show starts at 7:30, expect the Boss to be rocking until about 10:15 p.m.

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