Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band Announce United States Tour

Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band are bringing their politically charged Land of Hope and Goals tour to North America within the spring for a run of area and stadium dates. It kicks off March 31 in Minneapolis on the Goal Heart and wraps up Might 27 at Nationals Park in Washington, DC Ticket gross sales begin on Friday.

“We live via darkish, disturbing and harmful occasions, however don’t despair — the cavalry is coming!” Springsteen says in an announcement. “Bruce Springsteen and The E Avenue Band will probably be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, DC for the Land of Hope And Goals American Tour. We will probably be rocking your city in celebration and in protection of America — American democracy, American freedom, our American Structure and our sacred American dream — all of that are below assault by our wannabe king and his rogue authorities in Washington, DC Everybody, no matter the place you stand or what you consider in, is welcome — so come on out and be part of the United Free Republic of E Avenue Nation for an American spring of Rock ‘n’ Riot! I am going to see you there!”

Final summer time, Springsteen and the E Avenue band performed stadiums in Europe on the preliminary leg of the Land of Hope and Goals tour. “The mighty E Avenue Band is right here tonight to name upon the righteous energy of artwork, of music, of rock & roll, in harmful occasions,” he informed the group on opening evening. “In my dwelling, the America I really like, the America I’ve written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is at present within the fingers of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who consider in democracy and the perfect of our American expertise to rise with us, elevate your voices in opposition to the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring. That is ‘Land of Hope and Goals.'”

This came about earlier than Donald Trump flooded Minneapolis with ICE officers, ensuing within the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Springsteen responded to the tragedies with the protest music “Streets of Minneapolis,” which he carried out Jan. 30 throughout a shock look at Tom Morello’s A Live performance of Solidarity & Resistance to Defend Minnesota! on the Minneapolis membership First Avenue.

Earlier that month, Springsteen made a visitor look on the annual Gentle of Days profit live performance. “Proper now we live via extremely vital occasions,” he mentioned that evening. “America, the beliefs and the worth for which it stood for the previous 250 years, is being examined prefer it has by no means been in trendy occasions. These values ​​and people beliefs have by no means been as endangered as they’re proper now.”

“If you happen to consider within the energy of legislation and that nobody stands above it,” he continued, “when you stand in opposition to heavily-armed masked federal troops invading an American metropolis, utilizing gestapo techniques in opposition to our fellow residents, when you consider you do not should be murdered for exercising your American proper to protest, then ship a message to this president, because the mayor of the town mentioned: ICE ought to get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

If Springsteen sticks to roughly the identical set as Europe final summer time, anticipate loads of politically-themed songs like “Rainmaker,” “Lengthy Stroll Dwelling,” and Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom.” It is also a near-certainty he’ll play “Streets of Minneapolis” as properly. The routing itself sends a message by starting in Minneapolis and wrapping up close to Trump’s yard in DC

Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band’s Land of Hope and Goals 2026 tour dates:

March 31 – Minneapolis, MN @ Goal Heart
April 3 – Portland, OR @ Moda Heart
April 7 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Discussion board
April 9 – Inglewood, CA @ Kia Discussion board
April 13 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Heart
April 16 – Phoenix, AZ @ Mortgage Matchup Heart
April 20 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Heart
April 23 – Dawn, FL @ Amerant Financial institution Area
April 26 – Austin, TX @ Moody Heart
April 29 – Chicago, IL @ United Heart
Might 2 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Area
Might 5 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Area
Might 8 – Philadelphia, PA @ Xfinity Cell Area
Might 11 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Backyard
Might 14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Heart
Might 16 – New York, NY @ Madison Sq. Backyard
Might 19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ PPG Paints Area
Might 24 – Boston, MA @ TD Backyard
Might 27 – Washington, DC @ Nationals Park