Bruce Springsteen – Credit: Greg Allen/Invision/APBruce Springsteen has announced the dates for his long-awaited 2023 North American tour with the E Street Band. It kicks off on Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, and wraps up on April 14 in Newark, New Jersey. Ticket sales begin July 20.Springsteen last played a concert with the E Street Band when their River tour wrapped up on Feb. 25, 2017, at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. But they haven’t played in North America since September 2016, and their sole live performance of any sort in the past five years took place in 2020 when they did two songs on Saturday Night Live to promote Letter To You. This has been their longest period of time off from the road since Springsteen reunited with the band in 1999 following an 11-year hiatus where he toured both solo and with another backing group.More from Rolling StoneThey were originally slated to hit the road in 2020 to support Letter To You, and dates were later penciled in for 2022, but the pandemic forced them to ultimately delay the tour until 2023. “I’m just aching to play,” Springsteen told SiriusXM’s E Street Radio earlier this year. “Not just play but to travel and see our fans in all those distant cities.”In that same interview, he said the tour would be a mixture of classics and selections from his newer albums. “it will have a significant amount of some recent material, and then, of course, we’ll play a lot of the music that fans have become familiar with and love to hear,” he said. “It should be a balance… the show should feel contemporary, and it should also make you feel at home at the same time.”That doesn’t mean he’ll attempt to play many songs from Western Stars. “I’d like to keep it a rock show,” he said. “Once you’re out in an arena or stadium, people have come to see a rock ‘n’ roll show… But you never know, something may squeak in there from that record. It’s not impossible. That one, I’m gonna have to wait and see.”Story continuesThe tour heads to Europe for a run of stadium shows that run from April 28 through July 25. It then heads back to America for a late summer/early fall stadium run, though those dates have yet to be announced.Here are Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s complete North American tour dates.February 1, 2023 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie ArenaFebruary 3 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm ArenaFebruary 5 – Orlando, FL @ Amway CenterFebruary 7 – Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock LiveFebruary 10 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines CenterFebruary 14 – Houston, TX @ Toyota CenterFebruary 16 – Austin, TX @ Moody CenterFebruary 18 – Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile CenterFebruary 21 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK CenterFebruary 25 – Portland, OR @ Moda CenterFebruary 27 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge ArenaMarch 2 – Denver, CO @ Ball ArenaMarch 5 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy CenterMarch 7 – Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv ForumMarch 9 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide ArenaMarch 12 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan SunMarch 14 – Albany, NY @ MVP ArenaMarch 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo CenterMarch 18 – State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan CenterMarch 20 – Boston, MA @ TD GardenMarch 23 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank CenterMarch 25 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro ColiseumMarch 27 – Washington D.C. @ Capital One ArenaMarch 29 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars ArenaApril 1 – New York, NY @ Madison Square GardenApril 3 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays CenterApril 5 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouseApril 7 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore ArenaApril 9 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS ArenaApril 11 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS ArenaApril 14 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center Best of Rolling StoneClick here to read the full article.
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