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Simply 48 hours after a present in San Diego and fewer than 24 hours earlier than he’s set to carry out at San Francisco’s Chase Middle, Bruce Springsteen logged some severe (personal) air miles for a shock efficiency at nation celebrity Zach Bryan‘s live performance at Brooklyn’s Barclays Middle on Wednesday night time.
Bryan, sporting a Springsteen shirt, welcomed the 74-year-old Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer to the stage for a efficiency of his new, unreleased music “Sandpaper” in addition to Bryan’s music “Revival.” Springsteen traded lyrics with Bryan on the previous and took a solo on his famed, battered Fender guitar for “Revival.”
Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers, who’s featured on Bryan’s “Dawns,” carried out that music with the headliner earlier within the night and joined him for the encores with Springsteen.
Whereas the live performance presumably wasn’t the one cause Springsteen flew cross-country, his historical past has proven he’ll choose up a guitar and be part of a pal onstage every time he has time.
Earlier this month, Bryan broke an attendance report in Springsteen’s dwelling state of New Jersey on the Prudential Middle in Newark on March 15. Bryan’s “Quittin Time” tour marked the best attendance ever for a single present within the Newark enviornment’s 16-plus yr historical past with 19,151 visitors in attendance.
Springsteen and the E Avenue Band’s 2024 tour consists partially of dates he’d rescheduled from final yr after struggling a peptic ulcer. The dates within the U.S. are in two teams: a month-long swing happening in mid-March by mid-April, adopted by a second month’s value of reveals in mid-August by mid-September, with European reveals coming in-between.
Shortly after the primary batch of dates concludes, the artist will seem at Monmouth College on April 24 for the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Middle for American Music’s second annual American Music Honors occasion, honoring John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples and Dion DiMucci. Stevie Van Zandt’s Disciples of Soul will function the occasion’s home band. Award presenters embody Springsteen and Jon Landau and 2023 American Music Honors recipients Van Zandt and Darlene Love.