{"id":10210,"date":"2026-04-14T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/springsteen-center-music-america\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:44:00","slug":"springsteen-center-music-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/springsteen-center-music-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Springsteen Center Sets All-Star \u2018Music America\u2019 Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1352185071-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"Bruce Springsteen\"><figcaption>(photo: Jamie McCarthy \/ Staff)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music isn\u2019t easing into its grand opening. Instead, it\u2019s kicking the doors in with a two-night, all-star history lesson. Dubbed Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us, the June 4\u20135 blowout at OceanFirst Bank Center in West Long Branch, N.J., doubles as both a semiquincentennial celebration and the centerpiece lead-in to the Center\u2019s official ribbon-cutting on June 7.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup reads like a Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame seating chart, as it will feature Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Jackson Browne, Public Enemy, Mavis Staples, Gary Clark Jr., Kenny Chesney, Rosanne Cash, Trombone Shorty and E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, whose Disciples of Soul will serve as the house band.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/american-football-lp4\/\">The House Still Stands, But American Football Has Moved On<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/questlove-earth-wind-and-fire-tribeca\/\">Questlove\u2019s Earth, Wind &amp; Fire Doc Bound For Tribeca<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/04\/jeff-tweedy-hayley-williams-colbert\/\">Jeff Tweedy, Hayley Williams Team On \u2018Colbert\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each act will tackle landmark songs from across American music history, with narration setting the scene before each performance, tickets for which will be sold separately. <a href=\"https:\/\/springsteencenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for seats, which go on sale April 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a journey through American music history,\u201d said Center executive director Robert Santelli. \u201cThe concerts reflect everything the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music stands for: the power of music to bring people together, the rich and diverse treasury of American music as a mirror of our national culture and the inspiration to think about our shared history in these divisive times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Center has been rolling out its Music America banner since 2024, including the traveling exhibition Iconic Objects from America\u2019s Music History. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/02\/springsteen-center-honors\/\">as previously reported<\/a>, the Center will pay tribute to Dionne Warwick, Patti Smith, Dr. Dre, the E Street Band and the Doors at its fourth annual American Music Honors, which will take place April 18 at Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Jamie McCarthy \/ Staff) The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music isn\u2019t easing into its grand opening. Instead, it\u2019s kicking the doors in with a two-night, all-star history lesson.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3483,5869,6,1792,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-springsteen","category-jon-bon-jovi","category-kenny-chesney","category-news","category-public-enemy","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}