{"id":8694,"date":"2026-02-10T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/springsteen-center-honors\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:40:13","slug":"springsteen-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/springsteen-center-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Springsteen Center Honoring Dr. Dre, Patti Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2207112610-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and students from Music Will perform during &#8220;People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith&#8221; at New York&#8217;s Carnegie Hall on March 26, 2025 (photo: Taylor Hill \/ Getty Images).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bruce Springsteen Archives &amp; Center for American Music 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 in West Long Branch, N.J.<\/p>\n<p>A posthumous tribute to the Band is also on tap for the event, which will be hosted by journalist and longtime Springsteen fan Brian Williams. In addition to his E Street Band honor, guitarist Steven Van Zandt\u2019s Disciples of Soul will function as the house band.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/baby-keem-new-album\/\">Baby Keem Cashes In With Kendrick On \u2018Ca$ino\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/muna-new-single-album\/\">MUNA Chases Fantasies On \u2018Dancing On The Wall\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/jimmy-eat-world-bleed-american-at-25\/\">Jimmy Eat World Fetes \u2018Bleed American\u2019 At 25<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Springsteen will present to Warwick and Smith, the latter of whom broke through with her 1978 cover of the Boss\u2019 \u201cBecause the Night.\u201d Longtime Springsteen manager Jon Landau will fete the E Street Band, Jimmy Iovine will honor Dr. Dre and Van Zandt will salute the Doors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springsteencenter.org\/american-music-honors-2026\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a> go on sale March 18. Proceeds will benefit the Springsteen Center\u2019s mission to not only preserve artifacts related to the Springsteen\u2019s career but also produce exhibitions and other programs celebrating American music in all its forms. Previous honorees include Darlene Love, Mavis Staples, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris and Tom Morello.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe artists we\u2019re honoring this year didn\u2019t just shape popular music \u2014 they helped define it,\u201d says founding director Robert Santelli. \u201cTheir work reflects the creativity, risk-taking and cultural exchange that sit at the heart of American music, and it\u2019s a privilege to celebrate their legacies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.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>Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and students from Music Will perform during &#8220;People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith&#8221; at New York&#8217;s Carnegie Hall on March 26, 2025 (photo:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4281,1789,6,2323,24,903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-springsteen","category-dionne-warwick","category-dr-dre","category-news","category-patti-smith","category-pushly","category-the-doors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","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=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}