Friday, December 4, 2015

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Announce 2016 The River Tour

Bruce Springsteen & Stevie Van Zandt (r) visit Verizon Center, January 29, 2016

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Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band announce 2016 The River Tour

Date set for January 29, 2016 at Verizon Center; Tickets go on sale, December 11

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band launch The River Tour, a nine-week U.S. trek, on January 16 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The announcement of the tour coincides with today's release of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection, a comprehensive look at the era of the 1980 The River album that Rolling Stone calls "Springsteen's best archival release yet."

Springsteen precedes the tour with a December 19 performance on "Saturday Night Live," his third appearance on the NBC show.



The River Tour (#TheRiverTour) is the first for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band since the 2014 High Hopes Tour.

Each night of the tour will be mixed for release on Live.BruceSpringsteen.net as high-quality downloads and CDs. Recordings will be available within days of each performance.

The original The River Tour began October 3, 1980, two weeks before the release of Springsteen's fifth album, and continued through September 4, 1981. With sets that regularly approached the four-hour range, the 140-date international tour firmly established a reputation for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as marathon performers.

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection includes 52 tracks on four CDs with a wealth of unreleased material and four hours of never-before-seen video on three DVDs. It contains the original The River double album; the first official release of The River: Single Album; a CD of 1979/80 studio outtakes; a brand-new documentary about The River; and a coffee-table book of 200 rare or previously unseen photos and memorabilia, with a new essay by Mikal Gilmore. The set also includes a two-DVD film of never-released, newly edited multi-camera footage from a November 1980 show in Tempe, Arizona, described by NPR as a "holy grail."

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection is available at Amazon ( 4CD/3DVD or 4CD/2Blu-ray - http://smarturl.it/tiesthatbind_amz) and iTunes (http://smarturl.it/tiesthatbind_itunes.)

The E Street Band's members are: Roy Bittan - piano, synthesizer; Nils Lofgren - guitar, vocals; Patti Scialfa - guitar, vocals; Garry Tallent - bass guitar; Stevie Van Zandt - guitar, vocals; and Max Weinberg - drums; with Soozie Tyrell - violin, guitar, vocals; Jake Clemons - saxophone; and Charlie Giordano - keyboards.

Tickets to The River Tour go on sale December 11.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 2016 US Tour Dates
(All dates, venues and on-sale information are subject to change.)



Date, City, Venue


January 16, Pittsburgh, PA, Consol Energy Center
January 19, Chicago, IL, United Center
January 24 & 27, New York, NY, Madison Square Garden
January 29, Washington, DC, Verizon Center
January 31, Newark, NJ, Prudential Center
February 2, Toronto, ON, Air Canada Centre
February 4, Boston, MA, TD Garden
February 8, Albany, NY, Times Union Center
February 10, Hartford, CT, XL Center
February 12, Philadelphia, PA, Wells Fargo Center
February 16, Sunrise, FL, BB&T Center
February 18, Atlanta, GA, Philips Arena
February 21, Louisville, KY, KFC Yum! Center
February 23, Cleveland, OH, Quicken Loans Arena
February 25, Buffalo, NY, First Niagara Center
February 27, Rochester, NY, Blue Cross Arena
February 29, St. Paul, MN, Xcel Energy Center
March 3, Milwaukee, WI, BMO Harris Bradley Center
March 6, St Louis, MO, Chaifetz Arena
March 10, Phoenix, AZ, Talking Stick Resort Arena
March 13, Oakland, CA, Oracle Arena
March 15 & 17, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena