Bruce Springsteen

The National Medal of the Arts is the highest American award given to artists, art patrons and groups that have advanced arts in the United States. This year, ...

Author Walter Isaacson, who served as the chair and CEO of CNN from 2001-2003, received the medal as well. Tuesday’s ceremony was among the backlog of White House events postponed during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the White House. That’s stamped into the DNA of America,” Biden said during the ceremony in the East Room.

Bruce Springsteen is receiving a major honor today (March 21) at the White House: The National Medal of the Arts.

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Mindy Kaling, Vera Wang and Julia Louis-Dreyfus also make the cut.

— The president surprised Sir Elton John with a National Humanities Medal during a White House musical event last September. First lady Jill Biden will also participate. It’s the nation’s highest award for advancing the arts in America. He has won multiple Grammys and Golden Globes, plus an Academy Award and a special Tony Award. — Bruce Springsteen:.

President Biden awarded Bruce Springsteen the National Medal Of Arts today at the White House East Room in a ceremony that also presented the National ...

[rescheduled tour dates](https://www.stereogum.com/2216650/bruce-springsteen-tour-cancelations-illness/news/) for the postponed performances last week in Columbus, Uncasville, and Albany. “Bruce, some people are just born to run, man,” Biden said upon awarding Springsteen the Arts medal, which is the US government’s highest arts award. Biden Awards Bruce Springsteen National Medal Of Arts

Fans of Bruce Springsteen, who built his career on his working-class image, are dismayed by the sky-high ticket prices for his tour with the E Street Band.

I want to do what everybody else is doing, my peers.’ So that’s what happened. [told Rolling Stone last year: ](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bruce-springsteen-covers-lp-fan-outrage-ticket-prices-1234632658/)“I tell my guys, ‘Go out and see what everybody else is doing. “It’s just so out of character for what he was. It’s been great for the fans. The guys are there. For the past 49 years or however long we’ve been playing, we’ve pretty much been out there under market value.

At TD Garden, Bruce Springsteen delivered a 27-song, 2-hour-and-50-minute performance with the E Street Band.

When the time came for the band’s story-in-song on “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out,” Springsteen snagged a leather jacket offered to him by a fan offstage. As the song simmered to its close, Springsteen recalled the books, 45s, and guitar Theiss left behind. Original saxophonist and Big Man Clarence Clemons has been gone from Springsteen’s side for over a decade now as well, his lacking presence still palpable even in the continuing intensity of the band’s live performance. “It gives you pause to think, brings a clarity of thought and a clarity of purpose … Following his vocal tribute to Theiss in “Last Man Standing,” Springsteen brought the crowd to another summer scene — “Backstreets,” a tale of a “hot infested summer” filled with the big, broken promises of adolescence and another sacred oath: “You swore we’d live forever, taking it on them backstreeets together.” Despite a forced A 50-minute encore brought the expected marathon of hits, from “Born to Run” and “Glory Days,” and featured [“Springsteen on Broadway,”](https://www.netflix.com/title/80232329) since his last string of dates with the band, this tour suggests Springsteen is now turning his intense contemplation to the next era of life’s natural progression. Monday’s setlist jammed in fan favorites, from the relentless drum of desire in “Candy’s Room” to a Nils Lofgren guitar-charged “Because the Night,” and sing-along staples such as “She’s the One,” “Out in the Street,” and “Badlands.” In-between was Springsteen’s full array of the American persona in music, including a honky-tonk-heavy “Johnny 99” and the beach-town funk groove of “The E Street Shuffle.” [“Last Man Standing”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE6l-_g814I) — an emotional peak of 2020’s “Letter to You” — and formed the core of the very-much-still-beating heart of Springsteen’s setlist at TD Garden Monday night, where the Boss delivered a 27-song, 2-hour-and-50-minute performance with the E Street Band, his usual lineup enhanced by a horn section, an extra percussionist, and four backup singers. “It was there that I embarked on the greatest adventure of my young life,” Springsteen, now 73, with an acoustic guitar at his waist and harmonica strapped to his neck, recalled to the crowd in Boston.

The band is continuing their first US tour since 2016 after a brief illness-related delay.

Teebe was excited for her to see the show, asserting that “it’ll change her life.” I’m getting up there like Bruce, and he’s the first musician, or first rock musician, I was ever really into, and I just keep coming back to see him [...] it’s life-changing.” Schneier then urged Bonnie Raitt’s management to book Springsteen to open for her in May 1974 at the Harvard Square Theatre. The band was in a space maybe 10 feet by 10 feet in the corner — [theoriginal E Street Band. Meanwhile, the deeply personal “Last Man Standing” from Springsteen’s 2020 album “Letter to You,” was stripped back from its full-band studio version to just feature Springsteen on guitar. Crowd favorite hits mixed with deep cuts and covers, including a nod to Boston with a rendition of The Standells’ “Dirty Water.”

Bruce Springsteen belts out a blistering 28-song, 2-hour-and-50-minute concert at TD Garden in Boston, including a cover of 'Dirty Water.'

That ended the "regular set," but the band didn't leave the stage, and simply dimmed the lights for a couple of minutes before returning for the encores. "Dancing in the Dark" was just a joyful outburst, and by the time Springsteen capped the intro to "Tenth Avenue Freezeout" by ripping his shirt open, the crowd was howling nonstop. "Dirty Water" was pure fun, and "Thunder Road" had the singer letting the crowd sing most of the lines back at him. "Because the Night" was passionate, and "She's the One" rode Weinberg's booming tom-toms. "The E Street Shuffle" had a superb new arrangement, turning it into loosey-goosey, syncopated dancefloor fun, as Springsteen gleefully marched in place at his mike stand. The quartet of backing singers was effective all night, and Springsteen turned "The Night Shift," the classic soul cover, into a nifty duet with King. The midtempo run through "Letter to You" was a sizzling chance for fans to catch their breath before "Promised Land" blasted off, another pulsating anthem of the promise of youth. But that's too simple, and the aura of empathy is also a crucial component – symbolized Monday by the volunteers collecting donations for the Boston Food Bank at the show, or Springsteen dedicating "Thunder Road" to employees of Dana-Farber. After that smooth soul nugget with King, the cathartic "Trapped" rode Giordano's organ lines to some of the audience's most impassioned singalong. Springsteen introduced it by relating the story of how he joined his first band at age 15, spending three years with The Castiles, named after a shampoo. Among the postponed dates was a stop at the Mohegan Sun Arena, and that has now been rescheduled for Sept. Fans here and there might quibble about what tunes are played versus ones that aren't ("Hungry Heart" made its first appearance on this tour on the show before Boston, at State College, Pennsylvania, but was not in Monday's set), but as E Street guitarist Steven Van Zandt has explained on his social media, Springsteen is using his autobiographical Broadway show as a sort of framework for these shows, giving a view of his career, as he sees it, in retrospect.

In a brief ceremony in the East Room of The White House, Bruce Springsteen has been awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Joe Biden.

Apr 11: Belmont Park USB Arena, NY Apr 09: Belmont Park USB Arena, NY Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's US tour continues, and will climax with a New Jersey show at the Prudential Center in Newark on April 14, before heading to Europe for a run of European stadium shows.

President Joe Biden teased a 2024 run during a White House awards ceremony, telling Bruce Springsteen: "Some people are born to run."

"I'm gonna talk to Julia later whether she liked being VP or president better," he joked. I'm kinda looking for back-to-back myself," Biden said, prompting a loud applause. "How in the hell did you do that?

When presenting novelist Colson Whitehead - who has won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes - at the National Medal of the Arts ceremony, the US president said: ...

[Donald Trump](https://news.sky.com/topic/donald-trump-5711), who Mr Biden beat in the 2020 presidential election, has already said he is seeking to return to the White House at the next election. [Springsteen](https://news.sky.com/topic/bruce-springsteen-8194) was recognised at the National Medal of the Arts ceremony for "his extraordinary contributions to the American songbook". When presenting novelist Colson Whitehead - who has won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes - at the National Medal of the Arts ceremony, the US president said: "I'm kind of looking for a back-to-back myself."