June 17, 2026 Bruce Springsteen certainly has come a long way from his days of playing supermarket grand openings with his early band The Castiles to the public opening of a new building named after himself - The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, of course - just last weekend. But tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, he'll help to open a building quite unlike any he's ever helped to open before: his first-ever gig at a U.S. Presidential Center's opening. Springsteen will b

photo by Mark Krajnak June 14, 2026 Below is our transcription of the narration provided by Bruce Springsteen for Thom Zimny's short introductory film The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen’s American Music Journey, now playing exclusively in The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's Powell Soundstage theater: Welcome to New Jersey, the place where I was born, raised, loved, loathed, left, and returned to, and where I'll probably spend the rest of my life. Now I've bee

photo by Mark Krajnak June 13, 2026 Letters To You contributing photographer Mark Krajnak and I were fortunate to be granted a special advance tour of The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's new building, almost two weeks before its official public opening today. On June 3, the Center's Director of Curatorial Affairs, Melissa Kozlowski, and its Museum Educator, Aidan Vogel, were kind enough to give Mark and me a guided, private tour, even as they and the rest of the

June 12, 2026 As The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's official public opening occurs this weekend, Letters To You is presenting a three-part series of reports on the recent events that have led up to the big day. Here in Part 1, we cover the series of special concerts that the Center has held in anticipation of its public opening... ---------- photo by Melissa Lawlor - courtesy of The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music May 29, 2026 - America 250: A Jerse