{"id":2449912,"date":"2026-06-08T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2449912"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:19:17","slug":"springsteen-leads-star-studded-music-america-celebration-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/springsteen-leads-star-studded-music-america-celebration-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Springsteen Leads Star-Studded Music America Celebration in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><b>Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> brought a wide mix of American music to Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, on Friday, June 5. Organizers presented the concert as part of the lead-up to the public opening of the <\/span><b>Bruce Springsteen <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Center for American Music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event\u2019s lineup reflected the show\u2019s broad theme, with Bruce Springsteen joined by J<\/span><b>on Bon Jovi, Public Enemy, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, Gary Clark Jr., Darlene Love, Nils Lofgren, Stevie Van Zandt <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and others. The Disciples of Soul served as the house band for the night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concert focused on songs and styles that helped shape American popular music, moving through rock, soul, folk, blues, gospel and hip-hop. Springsteen appeared throughout the evening in several collaborations, while Public Enemy represented hip-hop with Fight the Power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two-night Music America event was tied to the center\u2019s grand opening week and to the larger celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source vermilioncountyfirst.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us brought a wide mix of American music to Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, on Friday, June 5. Organizers presented the concert as part of the lead-up to the public opening of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music. The event\u2019s lineup reflected the show\u2019s broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2449913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22764,21738,406745,426743],"class_list":["post-2449912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-vermilion-county","tag-vermilion-county-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Springsteen-Leads-Star-Studded-Music-America-Celebration-in-New-Jersey.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449914,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449912\/revisions\/2449914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}