{"id":2454682,"date":"2026-06-11T14:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2454682"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:32:16","slug":"bruce-springsteen-talks-new-center-how-music-can-build-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruce-springsteen-talks-new-center-how-music-can-build-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen talks new center, how music can build community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><story-emphasis util-module-path=\"elements\/story\" section=\"entertainment\" link=\"\/entertainment\" premium-content=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"colorbar\" style=\"background:#009bff\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"display-5 subhead spacer-small\">Nine-minute read<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"90499226007\" title=\"Bruce Springsteen Center ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6, 2026\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438209007-bruce-260606-k.jpg?crop=3299,1856,x0,y0\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Bruce Springsteen Center ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6, 2026 at Monmouth University in Long Branch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p><story-highlights class=\"spacer-small column ten-column no-gutter\" util-module-path=\"elements\/story\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has opened on the campus of Monmouth University in Long Branch.<\/li>\n<li>Springsteen stated that music builds community and tells people they are not alone.<\/li>\n<li>The facility was celebrated with two nights of concerts featuring artists like Jon Bon Jovi, Public Enemy and Sheryl Crow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/story-highlights><partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>They\u2019re building a community.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>The new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/06\/bruce-springsteen-monmouth-university-center-ribbon-cutting\/90438434007\/\">Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music<\/a> on the campus of Monmouth University in Long Branch is a place to make connections, Springsteen said in an exclusive phone interview Tuesday, June 9, with the Asbury Park Press.<\/p>\n<p>Music has that power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic always has a message. It tells you you are not alone,\u201d Springsteen, 76, said. \u201cWhatever you\u2019re feeling, whatever you\u2019re thinking about, you are not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The center, which opens to the public on June 13, has exhibition galleries, research archives, immersive interactive experiences, a performance theater and a gift shop with Springsteen merch from all phases of the Boss\u2019 career.<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438148007-bruce-260606-eee.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438148007-bruce-260606-eee.jpg?crop=3191,2392,x54,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438148007-bruce-260606-eee.jpg?crop=1794,2392,x330,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438148007-bruce-260606-eee.jpg?crop=3299,1856,x0,y268 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Peter Ackerman, Asbury Park Press\" caption=\"(L-R) Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa at the Ribbon Cutting ceremony for the Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University in Long Branch on June 6, 2026.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Downstairs tells the story of American music and upstairs it\u2019s Springsteen and the E Street Band.<\/p>\n<p>The center\u2019s leadership includes Robert Santelli, executive director; Eileen Chapman, director; and Melissa Kozlowski, director of curatorial affairs. The $50 million wood-accented building was designed by Rick Cook of CookFox Architects, based in New York.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"90390937007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Springsteen also spoke about how music saved him from isolation; the recent biopic, \u201cSpringsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere;\u201d how Monmouth University has become a creative hub for him, and the recent Springsteen Center\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/06\/bruce-springsteen-bon-jovi-concert-monmouth-university\/90422807007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us<\/a> concerts at Monmouth University on June 4 and 5.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Public Enemy, Little Steven Van Zandt, Sheryl Crow, Jackson Browne, Kenny Chesney, Rosanne Cash, Dropkick Murphys and more played, and Santelli emceed the concerts over two nights at the OceanFirst Bank Center on the university\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n<p><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">More: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/06\/11\/springsteen-center-artifacts-highlight-his-new-jersey-roots\/90488647007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">These NJ artifacts at Springsteen Center show his Garden State roots<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shows produced by the Springsteen Center, like the America Music concerts, can be viewed at the center&#8217;s archives.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here\u2019s the interview:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> What do you feel is the most important thing for visitors at the new center?<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> I feel the most important thing is the historical context of the impact of all these musicians have had on American culture. I think you come in and you\u2019re on that bottom floor and you get to see all those wonderful exhibits, Louie Armstrong\u2019s trumpet, Frank Sinatra\u2019s tuxedo, you get a sense of pre-rock era American music, and to me that\u2019s the idea of it, being a long chain of people who dedicated their hearts and souls and spirits to shaping American culture. I think I\u2019d like kids to come out with this historical perspective on the importance of music in the American life.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I got a sense of another important thing is the sense of music as a community builder. We live in an era, like you said on (the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/05\/31\/bruce-springsteen-tour-2026-philly-philadelphia-bruce-springsteen-philly-setlist\/90332325007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour<\/a>), where we\u2019re kind of becoming distant from each other &#8230; Music, as you view it and maybe a lot of other people view it, it builds a sense of community. It builds a connection that we\u2019re losing. We\u2019re becoming untethered to our communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> Live music is one of the few things (that), one, it demands that you come out of your house. It demands you pretty much shut off your screens for a while. It demands that you gather together with your neighbors. Then the shows itself are sort of a true melting pot of American culture.<\/p>\n<p>If you were at the university over the weekend (at the Springsteen Center\u2019s Music America concerts) you saw all kinds of music made by all kinds of people. Then you saw those people playing and singing together. There is something egalitarian, democratic and incredibly positive in that experience.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>To me, the weekend was wonderful because, gee, you got Jonny Bon Jovi, you got Public Enemy, you got Mavis Staples, Kenny Chesney, I mean the net was cast over such a wide group of American musicians that it was a wonderful time. So yeah, I think music fights against isolation. This loneliness, it is something that when you arrive at a concert or even when you put something on in your own home, music always has a message \u2014 it tells you you are not alone. Whatever you\u2019re feeling, whatever you\u2019re thinking about, you are not alone. You are not alone.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/10\/PAPP\/90489090007-img-6549.jpeg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/10\/PAPP\/90489090007-img-6549.jpeg?crop=3984,2987,x192,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/10\/PAPP\/90489090007-img-6549.jpeg?crop=2241,2987,x1064,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/10\/PAPP\/90489090007-img-6549.jpeg?crop=4368,2457,x0,y265 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Carly Cavanaugh\/Asbury Park Press\" caption=\"&quot;Bruce Springsteen at Monmouth&quot; display at the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music on Monmouth University's campus.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I got from the movie \u201cDeliver Me from Nowhere\u201d a message of stay away from extreme isolation. Even back then (in the early \u201980s) you were kind of ringing the bell about that. It\u2019s not healthy to get too withdrawn into yourself. We\u2019re all connected here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> I was brought up to be, for better or worse, I was a loner throughout a lot of my young life. Psychologically that was where I was set. So music was the one thing that drew me out of that. I put together a <em>band<\/em>. If you go out to a concert, you are in <em>concert<\/em> with your audience. You are engaging in conversation with <em>thousands<\/em> of people on a nightly basis and I found that gave me a psychological balance that I did not have previously in my character and in my personality.<\/p>\n<p>I think the film was watching somebody come back from those tendencies and that experience, so I\u2019ve been lucky that I had music throughout my life. When I started to play music, it was the first time I began to feel a part of something. My first community was I went over Tex Vinyard\u2019s house in Freehold, New Jersey, in a dining room with six other guys and we started to play together. That was the first community I ever truly felt a part of and that\u2019s led me to feeling that community with the entire nation and the entire world. It\u2019s always been a balm for my natural tendencies toward isolation.<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438298007-bruce-260606-ab.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438298007-bruce-260606-ab.jpg?crop=2002,1501,x825,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438298007-bruce-260606-ab.jpg?crop=1126,1501,x1320,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90438298007-bruce-260606-ab.jpg?crop=2670,1501,x629,y0 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Peter Ackerman\/Asbury Park Press\" caption=\"Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music on Monmouth University Campus in Long Branch NJ.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Physically in (the Springsteen Center), there\u2019s so many wonderful things you see and the way it\u2019s set up you\u2019ll see something that will trigger you in a good way and you\u2019re right next to somebody. There\u2019s no long hallways to see an exhibit at the center and you\u2019re cordoned off from everybody. It\u2019s a community experience there.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> The center was designed to be a place that brings people together. Once we get rolling, the educational projects that they\u2019re going to have there, it\u2019s a place that\u2019s going to bring a community together. It was designed for that and that\u2019s one of the things I cherished the most about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: <\/strong>Monmouth University has been a real creative hub for you, I\u2019d say in the last 10 years? You did a few rehearsal shows for \u201cSpringsteen on Broadway\u201d there. The American Music Honors (concert at the university\u2019s Pollak Theatre), correct me if I\u2019m wrong on this, when two years ago <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/04\/27\/bruce-springsteen-archives-american-music-honors-awards-show-2025\/83273223007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tom Morello sang the great Woody Guthrie song<\/a> ( \u201cThis Land Is Your Land\u201d), that seemed to chart your course for the next two tours to include an activist message with the show?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> I have to salute Pat Leahy (Monmouth University president), who simply came in and was an incredibly powerful force in engaging us with the university. He was just all in on what we wanted us to do and he wanted us to be a part of the university and of the campus. He\u2019s been an incredible partner, of course with Eileen Chapman and Bob Santelli, they\u2019ve been incredible partners in engaging us with the university to put on these incredible events.<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90433485007-bruce-elvis.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90433485007-bruce-elvis.jpg?crop=1919,1439,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90433485007-bruce-elvis.jpg?crop=1080,1439,x420,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/06\/PAPP\/90433485007-bruce-elvis.jpg?crop=1919,1081,x0,y179 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Chris Jordan\/Asbury Park Press\" caption=\"Bruce Springsteen sings &quot;Jailhouse Rock&quot; at the June 5, 2026 Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us concert at the OceanFirst Bank Center on the campus of Monmouth University.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> It\u2019s a moment of trust for you, giving Bob, Eileen and Melissa the reins. This is the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music and your name\u2019s on there and that seems like quite a moment for you.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> It was something I initially had a bit of ambivalence about \u2014 gee, you\u2019re building a building with my name on it, all of that stuff. I knew I don\u2019t know how to put together a center. I have no particular skills in that area. So I was going to have to trust somebody completely and Bob and Eileen and everybody over there really ran with the ball and they built the center.<\/p>\n<p>The sensitivities, they were really aware of my own sensibility in how the center should feel, what it should deliver. I have salute to them completely because I\u2019m on the road, I\u2019m making records, they really put it together with such sensitivity and intelligence that it really reflects who I am and my philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/05\/PAPP\/90422951007-bruceline.JPG bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/05\/PAPP\/90422951007-bruceline.JPG?crop=4607,3455,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/05\/PAPP\/90422951007-bruceline.JPG?crop=2592,3455,x1152,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/05\/PAPP\/90422951007-bruceline.JPG?crop=4607,2593,x0,y431 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Provided by John Cavanaugh\/Springsteen Center\" caption=\"Bruce Springsteen in a second line march led by Trombone Shorty at the Bruce Springsteen Center For American Music's Music America concert June 4, 2026 at Monmouth University.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I always enjoy talking to the (students) there. They\u2019re smart, they\u2019re engaged, they\u2019re no dummies and they really seem to get it.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> It\u2019s great to have the students involved. It\u2019s another plus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Those (Music America) shows were so good, man, I don\u2019t know where to start. Let me ask you this, any thoughts on taking the Bruce Springsteen Center American Music roadshow on the road?<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> (Laughs) The fun thing about the shows was it was like the old Alan Freed shows. People come up, they do a song or two, then they leave and that\u2019s how the old rock \u2019n\u2019 roll shows were. But I don\u2019t think we have any plans to take it on the road at the moment. It\u2019s kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> It was great and Marc (Ribler, music director) and the augmented Disciples of Soul \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> I can\u2019t tell you how difficult and how impressed I was by Marc Ribler and the Disciples of Soul. They had to learn all kinds of music, get deep into it, to survive over those two days and they were exemplary. I have to give them a shout-out because they did an incredible job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> It was amazing. The only thing Marc Ribler didn\u2019t know was the name of the Elvis intro song that you came out to (at the June 5 show).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> (Laughs) I don\u2019t know the name of it. All I know is I said, Marc, when I come on (you play) dah-dah dahhh \u2014 the Elvis Las Vegas intro. Really fast, as fast as you can play it. We were having some fun with it.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Everybody knocked it out of the park and you were great. The second line (at the June 4 show) with Trombone Shorty \u2026<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> I didn\u2019t know that was going to happen but Trombone Shorty was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> You always deliver, you always surprise in a good way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Springsteen:<\/strong> That\u2019s good, that&#8217;s my job. (Laughs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go<\/strong>: Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, 382 Cedar Ave., Long Branch. $22 (adults); $20 (seniors); $16 (youth 7-17 and veterans); free for kids 6 and under, active military, Monmouth University students. Entry slots must be selected via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/springsteencenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">springsteencenter.org<\/a>. Saturday is sold out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Subscribe to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.app.com\/offers\">app.com<\/a> for the latest on the New Jersey music scene.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at cjordan@app.com<\/em><\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2026-06-11 09:30:57.315255524 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2026-06-11 09:30:57.315255524 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/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 www.app.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-minute read Bruce Springsteen Center ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6, 2026 Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6, 2026 at Monmouth University in Long Branch The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music has opened on the campus of Monmouth University in Long Branch. 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