For the 49th Grammy Awards (which will be held at the Staples Center in L.A. on February 11th 2007) Bruce Springsteen has been nominated in two categories:
Best Traditional Folk Album, for «We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions»
Best Long Form Music Video, for «Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to run»
The ceremony will be aired live on CBS.
Though he missed the 2005 shows, this year Bruce Springsteen contributed to the Light of Day shows with two guest appearances on saturday night (Dec. 2nd), at the second of three LOD shows at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. First he joined Philly rockers Marah for a couple of songs, and minutes later he joined Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers for about an hour which ended with everyone onstage singing «Santa Claus is Coming to Town».
Check full set list.
See our Photo Galleries:
Gallery 1, pics. by Esteban Peña
Gallery 2, pics. by John Cavanaugh.
LIGHT OF DAY 7 EVENT CALENDAR
Friday, December 01, 2006
Doors 6:00PM
Light Of Day 7, Night #1:
Writers In The Raw
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A songwriters-in-the-round styled event starring
Joe Grushecky, Pat Dinizio (Smithereens), Joe D’Urso, John Easdale (Dramarama) Willie Nile and Frank Bruno
An all-ages to enter, 21 to drink event.
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$75 upfront VIP seating, $50 GA seating, $35 standard general admission + applicable surcharges.
Light Of Day 7 will benefit the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and Joan Dancy And P.A.L.S., a Monmouth County-based assistance and service charity.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Doors 5:00PM
Light Of Day 7, Night #2
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Featuring an electric stage with Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers, Boccigalupe & The Bad Boys, Marah, Soozie Tyrell, Joe D’Urso & Stone Caravan, Jennifer Glass, Exit 105, Jobonanno & The Godsons Of Soul, Maybe Pete and more TBA! PLUS! An acoustic stage, featuring April Smith, Bobby Strange, Bruce Tunkel, Danny White, Dawne Allynne, Joe Rapolla, Joy Bodnar, Mike Rocket, Pat Guadagno, Rob Dye, Jon Caspi, Johnny Grushecky and more TBA!
Light Of Day 7, Night #2 will rock Starland with performances from Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers, Marah and many more.
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$125 upfront VIP seating, $60 general admission + applicable surcharges. This night’s LOD show features two stages — one plugged in, one not.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Doors 3:00PM
Light Of Day 7, Night #3:
Streetlight Manifesto
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Streetlight Manifesto with Nun The Less, Conspicuous Consumption, Wicker Hollow, Skyler, Dub Soulectors, Fakeknife and MC Lars!
An all-ages to enter, 21 to drink event.
Light Of Day 7, Night #3 will stomp and rock with Streetlight Manifesto and more acts to be announced.
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$15 + applicable surcharges. And the final night of Light Of Day 7 adds a bit of flavor, headlined by Garden State ska stompers, Streetlight Manifesto.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Light of Day Benefit Concert
The Esquires Club
60A Bromham Road
Bedford, England
Performing in a «songwriters in the round» format: Willie Nile, Jesse Malin, Joe D’Urso & Mick Kemp
50% of the money raised for this show will stay in the UK and be donated to the Birmingham Queen Elizabeth University Hospital whose sole purpose is funding research into neurodegenerative diseases.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Light of Day Benefit Concert
Jailbreak
Via Tiburtina
Roma, Italy
tel: 064063155
INFOLINE: 349692455
Performing in a «songwriters in the round» format: Willie Nile, Jesse Malin, Joe D’Urso & Lorenzo Semprini.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Light of Day Benefit Concert
Privat, Mataró (Barcelona) Spain
Performing in a «songwriters in the round» format: Willie Nile, Jesse Malin, Joe D’Urso, Quique Gonzalez, Nacho Vegas and Gary Louris (The Jayhawks).
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For more information, visit www.goodsoundsmusic.com/lightofday/
and FEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE PARKINSON
Bruce Springsteen ended his fantastic 2006 tour with three shows in Dublin and one in Belfast. The 3-night stand at The Point in Dublin was filmed by a camera-crew (of at least 9 or 10 cameras), hopefully for a future DVD release.
Night 1 was quite standard, with a good, solid performance in front of a very quiet audience. Not the best show of this tour, for sure.
Night 2 was quite a change: the audience got into the show very quickly and responded greatly, singing, dancing and chanting. Bruce and the band delivered a superb performance, full of energy, with the added bonus of two great tour premieres: «Highway Patrolman» and a beautiful «Shenandoah» as first encore.
The final night was explosive. Again a full-force Seeger Sessions Band delivered their best. Bruce was also on fire from the beginning. The audience was in ecstasy. The tour debut of «For You» rocked the place. (Early on, and because of the rain, the audience was let in during soundcheck time, allowing everyone to hear «For You» and «Mansion on the Hill»). One of the highlights of the show was «The Ghost of Tom Joad», sung beautifully by Bruce and Frank Bruno. «We Shall Overcome» was the first encore («the song that started it all», said Bruce). Later on, before «When the Saints go marchin’ in» Bruce thanked the band and said «we’ll be doing this again in the future».
Finally, on tuesday, the tour came to an end in Belfast. Springsteen’s sons Evan and Sam came onstage to announce: «Ladies and Gentlemen, Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band!». Later on, Jessica joined her brothers onstage during «Pay Me My Money Down». The Belfast show featured another tour debut: «Mansion on the hill», in a familiar version. «For You» was performed again, and «We Shall Overcome» was the song choosen to finish the show and the tour. In Bruce’s own words: «This is sort of a finale for a little while. This has been one of the nicest musical experiences of my life».
Visit the Concert page to see the set list of the 4 concerts in Ireland.
Friday 17.11.2006
Saturday 18.11.2006
Sunday 19.11.2006
Tuesday 21.11.2006
The Springsteen bus stopped, indeed, at Wembley. Twice. Two excellent, solid performances with some surprises. On the first night, the debut of a newly written Springsteen song (still «a work in progress», as he indicated) called «Gonna Be A Long Walk Home». The show once again opened with the funky, very E-Street-Shufflesque version of «Blinded by the light», and closed with «Froggie Went-A-Courtin».
Second night had a few more surprises. A tour premiere («Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?») and two rarities: «Land of Hope and Dreams» and «Man in the Flying Trapeze», both on the encores.
There’s a rumour flying around that the Dublin shows might be filmed for future release.