Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at Target Center, Minneapolis, MN (2026-03-31) Photos

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and THE E STREET BAND SETLIST

 

War (The Temptations cover) (with Tom Morello)
Born in the U.S.A. (with Tom Morello)
Death to My Hometown (with Tom Morello)
No Surrender
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Streets of Minneapolis
The Promised Land
Out in the Street
Hungry Heart
Youngstown
Murder Incorporated
American Skin (41 Shots) (with Tom Morello)
Long Walk Home (with Tom Morello)
House of a Thousand Guitars (solo acoustic)
My City of Ruins
Because the Night (Patti Smith Group cover)
Wrecking Ball
The Rising
The Ghost of Tom Joad (with Tom Morello)
Badlands (with Tom Morello)
Land of Hope and Dreams (with Tom Morello) (with “People Get Ready” snippet)

Encore:
Born to Run
Bobby Jean
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (with Tom Morello)
Purple Rain (Prince cover) (with Tom Morello)
Chimes of Freedom (Bob Dylan cover) (with Tom Morello)

outro tape- This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)

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■ Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Nicknamed “the Boss”, Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most of his albums feature the E Street Band, his backing band since 1972. 

Following a historic performance as a guest of Tom Morello at First Avenue, Bruce Springsteen returned to Minneapolis to open his 20-date Land of Hopes and Dreams Tour downtown at the Target Center.

He’d even come to town a few days early to play the anti-ICE anthem “Streets of Minneapolis” at the No Kings III Rally, a day that brought more than 200,000 people into the Minnesota streets and over 8 million people nationwide, in support of democracy and bringing attention to the egregious acts done by the current administration.

Springsteen and The E Street Band played, as usual, almost three hours, debuting that aforementioned anthem with the whole band for the first time, began the set with a Temptations cover not heard live since 2003, and being in the late Purple One’s hometown, covered “Purple Rain” for the first time in a decade, when the band played it at Barclays Center in Brooklyn in April 2016, just days after Prince’s death.

Morello began the show with the band, playing the first three songs, then disappeared backstage only to re-emerge for three more mini-sets accompanying Bruce and the E Street Band.

Springsteen worked in a snippet of “People Get Ready” during “Land of Hope and Dreams” and finished the evening with the Dylan cover of “Chimes of Freedom” making no mystery or pretense what the tour was made to represent and continuing Springsteen’s decades of outspoken social justice (anyone remember his Sept 1979 set at the No Nukes concert at Madison Square Garden?).

We previously told you about the Nugs.net livestream of the first two songs live (it can still be seen here on YouTube) but we also dispatched our intrepid fans-in-the-stands, The Coco Boys, armed only with their simple cellphones, to help document opening night of this important tour. Enjoy!

All Photos by The Coco Boys (John Rafalski and Tony Kiene)

Official photos from the show can be seen here

Mar 31 Minneapolis Target Center Apr 3 Portland, OR Moda Center Apr 7 Inglewood Kia Forum Apr 9 Inglewood Kia Forum Apr 13 San Francisco Chase Center Apr 16 Phoenix Mortgage Matchup Center Apr 20 Newark Prudential Center Apr 23 Sunrise Amerant Bank Arena Apr 26 Austin Moody Center Apr 29 Chicago United Center

May 2 Atlanta State Farm Arena May 5 Elmont UBS Arena May 8 Philadelphia Xfinity Mobile Arena May 11 New York City Madison Square Garden May 14 Brooklyn Barclays Center May 16 New York City Madison Square Garden May 19 Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena May 22 Cleveland Rocket Arena May 24 Boston, MA TD Garden May 27 Washington, D.C. Nationals Park

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