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Bruce Springsteen Archives to Screen 2024 American Music Honors on Friday

originally published: 10/28/2024

(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music will present the premier screening of 2024's American Music Honors on Friday, November 1, 2024 in the intimate Pollak Theatre where the sold-out awards event was held on April 24, 2024. The screening of this very special evening shows them honoring American Music icons Dion, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, and Mavis Staples. Doors open at 7:30pm, the screening begins at 8:00pm.

Each of the 2024 honorees, backed by Marc Ribler & the Disciples of Soul band, contributed awe-inspiring performances that completely blew the audience away. Hosted by Brian Williams, the evening was filled with eloquent and thoughtful remarks by honorees and their presenters: Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love, and Jon Landau. The evening concluded with the audience on their feet while honorees and presenters shared the stage and jammed to such hits as “Small Town“, “Glory Days”, “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”, “Take It Easy”, “The Wanderer” and more culminating in a jam-packed stage performing “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”.

American Music Honors celebrates artists who have demonstrated artistic excellence, creative integrity and a longstanding commitment to the value of music in our national consciousness.  

Dion, (“Runaround Sue”, “A Teenager in Love”, “The Wanderer”) whose landmark recording of “Abraham, Martin and John” became an activist anthem in the late 1960’s.

John Mellencamp, (“Pink Houses”, “Small Town”, “Check it Out”) who together with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, created Farm Aid in 1985.




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Mavis Staples, (“You Are Not Alone”, “I’ll Take You There”) who in the 1960’s was on the frontlines of the civil rights movement and continues to use her music to support racial equality in America.

Jackson Browne, (“Late for the Sky”, “The Load Out”) a long-time social justice, environmental and educational activist who has supported everything from anti-nuclear alternative energy resources to political freedom in Central America.

Tickets are $25 and are on sale now and are available for purchase online. The Pollak Theatre is located on the campus of Monmouth University (400 Cedar Avenue) in West Long Branch, New Jersey.

The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music serves as the official repository for the musical legacy of Bruce Springsteen. The Archives includes photographs, periodicals, oral histories, rare recordings, historic footage, and artifacts related to Springsteen and the E Street Band.  The Center for American Music produces museum exhibitions, seminars, concerts, and other public and educational programs that both explore and celebrate the nation’s rich music tradition.




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