(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music announced that tickets for this September's multi-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of Springsteen's landmark album, Born to Run, will go on sale beginning at noon on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
Tickets for the main event, a full-day symposium that will take place on Saturday, September 6 in Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre, will cost $150 and will be available on the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music website.
The symposium will feature panels, presentations, and interviews with members of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, as well as with journalists and historians, music industry legends, and special guests.
“Born to Run is one of rock’s great masterpieces,” said Robert Santelli, Executive Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. “Just a few blocks from where the symposium will take place is where Springsteen wrote the album. To revisit the making of the album and to examine Born to Run’s place in American music history is a great honor and a quintessential example of the way the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music works to deliver unique insights about, and preserve the legacy of, our cherished American music genres and artists.”
The Pollak Theatre is located on the campus of Monmouth University at 400 Cedar Avenue in West Long Branch, New Jersey.
The Born to Run celebrations also include:
* A special presentation of Tuesday Night Record Club on Tuesday, September 2 at Monmouth University’s Great Hall Auditorium or via Zoom - it’s just like book club, but with albums! Get together with other music enthusiasts to discuss Born to Run. This event is free, but you must register at: https://springsteenarchives.org/.
* A special viewing of rare footage from the making of Born to Run and from Springsteen’s 1975 Born to Run tour, hosted by filmmaker Thom Zimny. This viewing will be the evening of Friday, September 5, at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre. Tickets for this event will be $50 and will also be available for purchase at https://springsteenarchives.org/.
* A new exhibit celebrating the photography of Eric Meola, whose iconic photo of Springsteen and saxophonist Clarence Clemons graces the Born to Run album cover. The free exhibit will be open to the public in Monmouth University’s Rechnitz Hall DiMattio Gallery from Saturday, September 6 through December 18, 2025.
An academic conference on Sunday, September 7 in Monmouth University’s Pozycki Hall, featuring close to 100 interdisciplinary papers from scholars across the globe. The conference will end with a special live performance of select songs from Springsteen’s iconic Born to Run, reimagined by the students of Blue Hawk Records, Monmouth University's own student-run label. The Born to Run Reimagined EP drops on September 5—stay tuned! Tickets for this daylong event, co-sponsored by the Monmouth University Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, will be $100 and will also be available for purchase at https://springsteenarchives.org/.
* Walking tours of the West End section of Long Branch, where Springsteen lived in 1974 and 1975 when he wrote the songs that comprise Born to Run. The September 7 tours, which include the chance to view Springsteen’s rented West End cottage, will take place at 11:00am & 2:00pm. Tickets will be $40, and will also be available at https://springsteenarchives.org/.
The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music preserves the legacy of Bruce Springsteen and celebrates the history of American music and its diversity of artists and genres. Our mission is two-fold. The Springsteen Archives serves as the official repository for materials related to Springsteen and the E Street Band, including photographs, historic memorabilia, oral histories, and more. The Center for American Music explores American music more broadly. We accomplish this by producing exhibitions, concerts, and educational programming that explores and honors the cultural impact of American music past, present and future.
