Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at Light Of Day Benefit’s 25th anniversary concert over the weekend. Check out footage below.
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The annual music event, which raises money to support research into Parkinson’s disease, took place on Saturday (January 18). Jesse Malin, Willie Nile and Joe Grushecky were among the performers at Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, before Springsteen showed up to surprise the audience in his home state.
The concert marked one of Malin’s first performances since he suffered a spinal stroke in 2023 that left him partially paralysed. He announced Springsteen’s arrival, saying: “We actually met at Light of Day, my first time playing these things. We met in the green room. Wherever he is, let’s bring him out. Bruce, where are you?” The two then performed their 2007 collaborative track ‘Broken Radio’.
It wasn’t The Boss’s only appearance at the event – he also joined Willie Nile to play ‘One Guitar’, and Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers for ‘Never Be Enough Time’.
He then went on to play a string of his own hits, including ‘Darkness On The Edge of Town’, ‘The Promised Land’, ‘Pink Cadillac’, and the event’s namesake ‘Light Of Day’, which he wrote for Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox for the 1987 film of the same name. Check out the footage below.
In other Bruce Springsteen news, 2025 will see him extending his global tour with The E Street Band, which will include stops in various cities across the UK and Europe throughout July. Check out a full list of dates here and visit here to purchase tickets.
Elsewhere, he’s been spotted on the set of his forthcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, which stars The Bear actor Jeremy Allen White.
Set for release in 2025, Deliver Me From Nowhere chronicles the musician’s journey to recording his sixth album, ‘Nebraska’, in 1982. On the edge of becoming a worldwide phenomenon, the film will show the artist at a much more vulnerable moment in his life.
The singer himself was quoted as being full of praise for White, saying he “sings very well” and that the film is cast “beautifully”.
