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Bruce Springsteen is heading back out on the road.
“The Boss,” 76, and his E Street Band are launching their Land of Hope and Dreams tour next month, starting at Minneapolis’ Target Center.
Springsteen kicking off his 20-date run in Minneapolis comes just weeks after the release of his protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” which criticized Donald Trump after ICE agents invaded the city on his orders. The song was written in response to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two civilians who were shot and killed by federal immigration agents earlier this year.
“We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times,” Springsteen said in a video announcing the tour. “But do not despair, the calvary is coming. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington D.C. for the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour.
“We will be rocking your town,” he said, pointing at the camera, “in celebration and in defense of America, American democracy, American freedom, our American constitution and our sacred American dream — all of which are under attack by our wannabe king and his rogue government in Washington, D.C.”
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are launching the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour starting March 31 (Getty)
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Springsteen will kick off the 20-date tour in Minneapolis (AP)
He continued: “Everyone, regardless of where you stand or what you believe in, is welcome. So come on out and join the united free republic of E Street nation for an American spring of rock and rebellion. I’ll see you there.”
The tour — which comes less than a year after Springsteen’s last series of shows ended in Italy in July — will close in Washington, D.C. in a “final night outdoors” May 27 at Nationals Park, the announcement said.
Tickets to the North American leg of the tour go on sale Friday on Springsteen’s website. Tour posters on the site include the phrase “No Kings,” which references a nationwide protest against Trump.
Springsteen has been vocal about his criticisms of Trump over the years, branding the Trump administration last year as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” during a performance in Manchester, England. In response, Trump lashed out at the singer by calling him “obnoxious” and a “dried out prune of a rocker.”
Months later, the 20-time Grammy winner responded to the criticisms by saying: “I absolutely couldn’t care less what he thinks about me. He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”