{"id":329513,"date":"2026-08-25T19:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329513\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:50:12","slug":"bruce-springsteen-to-perform-at-stand-up-for-heroes-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329513\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen to Perform at Stand Up For Heroes 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter taking a rare year off in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> will make a return appearance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stand-up-for-heroes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stand-up-for-heroes\" data-tag=\"stand-up-for-heroes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stand Up For Heroes<\/a> at David Geffen Hall on November 9 to help the organization \u2013 which has raised $117 for veterans, military families, and their caregivers \u2013 celebrate its 20-year anniversary. He\u2019ll be joined by comedians Jon Stewart, Josh Johnson, and Hasan Minhaj, along with musical acts the Resilient, and Alex Warren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tStand Up For Heroes was created by ABC correspondent Bob Woodruff after he suffered a traumatic injury while reporting on the frontlines of the Iraq war in 2006. Since the beginning, the yearly event has been organized by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York Comedy Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cTwenty years ago we put together Stand Up for Heroes with a simple idea: bring people together with laughter and music in honor of those who have sacrificed so much for our country,\u201d Woodruff says in a statement. \u201cWhen we started this way back in 2007 we thought it would just be a one-time concert. But it\u2019s become one of the most meaningful nights of the year. Think about that! Right there in the theater veterans and service members share the spotlight with unforgettable tributes by world-class performers. Those who come to the show will ensure that men and women serving today will not be left behind tomorrow. I look forward to taking the stage again as we celebrate how far we\u2019ve come and as we renew our promise to always have the backs of the next generation of American heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSpringsteen performed at the first event at New York\u2019s Town Hall in 2007. He\u2019s returned nearly every year since, and everyone from Roger Waters to John Mellencamp, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones, and Sheryl Crow have also taken part. The list of comedians to participate \u2013 including Jerry Seinfeld, John Oliver, Ricky Gervais, Jim Gaffigan, Louis C.K., Seth Meyers, and Conan O\u2019Brien \u2013 is equally impressive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMost years, Springsteen plays three or four acoustic songs. At his most recent appearance in 2024, he performed \u201cThe Power of Prayer,\u201d \u201cLand of Hope and Dreams,\u201d \u201cDancing in the Dark,\u201d and \u201cLong Walk Home.\u201d Between songs, he usually tells jokes. \u201cGuy goes into the library,\u201d he said that night. \u201cHe says to the librarian, \u2018Where do you keep books on paranoia?\u2019 She goes, \u2018Shh. They\u2019re behind you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After taking a rare year off in 2025, Bruce Springsteen will make a return appearance to Stand Up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11955,9,24,55,54,56,123896],"class_list":["post-329513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-stand-up-for-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}