Weekend on the Radio Recap: E-Street Shuffle Edition

Bruce Springsteen, Weezer, Dan Deacon, Bon Iver, and Monte Montgomery are all playing around the Baltimore area this weekend.  There is no excuse! Get out of the house and support live music.  Seriously, why are you still reading this? Vamos!


All Weekend Long:

• Maryland Wine Festival, Carroll County Farm Museum, check website for details 

Thursday, 9/13:

• Secret Sinful Supper, the Meyerhoff, 6 p.m.

Friday, 9/14:

•   Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Nationals Park, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, 9/15:

• Charm City Music Festival, Harbor East, noon 
• Bon Iver, Merriweather Post Pavilion, 6:30 p.m. 
• Monte Montgomery, Gordon Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.
• Dan Deacon, The Ottobar, 8 p.m.

Sunday, 9/16: 

• Paco Fish and his Sticky Bun Friends, Metro Gallery, 8 p.m.

Countdown To Bruce --Born to Run

Most would agree that Bruce Springsteen is one of the most important storytellers and artists of our time. Coupling his history and ability to tap into our collective mind sets is certainly a gift. But the side that makes Bruce so endearing is his ability to reduce that collective Gestalt into something individually important to each of us.

Much is being made of Bruce and E Streeters playing full albums at the last shows of the tour. I've been to more shows than I can count but the there is a special moment when Born To Run explodes onto the stage. Goosebumps, tears and introspection collide and carry those of us old enough to remember the Stone Pony into a state of middle aged well being.

I'll post one Piece of Bruce a Day between now and the show here in Baltimore. Please feel free to share your Bruce Stories. I'm staring here at my tickets and the station has been so busy that I really haven't had the time to focus on my pre Bruce anticipation. It hit me this morning that I'm seeing Bruce IN the the Town I Live In! That hasn't happened in quite a while (DC not withstanding). I've flown to Tampa, driven to Richmond twice and left at noon to make an Asbury Park Rehearsal Show and returned home at 3 the next morning--But here in Baltimore--that's gonna rock!

How far have you gone for a Bruce Show?

This one is from the 2002 Video Music Awards taped in NYC.

To steal a line--ARE YOU READY!?

Stars Bar-Rock DC

If you want to find out where you can hang out with Jessica Alba and Citizen Cope or Sting and Denzel Washington this weekend and early next week, just click on this highlighted link.

The forecast calls for painfully cold weather down at the National Mall on Sunday (at around 2pm), when Bruce Springsteen, U2, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and more take the stage in front of the Lincoln Memorial for a 90 minute concert. It's free and open to the public.

Word is, each artist will perform a song each, but keep an eye out for some collaborations.

If you miss that, you can still catch Elvis Costello and Michael Franti (which is cool, because, much to his regret, he was in Canada and NOT Chicago the night Obama was elected- his plane did make a stop in Chi-Town), and more around town, during a star-studded week of history!

Hopefully, Sunday at The Mall will look something like this:

Attention Bruce and Arcade Fire Fans!

Bruce played in Ottawa last night and the crowd got a great surprise! Win Butler and Regine Chassagne jumped on stage for a couple of songs. Arcade Fire had just finished up a show in NYC the weekend before. Bruce often has a few special guests on his tours here and there so now, of course, it's time to speculate who might jump on stage at the Verizon Center Shows next month. Hmmmm....Do you think Al Gore can carry a tune all the way through Dancing in the Dark! :)

Bruce Stringsteen and Arcade Fire - State trooper
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