Bruce Springsteen's first U.S. tour with The E Street Band in over a decade will resume in Spring 2000, with dates confirmed for February, March, April, May and June. The upcoming series of concerts will include performances in numerous cities not visited during the initial leg of the tour. The Southern United States will get multiple dates in the months ahead, with shows scheduled for Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kentucky and North Carolina. Performances are also set for Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oregon, Washington State, Missouri, Ohio and Connecticut. A concert in Toronto, Ontario is confirmed for May 3, and a small number of additional shows in the U.S. and Canada will be announced at a later date. Tickets for concerts in nine cities will go on sale this Saturday, January 29.
The tour culminates with a multi-show stand at New York City's Madison Square Garden. These shows mark Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's first series of Madison Square Garden concerts since 1988's "Tunnel Of Love Express" tour. The New York City performances will serve as the finale of Bruce Springsteen's 1999-2000 world tour with The E Street Band.
In 1999, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band appeared before over 1,800,000 fans, performing 87 shows in 44 cities throughout the U.S. and Europe. Here's an overview: The world tour began in Spain on April 9, 1999. The European leg of the tour featured 35 shows in 26 cities in 13 countries between April 9 and June 27, 1999.
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The U.S. leg of the tour commenced in New Jersey on July 15, 1999 with a record-setting 15 sold out shows at New Jersey's Continental Airlines Arena. The U.S. tour ultimately featured 52 concerts in 18 cities from July 15 to November 29, 1999.
The tour received rave reviews throughout the world. In a spirited Village Voice article, Greg Tate wrote "there's no denying the roughneck transcendence of the form achieved by Bruce and the E Street Band -- via a skintight and impassioned deployment of dynamics, and those wicked slambang segues that never fail to blow your head back vertical take-off style. Springsteen, Lofgren and Van Zandt make guitar solos matter again by virtue of the sheer violence with which they attack their axes, and by virtue of how their leads leap out like sputtering dynamite sticks."
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