Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performed in Columbus, April 21.
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band played three tour debuts in their 30-song concert at The Nationwide Arena in Columbus, April 21: “Youngstown” (complete with an epic Nils Lofgren guitar solo, to open the show), “Streets of Fire” and “I’m Goin’ Down.” You can videos of all three below.
Other notable songs in the setlist included “Racing in the Street,” “Trapped” and, as two of the encores, “Detroit Medley” and “Twist and Shout.” I have included a video, below, of these last two songs, too.
Here is the show’s setlist:
“Youngstown”
“Lonesome Day”
“Prove It All Night”
“No Surrender”
“Ghosts”
“Letter to You”
“The Promised Land”
“Spirit in the Night”
“Hungry Heart”
“Trapped”
“Streets of Fire”
“I’m Goin’ Down”
“Nightshift”
“Racing in the Street”
“Last Man Standing”
“Backstreets”
“Because the Night”
“She’s the One”
“Wrecking Ball”
“The Rising”
“Badlands”
“Thunder Road”
Encore
“Born to Run”
“Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”
“Bobby Jean”
“Dancing in the Dark”
“Tenth Avenue Freeze-out”
“The Detroit Medley”
“Twist and Shout”
“I’ll See You in My Dreams”
The Columbus show brought the current leg of Springsteen & the E Street Band’s tour to an end. They will start the next, European leg of the tour, May 5 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
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