Bruce Springsteen Lights Up the Jersey Shore With Four Different Performances at Asbury Park’s Sea. Hear. Now. Festival
variety.comMichele Amabile Angermiller For decades around the seaside city that he made famous, Asbury Park locals have said regularly, “Bruce might show up.” Last weekend at the sixth annual Sea.
Hear. Now Festival, he certainly did: Four separate times. “Greetings, Asbury Park!” Springsteen declared to the more than 35,000 fans stretched out on the beach, as he and the E Street Band hit the stage Sunday night promptly at 7:30 p.m.
for a 30-song, three-hour and 15-minute set that extended beyond the 10:30 p.m. curfew. The greetings were unnecessary — not only is he the city’s best-known denizen, he’d already been onstage three times during the weekend, joining photographer/ festival co-founder Danny Clinch’s band on Saturday night at the nearby Stone Pony nearby, and sitting in with both local heroes the Gaslight Anthem and Phish’s Trey Anastasio for surprise performances earlier in the day. “I never thought I’d have to follow Bruce Springsteen on a beach in Asbury Park,” Anastasio said after the Boss left the stage, noting that he’d grown up in New Jersey and that his first concert was a Springsteen show.
The surprises continued during Springsteen’s headlining set: After the band kicked off with “Lonesome Day” from the 2002 album, “The Rising,” he said, “I wrote this song about 500 yards north of here on Loch Arbor Beach.
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