The River Tour

Tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Associated album	The Ties That Bind: The River Collection
Start date	January 16, 2016
End date	February 25, 2017
Legs	4
No. of shows	47 in North America 28 in Europe 14 in Oceania (Summer '17 tour) 89 in Total
Box office	$306.5 million[1][2]
Bruce Springsteen concert chronology
High Hopes Tour (2014) The River Tour (2016–17) Springsteen on Broadway (2017–18; 2021)

The River Tour^[3] was a concert tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in support of Springsteen's 2015 The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set and in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Springsteen's 1980 album, The River.^[4] The River Tour ended in September 2016. Subsequently, the Summer '17 tour in Australia and New Zealand continued the tour using the same promotional image from the original legs.^[5]

The River Tour was the top grossing worldwide tour of 2016, pulling in $268.3 million globally, and was the highest-grossing tour since 2014 for any artist.^[6] Springsteen and the E Street Band also hold the biggest boxscore for 2016, with the May 27 and 29 shows at Dublin's Croke Park taking in $19,228,100 from 160,188 attendance for two sellout shows.^[7]

The tour marked the first tour in two years for Springsteen and the E Street Band. All shows on the first North American leg of tour and some shows from the second leg featured a full-length sequential performance of The River album. Other shows featured a large part of the album, albeit not always in album order.^[8] Many of the shows lasted over three and a half hours with around 33 songs performed. Springsteen's show on September 7, 2016, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia clocked in at 4 hours and 4 minutes, his longest show in the United States and the second-longest ever in his career, at two minutes shy of his 2012 show in Helsinki.^[9]

Background

The original River Tour began in October 1980 and continued through September 1981. With sets that regularly approached the four-hour range, the 140-date international tour firmly established a reputation for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as marathon performers.

Springsteen released The Ties That Bind: The River Collection on December 4, 2015. The box set features the original 1980 The River album along with many outtakes from the album's sessions.

The tour was announced on December 4, 2015, with tickets going on sale seven days later. It came unexpectedly, as Springsteen was working on a new solo album and planned to tour in support of that. However, with it already having been two years since his last tour with the E Street Band, Springsteen chose not to delay the next band tour even further. In November 2015, Springsteen's manager, Jon Landau, suggested performing The River at a few small shows in New York City and Los Angeles; however, Springsteen said it would take too long to rehearse and suggested doing twenty shows. Drummer Max Weinberg said he got the call from Springsteen on Thanksgiving, a week before the tour was announced to the public. "In all of my professional engagements, I have what I call the Springsteen Clause. It's inviolate. It's my own version of force majeure. It's an act of God or Bruce Springsteen. And it works all the time," Weinberg said. Nils Lofgren had to change dates on his solo tour, while Gary Tallent had to postpone his.^[10][11][12]

This was the first Springsteen tour in which all dates featured the same album performed in its entirety. Unlike the previous few tours, the touring lineup was downsized and did not feature a full horn section or backing vocalists.^[13] "I knew the basis of the show was going to be The River, and that was a small rock group. The tighter lineup feels much more like the old days", Springsteen said. Like previous tours, Patti Scialfa was not present at every show due to her responsibilities as a mother supporting her daughter in her equestrian career. Due to Scialfa's not being present at every show, along with no choir, Garry Tallent, standing in her spot on stage, sang backup vocals on a consistent basis on the front line.

Itinerary

North American leg 1

The tour got underway in Pittsburgh on January 16, 2016. Each show kicked off with "Meet Me in the City", followed by the full album performance of The River, and concluding with a twelve-song set featuring songs from the rest of Springsteen's catalog. The show usually finished with a cover of the Isley Brothers' "Shout". The show scheduled for January 24, 2016, at Madison Square Garden was postponed due to a record-setting snowstorm that hit the East Coast. The show was rescheduled for March 28. On April 23, 2016, at the first of two Brooklyn shows to end the first leg of the tour, Springsteen said that Brooklyn would mark "the last two nights we're officially playing The River from start to finish".^[14] That night he opened with "Purple Rain" in tribute to Prince, who had just died.

European leg

On July 13, 2016, for the first time since the end of the first North American leg of the tour, The River was performed in its entirety.

North American leg 2

Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off the second North American leg of the tour on August 23, 2016, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, at MetLife Stadium. The show opened with a performance of "New York City Serenade"; that song became the opener for all shows on this leg of the tour. The final MetLife Stadium performance on August 30 clocked in at over 4 hours and opened with a run of nine original songs written in 1973 or earlier, plus early live favorites Summertime Blues and Pretty Flamingo. The practice of playing a string of tracks from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., and The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle continued throughout the rest of this leg.

The show on September 3, 2016, in Virginia Beach was postponed until September 5, 2016, due to inclement weather. On September 7, 2016, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Springsteen played for 4 hours and 4 minutes, his longest show in the United States and second-longest ever. Springsteen performed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2016, the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The show featured six songs from Springsteen's 9/11 inspired album, The Rising. Springsteen wrapped up The River Tour 2016 on September 14, 2016, in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Oceania leg / Summer '17 Tour

On September 12, 2016, a fourth leg of the tour was announced that included nine shows in Australia and New Zealand in early 2017, named Summer '17 but using the same promotional artwork as the 2016 tour.^[8]

Springsteen's concert in Christchurch on February 21, 2017, fell on the eve of the anniversary of the earthquake which devastated the city's center. In the weeks that followed the quake, Springsteen's song "My City of Ruins" was adopted by Christchurch as an unofficial anthem. Springsteen played the song during the concert, dedicating it to the people of the city.^[15]

Record-breaking shows

Springsteen has been known for lengthy shows, and this tour continued that trend. The show on September 7, 2016, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, ran 4 hours and 4 minutes, which stands as Springsteen's longest show in the United States and second-longest ever after a 2012 show in Helsinki that ran two minutes longer.

Ticket scalping

As with previous Springsteen tours, ticket scalpers were a major problem when it came to buying tickets. Tickets for Springsteen's New York City shows began popping up on resale sites such as StubHub and eBay on December 7, 2015, four days before they went on sale to the public. Scalpers were re-selling tickets not yet available for as much as $5,000. This prompted New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to launch an investigation into how this happened and to write a letter demanding that both companies immediately remove any listings for ticket sales.^[16] When tickets finally went on sale on December 11, many fans again were shut out from buying tickets as most venues sold out quickly; within minutes, tickets were appearing for hundreds to thousands of dollars more on resale sites.^[17] According to reports, Springsteen's shows sold out in record time. Springsteen's show in Newark, New Jersey, at the Prudential Center sold out in a few minutes. His previous 2012 show at the same venue took two hours to sell out.^[18]

Recordings

All shows were professionally recorded and released on live.brucespringsteen.net. Many were also featured on E Street Radio.

Set list

This set list is representative of the average setlist of the tour's first North American leg as conducted by Setlist.fm, which represents all concerts for the duration of the tour's first leg. The full album performance was dropped following the first leg, although it was resurrected for a few shows on the second leg of the tour.^[19]

Tour dates

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List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening act	Attendance	Revenue
North America[20]
January 16, 2016	Pittsburgh	United States	Consol Energy Center	—	18,353 / 18,353	$2,412,020
January 19, 2016	Chicago		United Center		19,120 / 19,120	$2,756,475
January 27, 2016	New York City		Madison Square Garden		18,474 / 18,474	$2,508,528
January 29, 2016	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center		18,093 / 18,093	$2,383,850
January 31, 2016	Newark		Prudential Center		16,539 / 16,539	$2,227,836
February 2, 2016	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre		18,134 / 18,134	$1,793,936
February 4, 2016	Boston	United States	TD Garden		17,039 / 17,039	$2,062,417
February 8, 2016	Albany		Times Union Center		15,162 / 15,162	$1,966,730
February 10, 2016	Hartford		XL Center		14,672 / 14,672	$2,080,294
February 12, 2016	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center		19,411 / 19,411	$2,503,356
February 16, 2016	Sunrise		BB&T Center		18,658 / 18,658	$2,174,905
February 18, 2016	Atlanta		Philips Arena		16,713 / 17,450	$1,888,030
February 21, 2016	Louisville		KFC Yum! Center		15,730 / 16,900	$1,847,730
February 23, 2016	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena		19,071 / 19,071	$2,520,055
February 25, 2016	Buffalo		First Niagara Center		18,351 / 18,351	$2,186,795
February 27, 2016	Rochester		Blue Cross Arena		12,581 / 12,581	$1,712,080
February 29, 2016	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center		18,628 / 18,628	$2,576,190
March 3, 2016	Milwaukee		BMO Harris Bradley Center		17,653 / 17,653	$1,969,655
March 6, 2016	St. Louis		Chaifetz Arena		9,965 / 9,965	$1,334,370
March 10, 2016	Phoenix		Talking Stick Resort Arena		16,480 / 16,480	$2,050,630
March 13, 2016	Oakland		Oracle Arena		17,117 / 17,117	$2,245,715
March 15, 2016	Los Angeles		Memorial Sports Arena		49,302 / 49,302	$7,050,775
March 17, 2016
March 19, 2016
March 22, 2016	Portland		Moda Center		12,074 / 13,700	$1,639,915
March 24, 2016	Seattle		KeyArena		14,767 / 14,767	$1,929,695
March 28, 2016	New York City		Madison Square Garden		18,484 / 18,484	$2,508,003
March 31, 2016	Denver		Pepsi Center		16,770 / 18,540	$2,211,320
April 3, 2016	Oklahoma City		Chesapeake Energy Arena		12,603 / 14,332	$1,557,353
April 5, 2016	Dallas		American Airlines Center		15,563 / 16,961	$1,991,405
April 7, 2016	Kansas City		Sprint Center		12,286 / 13,813	$1,557,745
April 12, 2016	Columbus		Schottenstein Center		12,008 / 13,941	$1,568,810
April 14, 2016	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills		15,754 / 15,754	$1,949,443
April 18, 2016	University Park		Bryce Jordan Center		14,447 / 15,000	$2,038,548
April 20, 2016	Baltimore		Royal Farms Arena		14,124 / 14,124	$2,054,260
April 23, 2016	Brooklyn		Barclays Center		33,248 / 33,248	$4,641,260
April 25, 2016
Europe[21]
May 14, 2016	Barcelona	Spain	Camp Nou	—	64,865 / 64,865	$6,014,054
May 17, 2016	San Sebastián		Anoeta Stadium		41,100 / 41,100	$3,839,494
May 19, 2016	Lisbon	Portugal	Parque da Bela Vista		—	—
May 21, 2016	Madrid	Spain	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium		55,695 / 55,695	$5,359,310
May 25, 2016	Manchester	England	Etihad Stadium		48,614 / 50,000	$5,785,157
May 27, 2016	Dublin	Ireland	Croke Park		160,188 / 160,188	$19,228,100
May 29, 2016
June 1, 2016	Glasgow	Scotland	Hampden Park		45,330 / 45,330	$5,314,504
June 3, 2016	Coventry	England	Ricoh Arena		36,588 / 36,588	$4,523,864
June 5, 2016	London		Wembley Stadium		68,696 / 68,696	$9,251,527
June 14, 2016	The Hague	Netherlands	Malieveld		67,715 / 67,715	$5,980,218
June 17, 2016	Munich	Germany	Olympiastadion Munich		54,119 / 54,119	$4,797,890