Illness prevents Springsteen tour as 3 concerts have been postponed

SOUTH AMBOY, NJ (AP) — Bruce Springsteen’s scheduled performance in Albany Tuesday is the third concert in a week postponed by the New Jersey rocker, who tweeted Sunday citing illness but not giving details.

The postponements come a month after Springsteen’s first major tour in six years.

“The Boss,” as he’s known to his fans, also put himself and his E-Street band on sick leave last Thursday when they were due to perform in Columbus, Ohio, and again for a scheduled Sunday concert in the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville. Connecticut.

Details were missing from Springsteen’s social media posts. Although the Twitter feed blamed illness for the latest postponement, it didn’t specify who was ill or what type of illness it was.

It simply said: “Due to illness, the Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band concert at the MVP Arena in Albany on Tuesday 14th March has been postponed. We are working on moving the date so please keep your tickets as they are valid for the rescheduled show.”

The post made no mention of a major winter storm expected to hit Albany late Monday.

On Saturday, E Street Band member Little Steven Van Zandt tweeted encouraging news about the concert postponements, saying: “No need to be worried or anxious. Nothing serious. Just a temporary situation. We will all be back in full force very soon.”

Springsteen, 73, kicked off the tour on February 1 in Tampa, Fla. in front of 20,000 fans who tuned in for most of the 28-song arena show, which featured hits like “Born to Run,” “Glory Days,” “Rosalita,” and “Promised,” and “Backstreets.”

In a story last month that began with “COVID has hit E Street,” Asbury Park Press reported that E Street Band members Van Zandt and Soozie Tyrell missed a Feb. 10 show in Dallas.

The newspaper quoted one of the show’s viewers as saying Springsteen offstage blamed COVID-19 for her absence.

On his Twitter feed at the time, Van Zandt replied to a fan who asked why he missed the show: “Sorry guys. covid.”

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He added that he had “a very mild case,” credited his vaccines, and added, “No real danger or harm.” He returned to the tour shortly after.

The setbacks come several months after Springsteen released his latest album, Only the Strong Survive, in November.

The famed musician has sold approximately 140 million albums while winning 20 Grammys, an Oscar and a Tony Award in a career spanning all or part of six decades.

The first leg of his US tour concludes on April 14 with a homecoming in New Jersey before the band head overseas with an April 28 show in Barcelona, ​​Spain. Springsteen then returns for more US concert dates this summer, including a performance at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, and other dates in December.