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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band was originally scheduled to play Camden Yard s in Baltimore on September 9th, 2023. The show was postponed for a year due to Bruce's peptic ulcer disease. Friday night, he and the band made up for it. Springsteen has a big show coming up Sunday evening on the beach in Asbury Park as the headliner of the SeaHearNow Music Festival . For this sweltering Friday evening, though, he gave full attention to Baltimore. The band came on stage almost exactly at the stated show time of 7:30. Given that Bruce's first top ten single "Hungry Heart " mentioned Baltimore in the first line, it was no surprise that Bruce opened with it, followed by another River fan favorite, "Sherry Darling." The audience took the first line of "Hungry Heart," and Bruce was down to the front of the stage and in to the crowd even before beginning his own singing. The two openers also gave opportunities for members of the band to shine, in par...

Man on the people:  "Hungry Heart" Copps Coliseum in Hamilton was built in the 1980s in the hopes that the city would land an National Hockey League franchise.  Nonetheless, its style is more reminiscent of older arenas:  It has only a single main concourse from which both the upper and lower bowls enter; also there are only a dozen small luxury boxes, with no glass separating them from the action.  The kind of place where the sound is loud and it gets sweaty.  In short, Bruce Springsteen's kind of place. Crowd Surfing during "Hungry Heart When Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band took the stage to the theme from "The Magnificent Seven," Bruce appeared determined to conquer this part of Ontario -- just as they had a couple months earlier in nearby Toronto.  The band launched in to a blistering version of My Love Will Not Let You Down, with the house lights on for much of the number.  Bruce followed with a pair of songs ...