Bruce Springsteen to Honor John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples and Dion at Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University

Bruce Springsteen will be going back to college to honor John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples and Dion DiMucci at The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music second annual American Music Honors event, to be held Wednesday, April 24 on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J.

The American Music Honors will take place in Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre. Stevie Van Zandt’s Disciples of Soul will serve as the event’s house band.

In addition to Springsteen, award presenters will include Jon Landau and 2023 American Music Honors recipients Van Zandt and Darlene Love. Tickets for the event will go on sale to the public on Tuesday, March 23.

The 2024 honorees are: Mellencamp, who together with Willie Nelson and Neil Young, created Farm Aid in 1985. The social activism reflected in Mellencamp’s songs helped catalyze Farm Aid, the organization that has addressed the struggle of American family farmers that continues to this day; Browne, a long-time social justice, environmental and educational activist who has supported everything from anti-nuclear alternative energy resources to political freedom in Central America; Staples, who in the 1960’s was on the frontlines of the civil rights movement and continues to use her music to support racial equality in America; and Dion DiMucci, who’s landmark recording of “Abraham, Martin and John” became an activist anthem in the late 1960’s and beyond.

“The Bruce Springsteen Archives Center for American Music is proud to honor these musically, culturally, and politically important artists,” said Robert Santelli, Founding Executive Director of the Springsteen Archives. “All four artists—John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, and Dion—have contributed mightily to the American music canon and have demonstrated how the power of song can act as an agent for positive change in our country.”

Ticket information is available on the Archives’website https://springsteenarchives.org.

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