Last night (January 17), Bruce Springsteen made an unannounced appearance at New Jersey’s Light of Day WinterFest — a frequent venue for his “surprise” performances. While joining headliners Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers onstage at the non-profit’s event, Springsteen strongly denounced the ongoing ICE raids in Minnesota and dedicated his 1978 song “The Promised Land” to Renee good, the mother recently killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Watch a fan-shot video of the moment below.
“This next song is probably one of my greatest songs,” Springsteen said before playing “The Promised Land.” “And I don’t want to be out of water tonight, but I wrote this song as an ode to American possibility: both to the lovely but flawed country that we are, and to the country that we could be. Now, right now, we are living thru incredibly critical times. The United States, the ideals and the values for which it stood for the past 250 years, is being tested as it has never been in modern times.
