Watch Bruce Springsteen debut “Streets of Minneapolis” as surprise guest at First Avenue benefit show

As was rumored, Bruce Springsteen was the surprise guest on Friday (1/30) at “A Concert of Solidarity & Resistance to Defend Minnesota,” which had Tom Morello, Rise Against, Al Di Meola, and Ike Reilly performing at Minneapolis’ First Avenue to raise money for the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Springsteen gave his new anti-ICE protest song “Streets of Minneapolis” its live debut, joined Morello on a rendition of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” (a song they’ve done together before), and was part of a big group cover of John Lennon’s “Power to the People.” Watch attendee-taken video below.

Morello’s set included Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name,” and a rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” which he was joined on by Rise Against, Reilly, and Di Meola. Rise Against, meanwhile, covered Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

Ahead of the show, Morello wrote, “If it looks like fascism, sounds like fascism, acts like fascism, dresses like fascism, talks like fascism, kills like fascism and lies like fascism, boys & girls it’s fucking fascism. It’s here, it’s now, it’s in my city, it’s in your city and it must be resisted, protested, defended against, stood up to, exposed, ousted, overthrown and driven out. By you and by me. We are coming to Minneapolis where the people have heroically stood up against ICE, stood up against Trump, stood up against this terrible rising tide of state terror. Where the people have stood up for their neighbors and themselves, for democracy and justice. Ain’t nobody coming to save us except us and it’s now or never.”

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/y6PgLItFkb

— daviss 📸 (@daviss)

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/y6PgLItFkb

— daviss 📸 (@daviss) January 30, 2026