JOHN CAVANAUGH
Vini Lopez at The Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, in September 2025.
The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music will launch an “Oral History Series,” Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m., with “An Evening of Stories” featuring original E Street Band drummer Vini Lopez, Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the center’s 240-seat Powell Soundstage.
There will be no admission charge, though registration will be required.
The center has also added “An Evening With” Ron Aniello, who has worked with Springsteen as a producer and musician on albums such as Letter to You and Western Stars, Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m.; and a screening of the new Rosanne Cash-narrated documentary “Woody Guthrie and the Ghost of Tom Joad Today,” plus a discussion with director Greg Mitchell, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m.
Both of these events have an admission fee of $20.
For information on these and other Springsteen Center offerings — including the “Lyric Lab” series, which offers close looks at important individual songs on Springsteen’s catalog — visit springsteencenter.org/programs.
The Center, which opened in June of this year, is at Monmouth University in West Long Branch.
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