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Bruce Springsteen announces 9-week The River Tour with Toronto date

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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2015 file photo, Bruce Springsteen performs at the 9th Annual Stand Up For Heroes event in New York. On Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 Springsteen announced The River Tour with the E Street Band, which starts Jan. 16, 2016, in Pittsburg. Springsteen will play 24 dates and wrap the tour on March 17, 2016, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.(Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Bruce Springsteen will kick off a nine-week North American tour next year.

On Friday, the 66-year-old icon announced The River Tour with the E Street Band, which starts Jan. 16, 2016, in Pittsburgh and hits Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on Feb. 2, 2016.

Springsteen will play 24 dates in all and wraps the tour on March 17, 2016, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.

Tickets go on sale Dec. 11. The tour also will visit Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta and New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Friday’s announcement of the tour was made the day he released the four-disc “The Ties That Bind: The River Collection,” which includes unreleased songs, the original 1980 “The River” album and more.

Before the tour, Springsteen will perform on “Saturday Night Live” on Dec. 19.

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