Bruce Springsteen has attended the Tribeca Festival to accept the Harry Belafonte Voices For Social Justice Award.
He dedicated the gong to “all the citizens of Minneapolis and Los Angeles and Portland who stood against the federal invasion of their cities this year”, Deadline reported.
“So I’ll take this and keep this in their name,” he added.
U2 singer Bono presented the award, and the two joined Patti Smith to perform People Have The Power to a standing ovation.
The Boss ended solo with a soulful rendition of Land Of Hopes And Dreams.
The Donald Trump critic, who has blasted the president regularly on stops of his recently concluded tour, exchanged compliments with Robert De Niro, the Tribeca Festival co-founder, who didn’t pull punches introducing the event, slamming “Donald J Trump and his feckless enablers”.
Springsteen noted that no one insults the president better than De Niro does.
Springsteen then described his body of work as being “built for hard times, and built for times like these”.
“And if you do that long enough, you pray that you have a little impact on the culture. Because art has the chance to shape culture. Culture shapes politics. Culture and politics shape the nation.”
