Bruce Springsteen Performs Anti-ICE Song Live at Minneapolis Protest Concert as Crowd Yells ‘ICE Out Now!’

Bruce Springsteen brought his protest song “Streets of Minneapolis” to the actual streets of Minneapolis Friday afternoon, making an unadvertised appearance at a daytime benefit concert organized by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello.

At the noontime concert, billed as “A Concert of Solidarity & Resistance to Defend Minnesota!” and taking place place at Minneapolis’ famous First Avenue club, Springsteen appeared solo to offer the first live rendition of “Streets of Philadelphia.” He was then joined by Morello and band for an eight-minute version of his “Grapes of Wrath”-themed “The Ghost of Tom Joad.”

The crowd loudly shouted along with “ICE out now!” in the final verse of the new Springsteen song, as it ends with the lines, “In our chants of ‘ICE out now’ / Our city’s heart and soul persists / Through broken glass and bloody tears / On the streets of Minneapolis.” The audience also spontaneously broke out into just such a chant between songs.

Promotion for the concert noted that 100% of proceeds would go to “the families of those murdered by ICE,” naming slain activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti.