{"id":66770,"date":"2026-06-17T00:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/obama-presidential-centers-opening-bruce-springsteen-stevie-wonder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:48:29","slug":"obama-presidential-centers-opening-bruce-springsteen-stevie-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/obama-presidential-centers-opening-bruce-springsteen-stevie-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Presidential Center\u2019s Opening: Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u201cHope has a home, and it\u2019s time to open its doors,\u201d reads the center\u2019s welcome message for its grand opening in Chicago<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>, U2\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bono\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bono\" data-tag=\"bono\">Bono<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-edge\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-edge\" data-tag=\"the-edge\">the Edge<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stevie-wonder\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stevie-wonder\" data-tag=\"stevie-wonder\">Stevie Wonder<\/a>, are among the stacked lineup for the Obama Presidential Center\u2019s grand opening ceremony in Chicago on Thursday, June 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe are bringing together some of today\u2019s most prominent voices and global icons for the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening Ceremony,\u201d the Obama Foundation captioned an Instagram post on Tuesday, announcing the lineup. \u201cThe festivities will livestream globally at 11 a.m. CT, Thursday, June 18 \u2014 don\u2019t miss it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe savvy reveal on IG came by way of a group chat, which features former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/barack-obama\/\" id=\"auto-tag_barack-obama\" data-tag=\"barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> adding people to his phone chat who will also appear at the ceremony. In addition to Bono, the Edge, Springsteen, and Wonder, the lineup includes spouse and former First Lady Michelle, Christina Aguilera, Common, Eddie Vedder, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Marc Anthony, Marsai Martin, the Roots, and Tems.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPer the Obama Presidential Center\u2019s official website, \u201cThe livestreamed event brings together global leaders, artists, changemakers, and citizens for an inspiring celebration of the values that shaped the Obama presidency and continues to inspire people everywhere to believe in their power to create change.\u201d The ceremony will livestream on Thursday on the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/obama.org\/visit\/grand-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\">center\u2019s official website<\/a>, beginning at 11:00 a.m. CT\/12:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Obama Presidential Center officially opens to the public on June 19.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-u2-obama-presidential-center-lineup-1235579258\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHope has a home, and it\u2019s time to open its doors,\u201d reads the center\u2019s welcome message for its grand opening in Chicago Bruce Springsteen,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":66771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}