My City of Ruins shows in subsequent years. The song was played regularly on The Rising Tour and the Sessions Band Tour. As such, "My City of Ruins" was included on the "Live in Barcelona" concert video and as a PBS special edition EP bonus track on "". After a tour of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, Bruce Springsteen played this song at the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. During the Working on a Dream Tour date in Rome, in July 2009, Bruce dedicated this song to the victims of the earthquake which devastated the Italian city of l'Aquila a few
Italian Week people who suffered the effects of the earthquake in Emilia Romagna. Italian Week proposed a series of event in which Italian culture was showcased in Italian gastronomy with the special guest Stefano Manfredi, chef at the Italian Alfresco Feast at the Treasury Hotel; in music, with the young and talented Italian acoustic guitarist Andrea Valeri and the Italo-American guitarist Art Phillips; in cinema with the screening of "Lezioni di Cioccolato" in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society, Casa Italia Community Centre and Griffith University; in traditional dance with Carmen Gentile, young Italian dance from Salerno; in Italian manufacture with an