NASHVILLE, TN. (Kenny Chasney Fans Website) - People Gets Lost Somewhere In The Sun: When
Kenny Chesney set out on his latest tour, he didn't think about the fact that last year only
Prince sold more concert tickets... or the fact that for the past three years, he'd played to over a million fans on his own shows (meaning not part of multiple act festival packages)... All
Kenny Chesney wanted to do was find a way to give the fans a better time than on his Guitars, Tiki Bars & A Whole Lot of Love Tour.
With a big stage, a killer band and a lot of songs from his quadruple platinum Country
Music Association When The Sun Goes Down,
Kenny Chesney has once again set the bar in terms of energy, intensity and sheer fan response. He's the only country act headlining three stadium shows - Washington DC's FedEx Field, which was the object of an entire page spread in USA Today, last weekend's Gillette Field
Boston -- where he set the record for most attended country show in New England by over 10,000 people, and this weekend's
Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, which is being captured for Chesney's ABC special airing Nov. 23 - and the fun they're having out there shows.
Look for a what goes into the tour -- beyond the technical aspects and sheer manpower -- in this week's People, as Chesney talks about how they cope, what they do when you don't see them and the secrets of maintaining the pace. Having sold more tickets than any other act on the road in North
America for the first half of this year, besting U2 by over 200,000, Somewhere in the Sun is getting noticed in some pretty unusual places for a concert tour.
"When I got the call that People wanted to talk about my tour, I thought it was some new section in Pollstar or Amusement Business, because all you ever hear is how mainstream magazines don't care about the numbers, don't care about the business, don't care about the road," admits Chesney with a laugh. "And maybe even if they don't care about that 'cause it's too inside, they realize how much fun we're all having out here -- and figured they might wanna get some of that. It sure sounded like it from the questions they were asking."
Chesney checks into
Heinz Field this Saturday. Otherwise, the Somewhere in the Sun Tour --featuring Academy of Country
Music Top Female Vocalist
Gretchen Wilson and multiple Grammy-nominee
Pat Green -- rolls on through the end of August. Chesney's The Road & The
Radio is being readied for Nov. 8th release, and the reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year makes his network television special debut with "Kenny Chesney: Somewhere In The Sun" on ABC Nov. 23.
