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Four shows go on sale via pre-sale this morning for the Kenny Chesney Poets & Pirates Tour. Chesney Fan Club members can purchase tickets to the following shows through kennychesneyfanclub.com
- 8.21.08 – Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
- 8.23.08 – Raleigh, NC – Time Warner Amphitheater
- 8.28.08 – West Palm Beach, FL – Sound Advice Amphitheater
- 8.29.08 – Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheater
Check TicketMaster for other on sale dates.
The Oregonian has a review of Tuesday night’s show at the Clark County Amphitheater in Portland Oregon: “Review: Kenny Chesney and LeAnn Rimes”
Even the blustery breezes and miserable drizzle that like clockwork accompany Portland’s Rose Festival couldn’t stop the force of nature that is country star Kenny Chesney.
Tuesday night, Chesney’s Poets and Pirates tour docked at the all-but-open-air Amphitheater at Clark County, a mere two auto accidents and bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic north of Portland proper.
Hot off his latest – and fourth in a row – Entertainer of the Year award from the Academy of Country Music, Chesney proved his power and mastery of the big rock beat, the poetry of nostalgia, the longing for sunny beaches and his live-life-to-the-fullest philosophy before a nearly sold-out crowd that could have cared less that Chesney’s summer tour was basking in 50-degree weather.
The Luttrell, Tenn., native unleashed a 22-song, two-hour multimedia spectacular that showcased his 11-piece band (his regular touring unit, augmented by a four-piece horn section), a tried-and-true country-music and radio-friendly song formula, and his awe-shucks, ear-to-ear grinning country-boy charm.
Read the entire review here.
The Poets & Pirates Tour continues Friday night with a show from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Get your tickets now!
Rumors have been flying around the tabloids that Kenny Chesney is engaged, but this is not true according to Chesney’s official site:
“Kenny Chesney is not getting married. He’s not engaged. He’s not planning on being engaged any time in the near future.
“In fact, he was surprised by the news and isn’t sure how or why anyone would’ve gotten that idea.”
As he recently told People, ‘I enjoy being a bachelor. I enjoy everything that comes along with it.’”
 A second show has been added at the Time Warner Cable Pavilion at Walnut Creek in Raleigh, North Carolina. Chesney will play the second show on August 23rd, along with the original date of August 22nd.
Tickets will go on sale June 13th through TicketMaster.
On this day in 2000, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw were involved in a scuffle with police when Kenny Chesney rode off on a sheriff’s horse:
Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw were arrested in Buffalo, New York after Kenny rode off on a mounted police officer’s horse and Tim allegedly attacked the sheriff’s deputies who attempted to stop him. The pair was acquitted of all charges the following May.
Kenny Chesney continues his West Coast swing this week with shows in Portland, Oregon; Las Vegas; and San Francisco.
- Tuesday, June 3rd – Clark County Amphitheater – Portland, OR – get tickets
- Friday, June 6th – MGM Grand – Las Vegas, NV – get tickets
- Sunday, June 8th – AT&T Park – San Francisco, CA – get tickets
The Columbian has an article on tonight’s show in Portland: “Chesney expected to draw a big crowd to amphitheater tonight”
There are three more reviews of Saturday’s concert at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona:
Also check out the East Valley Tribune’s review from Sunday.
 Kenny Chesney brought his 2008 Poets & Pirates Tour to the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on Saturday night, playing a rockin’ show to 40,000 fans. Gary Allan, Sammy Hagar, and Keith Urban opened the show for Chesney (LeAnn Rimes was scheduled to play also, but had to cancel because of inflamed vocal chords). The East Valley Tribune has a review of the show, along with a slideshow of pictures: “Chesney’s tour brings “Stadium Country” to town”
Boasting a bill with four legitimate concert headliners, country superstar Kenny Chesney’s “Poets and Pirates Tour 2008” literally ushered in a new genre, “Stadium Country,” when the four time CMA and ACM entertainer of the year and friends made a stop at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale Saturday night.
Even with the cancellation of LeAnn Rimes due to an inflamed vocal chord, the lineup Saturday night was one that clearly blew away any of bills that Country Thunder trotted out during its four day run in Florence last month, with country hitmakers Gary Allan and Keith Urban sandwiched around rocker Sammy Hagar before Chesney closed out the night with a two hour set.
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Chesney, dressed in a sleeveless black T-shirt, jeans and a black cowboy hat, hasn’t won the ACM and CMA entertainer of the year four years in a row for nothing – his show is packed with strobe lights, video montages, fist-pumping rock guitar solos and the superstar’s ebullient, hands-on relationship with fans lucky enough to be seated (or in this case, standing) near any of the several stage runways that jutted out into the middle of the crowd.
Opening up with “Live These Songs,” Chesney, who with 10 studio albums has scored enough hits to play a good four hours easy, proceeded to prance about the stage like a country Mick Jagger, playing air guitar, sprinting up and down the ramps leading into the audience and generally staying in constant motion while his crack backing band reproduced his biggest hits right down to the last note.
Most of Chesney’s songs can be narrowed into two categories – tunes about the beach and nostalgic offerings that harken back to his college frat boys days of his teen years.
Of his beach-themes hits, the singer on Saturday rolled out “Beer in Mexico,” “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems,” the solo acoustic “Old Blue Chair” and “When the Sun Goes Down,” during which Chesney’s duet partner Uncle Kracker made a cameo.
Of his nostalgic tunes, Chesney played “Keg in the Closet,” “I Go Back, “Young,” “Never Wanted Nothin’ More,” Back Where I Came From” and “Just Don’t Happen Twice.”
With shows like this, where the singer had the adoring crowd eating out of his hand from the second the big “Poets and Pirates” curtain dropped, it’s not inconceivable that Chesney will win his fifth consecutive entertainer of the year award, certifying the singer as the biggest country superstar since Garth Brooks retired in 2001.
Read the entire review of the show here. Check out pictures from the show in our Photo Gallery.
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