Kenny Chesney and his Sun City Carnival Tour stay out West this weekend with shows in Salt Lake City, Utah and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Tonight Chesney will perform at Rio Tinto Stadium in Salt Lake City, home of the Major League Soccer team Real Salt Lake. Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum will open the show. Sugarland was scheduled to perform but we do not know if they will or not due to Jennifer Nettles’ recent vocal issues.
Then on Friday and Saturday night Kenny will perform at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
If you attend any of these shows please share your experience on our forum and pass the set list along to us.
After some fans expressed displeasure on blogs/forums/twitter, etc. about the recent Sugarland concert cancellations, which included Saturday night’s Sun City Carnival Tour stop in San Francisco, Kenny Chesney has issued another statement:
“It was really sad to see the way some people reacted to Jennifer needing to cancel her appearance in San Francisco last weekend — and it seems to me we should all be concerned about her long-term vocal health more than any single show that she may not be able to do.
Naturally, I’m disappointed she’s not out here with us — because she is a friend as well as an act I know the fans enjoy — but I think it’s more important that she have the time to heal properly, rather than forcing herself to try and rush back onstage. I know she’ll be back before the summer and can’t wait to have her back out there. But it’s about doing the right thing and we should all be supporting her in that.”
CMT.com says that Sugarland will not perform at Thursday night’s Salt Lake City show with Chesney.
This past Saturday Kenny Chesney performed at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Sugarland was slated to perform but had to cancel due to vocal issues with Jennifer Nettles. Kenny has put out a statement on Nettles and the AT&T Park show:
“We totally understand about Jennifer,” Chesney says. “She needs to take care of her voice and I completely support that. It let Miranda and Lady A have some extra time to really stretch out and show people a little bit more of their stuff, which was great cause I think every act out there is that good.”
And on the AT&T Park show itself Chesney says “this was one of the prettiest days we’ve had on this tour. This has been a tough summer for the fans in terms of being worried about their jobs, worried about money, and the idea that we can give people a day off from that to come out with their friends and have some fun… You know any day we can make somebody’s world rock a little bit, well that’s a good day.”
Many fans that attended the Kenny Chesney show at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Saturday night were upset that country duo Sugarland canceled on short notice.
Folks arriving Saturday for the big country show at San Francisco’s AT&T Park were greeted with a sign saying Sugarland — No. 2 on the bill behind Kenny Chesney — would not be performing because singer Jennifer Nettles had lost her voice in the recording studio.
Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush posted a message on YouTube explaining their recent cancellations (full video below the text and hat tip to Country Standard Time).
“Nobody panic,” Nettles said with Kristian Bush next to her. “The truth of the situaition is we are are very disappointed to not be able to be with you tonight. The reason being…I’ve been dealing with stuff since January that has put me beyond vocally off and on. . We went into the studio between being out on the road, and I sang too much, and I blew my voice. It’s like a muscle. It’s like another part of your body. If you sprainit or strain it, you have to heal it or you bill break it. I don’t want to break it.”
“Everything’s ok. I’m not sick or I’m not dying. I thought about making up a really good story that I was binging on opium.”
“It sucks,” said Nettles. “I hate it that I can’t be there with you and that we can’t be there and do these shows. We wanted most to be there most to be there, if anybody wants it.”
“We will see you out on the road very soon,” she said.
The Sun City Carnival Tour took over the home field of the San Francisco Giants Saturday night as Kenny Chesney performed for 40,000 fans at AT&T Park. Sugarland was scheduled to play before Chesney but canceled because Jennifer Nettles apparently lost her voice in the recording studio:
Folks arriving Saturday for the big country show at San Francisco’s AT&T Park were greeted with a sign saying Sugarland — No. 2 on the bill behind Kenny Chesney — would not be performing because singer Jennifer Nettles had lost her voice in the recording studio.
The sign offered refunds but also stated that Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert and Chesney would play longer sets to make up for the absence. In actuality? Not so much. Chesney just pulled out his standard 90-minute set, and the whole evening was over by 10:40. Though the set was thoroughly professional and technically accomplished, and packed with familiar singalong hits — generally about partying, rose-colored nostalgia, the beach, or some combination thereof — it certainly lacked the sense of an event that last summer’s installment had, when Chesney was joined onstage by Sammy Hagar and Steve Miller. There wasn’t much magic.
A month ago we told you that Kenny Chesney was on Twitter with the username @chesneyofficial. Though there are still no tweets from Kenny or his people, we may be a step closer as they’ve taken over the @kennychesney username.
If you were already following @chesneyofficial then you will automatically be following @kennychesney as Twitter simply made the name change with all other things staying the same.
Sign up for Twitter now. It’s free, quick, and easy. Once you are signed up and logged in, simply click here and then click Follow to add Kenny Chesney to your list of friends.
In the mean time you can follow us for the latest and best Kenny Chesney news at twitter.com/ChesneyWorld. We’re also on Facebook.
Aidin Vaziri recently interviewd Kenny Chesney for Gibson Guitars online. Here are some highlights:
Does putting out your second greatest hits album feel like closing a chapter of your life?
It didn’t until I put it all together. I play these songs all the time but I haven’t listened to those records in a long time. The version we play onstage is different. I sat and listened to the actual records in the sequence we made it and you can’t help but think it was a chapter of your career. It’s one that changed my life that’s for sure.
You’re not going to pull a Chris Gaines like Garth Brooks did, are you?
God, no. If I make a record it will have my name on it. I’m not going to wear a wig and I’m not going to use a fake name.
Where do you want to be when you’re 70?
I hope I’m still writing songs. I hope that I’m happy, not that I’m not. I hope I’m in a place in my life where there’s clarity and a lot of friends and I’m still making music people want to hear. I hope that I can look at myself in the mirror and be proud.
Kenny Chesney took the Sun City Carnival Tour to Boise, Idaho on Tuesday where he played a sold-out show at Taco Bell Arena. The Idaho Press-Tribune has a review of the show:
Clad in his signature cowboy hat, sleeveless T-shirt and tight jeans (no bare feet this time), Chesney and his 13-piece band – complete with horns, guitars and percussion – had adoring fans on their feet for nearly two hours. His performance capped a country music experience that also featured up-and-coming Lady Antebellum and hard-rocking Texas-bred Miranda Lambert.
Chesney gave the audience what they came for, and a little bit more. Flashes popped and souvenir electric leis twinkled in every direction as the high-energy Chesney delivered on every front. He is the John Mellencamp of country, singing songs for the common man, the simple life, hard partying, heartbreak and, of course, summertime escapes surrounded by pretty girls … lots of pretty girls.
Make that a third tour date for 2010… We’ve had a couple fans e-mail and tell us that Kenny Chesney will headline WE Fest next year in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.
Mike told us that he received an e-mail from wefest.com announcing that Chesney is booked for next year and Erik received a brochure also announcing Kenny’s booking when he received his tickets in the mail for this year’s festival.
Kenny Chesney and his Sun City Carnival Tour stay out West this weekend with shows in Salt Lake City, Utah and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
After some fans expressed displeasure on blogs/forums/twitter, etc. about the recent Sugarland concert cancellations, which included Saturday night’s Sun City Carnival Tour stop in San Francisco, Kenny Chesney has 
This past Saturday Kenny Chesney performed at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Sugarland was slated to perform but had to cancel due to vocal issues with Jennifer Nettles. Kenny has put out a statement on Nettles and the AT&T Park show:
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