Wednesday night Kenny Chesney brought the Sun City Carnival Tour to the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario. It’s Kenny’s second swing through Canada. In July, he played Edmonton, Calgary, and Merritt.

The Ottawa Citizen has a review of the show: “Chesney rocks Scotiabank like a summer tailgate party”

Too bad Scotiabank Place doesn’t have a retractable roof. Glancing up at the stars would have been all 13,500 country-music fans needed Wednesday night for Kenny Chesney’s show to be a total summer blowout.

Chesney, 41, lived up to his party-boy reputation by opening his show drifting over the crowd in a suspended chair. The good Lord Himself, or even Garth Brooks, might have been greeted less tumultuously than when Chesney finally touched down on stage.

He completed the party-time picture with a boat load of mostly upbeat, summery tunes including Beer in Mexico, When the Sun Goes Down, and No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems. Behind him, images of bikini-clad girls and other happy folks splashed across the video screens.

Read the full review here.

Chesney stays in Canada on Thursday for a show at the Molson Amphitheater in Toronto before returning to the states Saturday for a stadium concert at Ford Field in Detroit. Check out the full tour schedule here.

(photo: Christopher Pike, The Ottawa Citizen)