Kenny returns to Gillette

[BeachTenant]

KENNY CHESNEY TO RETURN TO GILLETTE STADIUM

The Fifth Annual New England Country Music Festival at Gillette Stadium is Saturday, July 26, 2008







Tickets on sale Dec. 1, 2007

Lineup also includes Keith Urban, LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allan and a special set by Sammy Hagar

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - In 2006, the New England Country Music Festival featuring Kenny Chesney was the top-grossing single-day country music show in history. In 2007, Chesney returned to Gillette Stadium and sold out more than 50,000 tickets in fifteen minutes. Today, Kraft Entertainment announced that the three-time Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year will bring his record-breaking ways back to Gillette to headline the Fifth Annual New England Country Music Festival on Saturday, July 26, 2007.

Chesney will be toting an all-star lineup that includes 2006 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year Keith Urban, two-time Grammy-winner LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allan and a special set by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Sammy Hagar as Chesney makes the Foxborough event a stop on his upcoming "Poets & Pirates Tour."

The New England Country Music Festival is the largest concert series in New England and has sold out Gillette Stadium in each of its four years. Chesney has headlined the festival for the last three years.

Tickets go on sale Dec. 1 at all Ticketmaster outlets, by calling (617/508) 931-2000 or online at Ticketmaster.com

***Edited to add***
IF this was the complete line up for the entire summer concert series, I would be 1 happy camper!!!

[yoohoo]

Sounds like a job for beerinboston!

[beerinboston]

Holy Crap...the 26th is my B-Day! Looks like the party at Gillette this year! This is fantastic news!

[BeachTenant]

hahahaha, what a way to celebrate!! Cant believe the the date, and to be close to home? Your very lucky. I sure hope you go, get pics, and GREAT seats!!!

[beerinboston]

I did get great seats...2nd row of the mezzanine by the stage. Pretty close to the action. It's going to be awesome...Is it summer yet?

[BeachTenant]

HOLY COW, those are great seats!!! Congratz.

[lilmisschesney18]

Thats Great! Ok, whodoya know and can you get more tix?? lol

[beerinboston]

There were 2 pre-sales. The 1st for Gillette Stadium members and the 2nd for WKLB members. Each pre-sale offered great seats. Glad I got mine when I did!

[yoohoo]

Did you get enough for all of us?

[BeachTenant]

I'm sure IF he could, he would have
anway, check this out:

Kenny Chesney sells out first stadium show in 15 minutes!


Fifteen minutes after tickets went on sale for Kenny Chesney's stadium date in Massachusetts next summer, they were gone.

"You know it's just surreal, but what a way to start out our year and our tour," said Chesney of the July 26 sell out of the Poets & Pirates tour at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. "I was home for Thanksgiving, thinking about how far we've come and the people who've been a part of it, like the fans that have come out and rocked with us in Boston for years. Boston, Massachusetts? A kid from outside Knoxville like me? It's kinda crazy.

"But it's amazing how people everywhere like to get together, have a party, forget about what's bothering them," Chesney said. "I try to make these shows be the kinda thing people can build a summer around - all the memories, the friends, the good times. Boston, when you guys buy all these tickets so fast, you make me feel like we're connecting just the way we hope we can."

Joining Chesney for this year's show will be Keith Urban, Sammy Hagar, LeAnn Rimes and Gary Allen.

"It's gonna be a big day of all kinds of music," said Chesney. "I am a fan of every one of these acts - and they each bring something a bit different to the mix. Whether it's Sammy's hardcore rocking or Gary Allen's West Coast cool, LeAnn Rime's freshness and just everything about what my good friend Keith Urban does, this will be a day where you're gonna be engaged from the moment you get there."

"There isn't a kind of show I don't like playing," Chesney said. "But there's something about the stadium shows, an intensity to them, and last year, an odd kind of intimacy. There is no rush like it - and the fans, especially ones at far back, they are so in the music, we can feel them from the stage. Right now, I gotta tell you: I'm starting to get psyched about getting back to rehearsals and getting out there."
C'MON SUMMER!!!!!!!

[yoohoo]

Good thing beerinboston got our tickets before they went on sale to the public!