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," Kenny says of the July 26 sellout of his 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."
Joining Kenny 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," Kenny says. "I am a fan of every one of these acts — and they each bring something a bit different to the mix.... This will be a day where you're gonna be engaged from the moment you get there."
Kenny says for him there's something special about stadium shows — that they're intense and still feel ntimate despite the size of the crowd. "There is no rush like it," he says, "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."