Kenny Chesney Throws Boston Hurricane Party
Kenny Chesney photo by Jill Trunnell, courtesy of Shore Fire Media.
Nothing can stop Kenny Chesney‘s fans — not even Hurricane Irene! Last Saturday in Foxboro, MA, as 2,000 tickets released on the day of the show were snapped up within minutes despite hurricane warnings, bringing the attendance for Saturday’s show to 59,000 and the total for Kenny’s two sold-out Gillette Stadium shows to over 106,000.
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Kenny celebrated the close of his 2011 ‘Goin’ Coastal’ Tour with a set that included a massive crowd sing-along on “She’s From Boston,” a high kicking chorus line by Billy Currington and his band on “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems,” ”Baby Got Back” with Zac Brown Band, and a mid-set award by CMA President Steve Moore to Kenny’s keyboardist Wyatt Beard as the CMA’s first-ever ‘Touring Musician of the Year.’ Kenny called the Foxboro crowd “one of the loudest and most loving crowds of the tour.”
Kenny’s Foxboro concert was an exciting cap to an eventful week for the superstar. On Friday, he regaled his fans at the first CMA Songwriter Series event in Boston, an intimate performance chat with a handful of Music Row’s biggest hitmakers. He also made a surprise visit to the Boston College football team the Eagles on Friday following a screening of his documentary ‘The Boys of Fall’, then spent an hour practicing with the New England Patriots but was unsuccessful in attempting Continue Reading
