Kenny Chesney brings
The Big Revival To St. Louis!
Scottrade Center – MAY 6, 2015
ON SALE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 AT 10AM
With special guests: Jake Owen & Chase Rice
Nashville,
TN: With nearly two dozen NFL-sized stadiums plays slated for this
summer, Kenny Chesney took a good look at his remaining dates and
thought about the show he was planning for
this tour. Knowing each venue has individual needs – and scaling down
from stadium- size, especially the amphitheaters, can remove some of the
impact, he chose carefully.
“For all the time we had to create for the Big Revival Tour,” Chesney
says, “I wanted to make sure the fans got to experience it. I
love amphitheaters and all the fun... But I want to give the fans
the same impact with the show, because The Big Revival’s set up to be
pretty special.”
Chesney’s non-stadium Big Revival shows will be played mostly in
enclosed arenas. Not all the dates have been announced – in part due to
seeking the best venues
to streamline the production and not lose impact – but an almost
complete tour schedule is attached. After a year off the road, Chesney
is ready to get back to the fans, starting March 26 at the Bridgestone
Arena.
“I can’t begin to describe the difference spending the time and being
able to really focus on creating an album in terms of the songs, the
production, the intensity,”
Chesney says. “It feels like the same way we put this year’s tour
together! We had more time to consider what we wanted, so we were able
to get more creative and could dream a little more wide open...
“A year away from the fans, whether people realize it or not, is hard on me. I
live to play – as much as I live to write songs and make music.
So I’m ready to get out there and play this new music for people. I want
give them a taste of how good
The Big Revival is -- and hear them singing ‘Til It’s Gone,’ ‘American Kids’ or even ‘The Big Revival’ back to me!”
Having sold in excess of a million tickets each of his headlining tours, Chesney is the
only Country Artist in Billboard’s Top 10 Tour Acts of the
Last 25 years – and that’s with only 12 years as a headliner. After his
first stadium concert – 2003’s Neyland Stadium show, selling over
60,000 tickets in Knoxville – Chesney has played
111 football stadium shows in total.
“It’s a different kind of show, a different kind of energy – and what
the fans bring in that environment hits every one of us onstage so
hard,” Chesney says of
the rush. “Every show is incredible, but there’s something about those
really big ones. I think we were able to channel some of
that excitement into the songs on this record – and I want to see
if we can bring that intensity to the arenas and the few amphitheaters
we’re playing this summer.”
The Big Revival, his 13th #1 Billboard Country Album debut, already yielded his 25th
#1 with the multiple week chart-topper “American Kids,” also nominated
for Best Country Song at the Grammys. “’Til It’s Gone,” the follow-up,
is poised just outside #1 this week with a bullet.
Even the critics concur.
Rolling Stone offered The Big Revival “continuously brings a sense of musical energy and emotional urgency.” while
USA Today called it, “a coming-of-age tale full of life-changing
memories” and The Associated Press wrote, “avoids the cliches flowing
through contemporary country songs by injecting some real-life
gravitas.”
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