Kenny Chesney Swings Tour Through Texas

Kenny Chesney, in the second week of his Sun City Carnival Tour, is planning a three-date run in Texas. The entertainer just finished a sold-out trip to Vegas's Hard Rock and to Indio, California's Stagecoach Festival.

“The thing about Texas country fans,” Chesney said, “They come to hit it hard…and you know, they're gonna have a big time doing it. There's never been a time in my career - even when we were touring on the Iron Lung, a bus that leaked fumes back into where we were - that those fans didn't make us feel like stars…and when we were on that stage, they responded like we were something else. I can't wait to give them a taste of this year's show.”

Opening the run at San Antonio's AT&T Center on May 1, Chesney and his opening acts, Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum, will then hit Dallas' Pizza Hut Park on May 2 and the CWM Pavilion in Houston on May 3. As Dallas is a stadium, the tour will also be joined by Chesney tour alums and good friends, Sugarland.

“It feels great to be back out there,” explains the man who's entertained over a million fans each of the past seven summers. “You spend so much time getting ready…thinking about what the fans might like…and you have all this time, working and figuring stuff out. But when you're on that stage, the band's rocking and you're looking into the faces of all the people who're so into the music, it just makes all that work mean even more than whatever you out it into it - and I know in Texas, it's even more so. Every time we go down there, we have a blast.”

Also, because Pizza Hut Park is an all-day show, look for the first of the Corona Party Zones to establish a tail-gating nation with games, music and grilling.

“I always tell people our show starts long before we hit the stage,” Chesney said. “I live to get out there on a Gator and buzz around the lot. You see people having the best time: they're playing Frisbee, blaring their music, making their margaritas or kicking back in a lounge chair having a few beers and they're just so chilled out. Some folks bring their own sand, some people paint their trucks and it seems like everybody makes new friends… If I didn't have to save my voice for the show that night, you can bet I'd be out there partying with all of them 'cause they know how to do it.”