It was a night of surges and highlights. Telling the packed crowd they’d been in rehearsals since February and were so glad to be playing for actual human beings, the audience cheered even harder. Often it felt like a competition to see who could out-love the other, as the audience pulled an extra last chorus of “American Kids” and sang so loud it poured onto the stage during “The Good Stuff.”
From the moment Chesney came down the drum riser, the band full-tilt into “Living in Fast Forward,” it was obvious they’d come to play hard. A cascade of “Beer In Mexico” into “Keg in the Closet” into the five guitars blazing “KC/DC” march down the T, bringing the music as close to No Shoes Nation as possible, the momentum never stopped. Whether the sexy “Somewhere with You,” the countryfied Chris Stapleton-penned “Never Wanted Nothing More” or the gulp life down “Til It’s Gone,” it was song forward, muscular music sent into the near perfect night.
“You think about it, you anticipate, you wait – and no matter how many times you’ve done this,” Chesney marveled after the show, “there is nothing like the way that crowd hits you. They came to sing, to cheer and just love the night, and they sure did.”
With the cars wrapped all the way around the stadium before 9 a.m. and folks in line not much later, No Shoes Nation came ready. Tiki bars, pirate flags, corn hole courts, grills’n’blenders and sundry skeletons created a tableau in the parking lot that was distinctly redolent of Chesney’s poets and pirates reality. That sense of friendship extended to the stage as well.
When Uncle Kracker emerged from the wings for “When The Sun Goes Down,” their multiple week No. 1, the crowd erupted in shrieks seeing the two friends reunited. As the song came to a close, production manager Ed Wannebo rambled onstage with the ceremonial massive margarita; but instead of one giant tumbler, he had a pair. With a toast, a drink and a laugh, they two shared Kracker’s remake of Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away,” again with the crowd singing along full voice.
“Nobody sings like No Shoes Nation,” the man deemed “the King of the Road” by the Wall Street Journal and “country’s king of stadium concerts” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “When I hear those voices coming back at us, how much they mean these songs, I feel like I’m home, and home is a really good place to be.”
Once again, presented by Blue Chair Bay® Rum, Sun Goes Down 2024 brings all the high velocity energy and songs people know by heart back to America’s favorite football stadiums.
Kenny Chesney
SUN GOES DOWN 2024 Stadium Tour
with Zac Brown Band, Megan Moroney & Uncle Kracker
| April 20 | Tampa, Fla. | Raymond James Stadium |
| April 27 | Charlotte, N.C. | Bank of America Stadium |
| May 4 | Minneapolis, Minn. | U.S. Bank Stadium |
| May 9 | The Woodlands, Texas. | The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion^ |
| May 11 | Arlington, Texas | AT&T Stadium |
| May 16 | Hollywood, Fla. | Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino^ |
| May 18 | Atlanta, Ga. | Mercedes-Benz Stadium |
| May 25 | Landover, Md. | Commanders Field |
| May 30 | Syracuse, N.Y. | Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview^ |
| June 1 | Pittsburgh, Pa. | Acrisure Stadium |
| June 6 | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio | Blossom Music Center |
| June 8 | Philadelphia, Pa. | Lincoln Financial Field (Sold Out) |
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| June 13 | Maryland Heights, Mo. | Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre^ |
| June 15 | Chicago, Ill. | Soldier Field |
| June 20 | Noblesville, Ind. | Ruoff Music Center^ |
| June 22 | Milwaukee, Wisc. | American Family Field |
| June 27 | Darien Center, N.Y. | Darien Lake Amphitheater^ |
| June 29 | Cincinnati, Ohio | TQL Stadium* |
| July 6 | Kansas City, Mo. | GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium |
| July 11 | Boise, Idaho | Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater^ |
| July 13 | Seattle, Wash. | Lumen Field |
| July 16 | Salt Lake City, Utah | America First Field* |
| July 18 | Wheatland, Calif. | Toyota Amphitheatre^ |
| July 20 | Los Angeles, Calif. | SoFi Stadium |
| July 24 | Phoenix, Ariz. | Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre^ |
| July 27 | Denver, Colo. | Empower Field at Mile High Stadium |
| Aug. 3 | Nashville, Tenn. | Nissan Stadium |
| Aug. 8 | Columbus, Ohio | Historic Crew Stadium* |
| Aug. 10 | Detroit, Mich | Ford Field |
| Aug. 15 | Bangor, Maine | Maine Savings Amphitheater^ |
| Aug. 17 | East Rutherford, N.J. | MetLife Stadium |
| Aug. 23 | Foxborough, Mass. | Gillette Stadium (Sold Out) |
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| Aug. 24 | Foxborough, Mass. | Gillette Stadium (Sold Out) |
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| Aug. 25 | Foxborough, Mass. | Gillette Stadium (Sold Out) |
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* Megan Moroney and Uncle Kracker only
^ Megan Moroney only
“...because everything gets hotter when the sun goes down...”
