Taylor Swift, bank on it. She's mapping out her 2010 tour now and it already has dates into June so you can count on that one. I guess you can also safely assume that Kenny Chesney will be there also. I can see Basich already scouring the retirement homes for wonderful acts like Nelson, Stryper and Kool & The Gang too fill the rest of the dates ...
I Love you man! Rock on. See you in Alabama at the Bamajam. Yor'ew the king. I think that you are better than Elvis. Who cares what anyone else says ...
In a few days, officials will release attendance figures and they likely will indicate a drop from the 2008 total. We can point a couple of reasons for that, including the sluggish economy, a long Brewers homestand, some unseasonably cool and cloudy weather, the calendar (with July 4 falling on Saturday) and a solid-but-unspectacular lineup of musical acts. In the aftermath of the festival, we offer the following hits and misses. Feel free to use the Talkback feature to add your own.
From Dave Tianen - 102 year old music critic for the Journal Sentinel - in today's review of last night's Kenny Chesney show: ... "Most of the great music festivals are specialized events. Coachella is a modern rock festival. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is exactly what the name says. But Summerfest does not play genre favorites ... With one exception: If there was a music genre called "fun," that's where Summerfest would live." ... Ummm ... okaaaaaaay ... "Summerfest doesn't play
Perhaps nobody in contemporary music has mastered the art of fun more completely than Kenny Chesney. This was big-budget, lavishly produced fun with giant-screen beach parties, a big, first-class band (Jim Horn is one of several horn players) and a bulging songbook of hits built around kicking back on the beach ...
That was the best Kenny concert I have ever been to. The first time I was right up front too. All of the bands were great, the set up crews were quick ...
At 41, Kenny Chesney plays, sings and lives like he's 25. This tour, his "Sun City Carnival Tour" features his new single, "Out Last Night, " the lead track from his Greatest Hits II disc that was released May 19 on BNA Records.
Bon Jovi, Keith Urban, Stevie Wonder, Kiss, Chicago, Bob Dylan, No Doubt, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, The Fray, Kid Rock. Do any of those names get you fired up? If so, you're in luck, because these are the headlining acts that will perform at the Marcus Amphitheater during Summerfest 2009, June 25 - July 5.