{"id":19440,"date":"2022-04-25T05:55:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=19440"},"modified":"2022-04-25T04:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:32:53","slug":"kenny-chesney-returns-to-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/04\/kenny-chesney-returns-to-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney Returns To The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Chesney had a hard time adjusting to a very different way of life during the pandemic, most especially not being able to tour and connect with his fans night after night.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI used to be a very impatient person then the music business taught me patience and the coronavirus taught me that I didn\u2019t have as much patience as I thought because I love playing music, I\u2019m impatient when it comes to wanting to get out there and feel that energy again. I feel lost without it so I think that I don\u2019t know it just made me be still when it\u2019s hard for me to be still. It\u2019s been a struggle there\u2019s no doubt about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kenny was finally reunited with his No Shoes Nation on Saturday, April 23rd at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida for the first night of his Here And Now Tour.<\/p>\n<p>He was so excited, Kenny actually took the stage two minutes early, greeting a capacity crowd of 58,369 people, which surpassed his own 2018 record of 55,292. He performed for over two hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI knew it was going to be good, but this was other level stuff . . . If music holds people together, it also brings them together \u2013 and lets them release so much of what\u2019s locked inside. After four years, we were together again &#8212; and we were going to squeeze every last drop and bit of passion out of every single song.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CcvIQmpuMJD\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Kenny and his tour mates, Old Dominion, actually got the party started on Thursday, April 21st where Old Dominion announced a pop-up show at Ybor City\u2019s Crowbar and performed an intimate set for about 300 fans, according to the Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny showed up halfway through the set where he joined the band on his hit &#8220;Save It For A Rainy Day.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Ccp5Mm4Otzo\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CcqmaRLA4sn\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>The Here and Now 2022 Tour comes into Detroit on August 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney had a hard time adjusting to a very different way of life during the pandemic, most especially not being able to tour and connect with his fans night after night.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[5589,3032,365],"class_list":["post-19440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-here-and-now-tour","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-old-dominion"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 03:22:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/04\/kenny-chesney-returns-to-the-road\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}