Source: Kenny Chesney Official Website - kennychesney.com
CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year Joins Willie, Neil, John & Dave Sept 18
Tinley Park, IL: Having a breakthrough hit with "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," reigning Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney obviously has an affinity for America's family farmers. And on September 18, Chesney will put that commitment to work when he joins Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and his friend John Mellencamp to participate in the 20th anniversary of Farm Aid Concert.
"I remember the first Farm Aid, and the spirit of all those musicians coming together to be the voice of the families who made their living as farmers -- and had for generations," says the Luttrell, Tennessean. "And what I love about Farm Aid is, even beyond raising money -- and they've raised over 27 million dollars -- they make sure that America doesn't forget about the people who are a lot like the folks where I come from, who grow the food that we eat and think about it as something they'd feed their families. Now that's powerful."
The 20th Anniversary Farm Aid Concert will be held at the Tweeter Center in Tinley Park, Illinois -- located in the same kind of heartland country as 1985's original concert in Champagne, Illinois. This year's show is being sponsored by Silk Soymilk.
The man whose quadruple platinum "When The Sun Goes Down" is the CMA Album of the Year and whose introspective "Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair" became Chesney's third album to debut at #1 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 first met Farm Aid board member Mellencamp when the two performed on CMT's "Crossroads" two years ago.
Chesney is in the middle of quite a year. In addition to appearing at Farm Aid this year, Chesney's current Somewhere In The Sun Tour -- at this point, the concert tour that's sold more tickets than any other act on the road in America, ahead of U2 by over 200,000 tickets -- heads into Boston on July 23 for the second of three stadium shows this summer. His July 30th stadium concert in Pittsburgh -- also featuring ACM Top Male Vocalist Keith Urban, ACM Top Female Vocalist Gretchen Wilson, multiple Grammy-nominee Pat Green and urban pop/rapper Uncle Kracker -- will be captured for Chesney's "Somewhere In The Sun" ABC special, which will air on the network Nov. 23.
"You don't really think about what's going on when it's happening," says Chesney of the success. "You see the faces. You hear the screams. You play as hard as you can. But when you can give back, especially to something like this, you just want to. So I'm glad we're able to take part."
Tickets for America's longest running benefit concert series go on sale July 30 at 10 a.m. CDT and are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Tweeter Center box office, charge by phone in Chicago at (312)-559-1212, or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices for Farm Aid 2005 presented by Silk Soymilk begin at $30 for lawn seats, $65 for pavilion seats and $85 for corn belt seats. For more information about Farm Aid's 20th anniversary concert and events, visit www.farmaid.org.
Tinley Park, IL: Having a breakthrough hit with "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," reigning Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney obviously has an affinity for America's family farmers. And on September 18, Chesney will put that commitment to work when he joins Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and his friend John Mellencamp to participate in the 20th anniversary of Farm Aid Concert.
"I remember the first Farm Aid, and the spirit of all those musicians coming together to be the voice of the families who made their living as farmers -- and had for generations," says the Luttrell, Tennessean. "And what I love about Farm Aid is, even beyond raising money -- and they've raised over 27 million dollars -- they make sure that America doesn't forget about the people who are a lot like the folks where I come from, who grow the food that we eat and think about it as something they'd feed their families. Now that's powerful."
The 20th Anniversary Farm Aid Concert will be held at the Tweeter Center in Tinley Park, Illinois -- located in the same kind of heartland country as 1985's original concert in Champagne, Illinois. This year's show is being sponsored by Silk Soymilk.
The man whose quadruple platinum "When The Sun Goes Down" is the CMA Album of the Year and whose introspective "Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair" became Chesney's third album to debut at #1 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 first met Farm Aid board member Mellencamp when the two performed on CMT's "Crossroads" two years ago.
Chesney is in the middle of quite a year. In addition to appearing at Farm Aid this year, Chesney's current Somewhere In The Sun Tour -- at this point, the concert tour that's sold more tickets than any other act on the road in America, ahead of U2 by over 200,000 tickets -- heads into Boston on July 23 for the second of three stadium shows this summer. His July 30th stadium concert in Pittsburgh -- also featuring ACM Top Male Vocalist Keith Urban, ACM Top Female Vocalist Gretchen Wilson, multiple Grammy-nominee Pat Green and urban pop/rapper Uncle Kracker -- will be captured for Chesney's "Somewhere In The Sun" ABC special, which will air on the network Nov. 23.
"You don't really think about what's going on when it's happening," says Chesney of the success. "You see the faces. You hear the screams. You play as hard as you can. But when you can give back, especially to something like this, you just want to. So I'm glad we're able to take part."
Tickets for America's longest running benefit concert series go on sale July 30 at 10 a.m. CDT and are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, the Tweeter Center box office, charge by phone in Chicago at (312)-559-1212, or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Ticket prices for Farm Aid 2005 presented by Silk Soymilk begin at $30 for lawn seats, $65 for pavilion seats and $85 for corn belt seats. For more information about Farm Aid's 20th anniversary concert and events, visit www.farmaid.org.
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