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Kenny Chesney rounds third, follows two previous Target Field appearances with 2015 booking

by Brenda Tran

October 28, 2014

For the third time in four years, Kenny Chesney will be making an appearance at Target Field. The 13-time chart-topping country singer’s “Big Revival Tour” will merge with Jason Aldean’s “Burn it Down Tour,” with a Target Field show on Saturday, July 18, 2015. Ticket info and complete artist lineup will be announced at a later date. Update 12/2: Tickets are now on sale for the July 18 show, and a second show has been added for July 19. Jason Aldean has been added to the bill for both shows.

That's a lot of local love for Chesney—further evidence that the Twin Cities are one of the nation's largest markets for country music. Recently, Garth Brooks set a personal record by selling nearly 200,000 tickets to his upcoming 11-show run at Target Center. Chesney, who played the first-ever concert at Target Field in 2012, knows how to please a local crowd: at his show last year, Keith Harris reported in City Pages, Chesney "expertly stoked our collective local ego, reminiscing about a birthday he once spent in Minnesota, exchanging a cowboy hat for a Twins cap mid-set, halting the traffic-beating rush for the gates during show-closer 'The Boys of Fall' by inviting Christian Ponder onstage to give a fan an autographed helmet."

Though Chesney didn't play Target Field this summer, 2014 became the venue's biggest year for live music yet—including a historic show by Paul McCartney and a two-day Skyline Music Festival featuring Andrew Bird and the New Pornographers. Another local ballpark making music history this year was the soon-to-be-destroyed Midway Stadium, which hosted the first local Replacements show in 23 years.

Brenda Tran is a student at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities.

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