Country music at the Sphere.
Today, Kenny Chesney announced a limited-run residency at Sphere in Las Vegas set for this summer, which is a dome shaped $2.3 billion (yes, with a b) venue and state-of-the-art building that is covered with LED panels and gives an entirely new experience for fans.
This is the inside of The Las Vegas Sphere 🤯 pic.twitter.com/CzXSUa6pQ0
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Chesney says he’s always looking for new ways to deepen the concert-going experience for his fans, and playing at the Sphere will certainly take it to the next level:
“I’m always looking for ways to deepen the way No Shoes Nation experiences this music. Over the years, they have shown me through their own response to these songs how passionate they are about what they mean, how these songs are part of their lives.
When people give you that much heart, I want to give them even more. When we started talking about all of the possibilities playing Sphere offered, I was all in.
Just the idea of 4D technology and the impossibly dialed in sound raises the experience for No Shoes Nation, literally immersing them in music, visuals, sound and being together. To me, this is going to be a whole new way of rocking the fans, and I can’t wait.”
He explained that he got a look at one of U2’s shows there, and he was sold on the idea of playing his own there almost immediately:
“When we started talking, I flew to Vegas with my key tour team. We stood on the floor as they ran the film of U2’s show and we were completely consumed. We could see the band, but it was so much more than that. It almost took what they were doing and multiplied it by another dimension.
Knowing how much intensity our shows generate, my mind started thinking about all the things we could do. Once you see how the show wraps all the way around you, the dreaming begins.”
He joins the likes of the aforementioned U2, Dead & Company, Eagles, Phish and Afterlife Presents Anyma in performing at the Sphere, which is a 17,600-seat spherical venue that has redefined the live entertainment experience and employs next-generation technologies.
Sphere is known for its 167,000 individual speakers, which can be dialed in to each section with dazzling specificity, and fully immersive visual capabilities that deliver over 171 million pixels across a 160,000 square foot screen wrapping up, over and around the audience, plus 4D technologies including haptic seats. It also features a 16K x 16K resolution wraparound screen, the world’s highest-resolution LED display.
Chesney wrapped up an extensive and successful stadium tour in 2024, but this Sphere residency will be unlike any of the shows he’s ever played before, and I’m excited to what it’s like for a country act to headline this high tech venue, because he’ll be one the first big mainstream artists to do it.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, January 31st, and you can view the full list of show dates below.
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Kenny Chesney Live at Sphere Las Vegas dates:
Thursday, May 22
Saturday, May 24
Sunday, May 25
Wednesday, May 28
Friday, May 30
Saturday, May 31
Wednesday, June 4
Friday, June 6
Saturday, June 7
Wednesday, June 11
Friday, June 13
Saturday, June 14
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