New York, NY (Top40 Charts / Sirius XM Holdings) SiriusXM announced today that Kenny Chesney, country music superstar and the man The Wall Street Journal called "The King of the Road," will bring his No Shoes
Radio channel exclusively to SiriusXM.
No Shoes Radio, Kenny Chesney's exclusive SiriusXM channel, curated by Chesney himself, will feature music from Chesney, from his favorite artists across multiple styles of music, rare live performances and special coverage of backstage happenings at Chesney's concerts.
To celebrate the SiriusXM launch of No Shoes Radio,
Kenny Chesney will perform a special, private concert for SiriusXM at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ on May 12. The concert will air live and exclusively on Chesney's No Shoes Radio.
"We've spent eight years building No Shoes Radio," says the 8-time Academy of Country
Music and Country
Music Association Entertainer of the Year. "It's always been a place where I could share songs I love, musicians I find, things on my computer nobody's ever heard - and blur the lines between my records and everything from reggae to rock to bluegrass. To partner with SiriusXM as part of their Artist Driven platform of stations means No Shoes
Radio will be able to reach even more people who love songs and music the same way I do. That's awesome."
"We are so excited to work with Kenny on his No Shoes Radio, now exclusively on SiriusXM. His massive fan base will love having unprecedented access to Kenny's favorite music and a variety of things only he has access to. We are also thrilled to be expanding SiriusXM's unmatched offering of country music to our nation of listeners," said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SiriusXM.
Kenny Chesney's No Shoes
Radio will debut on SiriusXM, Tuesday, April 12 at 6:00 pm ET on channel 62 and through the SiriusXM App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as at www.siriusxm.com/streaming.
Subscribers will have the opportunity to win tickets Chesney's private concert for SiriusXM at the Stone Pony on May 12 through an invitation sent by e-mail as well as various call-in promotions. Beginning March 31, SiriusXM subscribers since March 7 can also enter for the chance to win a trip to New Jersey and tickets to the concert. One grand prize winner will receive a trip for two including round-trip airfare, two nights' hotel stay, a pair of tickets to the exclusive concert and the opportunity to meet Kenny Chesney. See Official Rules for complete details which will be at www.siriusxm.com/KennyChesneySweeps.
Kenny Chesney's No Shoes
Radio is consistent with SiriusXM channels created with iconic and prominent artists, including Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio, Jimmy Buffett's
Radio Margaritaville, Willie Nelson's Willie's Roadhouse, The
Pink Floyd Channel, B.B. King's Bluesville, Elvis Radio, Siriusly Sinatra, Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzy's Boneyard,
Pearl Jam Radio, Eminem's
Shade 45,Tiësto's Club Life Radio,
Neil Diamond Radio and
Tom Petty Radio.
For more information, please visit www.siriusxm.com/noshoesradio.
About Kenny Chesney:
An 8-time Academy of Country
Music and Country
Music Association Entertainer of the Year,
Kenny Chesney is the only country artist on Billboard's Top 10 Touring Acts of the Last 25 Years. With 28 #1s, including "American Kids," "Boys of Fall," "Somewhere with You," "There Goes My Life," "Young," "You & Tequila," "Pirate Flag" and "Summertime," the man The Los Angeles Times crowned "The People's Superstar" built the No Shoes Nation, one of music's most rabid fan bases, through intense, high-energy shows and songs that captured key moments and memories in real people's lives.
An aggressive progressive country star, he has recorded with
Grace Potter, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews,
Joe Walsh and Uncle Kracker. Whether pioneering No Shoes Radio, creating Blue Chair Bay Rum, founding the Spread the Love Fund to benefit amputee survivors of the
Boston Marathon bombing or writing songs that capture the marrow of truly living life in the flyover, Chesney has defined coming of age in the 21st century - winning the Academy of Country Music's Male Vocalist of the Year and Single of the Year for "
The Good Stuff" and the Country
Music Association's Album of the Year for When The Sun Goes Down along the way.
