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Kenny Chesney Announces 2023 I Go Back Tour

Kelsea Ballerini will join Kenny Chesney on the I Go Back Tour. The pair share award-winning duet "Half of My Hometown. "

Kenny Chesney fans know what's at the top of their Christmas lists – concert tickets.

Chesney revealed Monday that he and "Half of My Hometown" duet partner Kelsea Ballerini would embark on the I Go Back Tour in 2023. Ticket presale starts Monday, November 28.

"'I Go Back' is a song about holding all those things that shaped you very close and keeping them alive any way you can," Chesney said on Instagram. "In 2023, I decided rather than just go repeat what we did on this summer's stadium tour, I wanted to take this band and these songs to a lot of the cities we played on our way up, call it the I Go Back Tour and do just that."

Cities on Chesney's I Go Back Tour include Wichita, Kansas; Lexington, Kentucky; Birmingham, Alabama; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Lincoln, Nebraska.

"Kelsea understands everything about where I come from because she's from there, too," Chesney said in a statement. Both singers are from near Knoxville, Tennessee. "She knows how hard it is to leave, how much you miss all those things that make you who you are... but also how the only way to chase the kind of dream she has is to do just that. It's a tough call when you love home the way we both do, but for kids like us, there was never really a choice."

Their shared background made their duet "Half of My Hometown" make sense to each of the singers.

"When she texted me to sing on the song she'd written with some of our friends, I said, 'Let me hear it,' knowing she knew everything about who I was," Chesney said in a statement. "As soon as I heard that first verse, I was in. And I have been one of Kelsea's biggest fans ever since. She's a writer, a girl who sings from her heart and isn't afraid to honor where she comes from. To me, there was no other choice for this tour."

Ballerini said that singing with Chesney is like "going home."

"Music has taken me so many incredible places," Ballerini said in a statement. "Around the world, singing with some of my heroes in pop, alternative and contemporary music, but singing with Kenny is going home. He was the only voice I heard on 'half of my hometown,' and when he came in, it's just like hitting the Knoxville city limits. So to be able to go out to those cities like the place he and I grew up with an artist who's accomplished what he has, it's a lot like going home."

"Half of My Hometown" won the 2021 Country Music Association Vocal Event and Video of the Year for and was nominated for 2022 CMA Single of the Year.

I Go Back 2023 is Presented by Blue Chair Bay Rum. American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets in select markets before the general public beginning Wednesday, November 23 at 10 a.m. local time through Thursday, December 1 at 10 p.m. local time. Tickets on sale December 2 at 10 a.m. local time at KennyChesney.com.

Kenny Chesney I Go Back Tour:

March 25 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center

March 30 Wichita, KS  INTRUST Bank Arena

April 1 Oklahoma City, OK Paycom Center

April 6 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena

April 8 Wilkes-Barre Township, PA Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza

April 12 Birmingham, AL Legacy Arena at the BJCC

April 14 Jacksonville, FL Daily’s Place Amphitheater

April 16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Tortuga*

April 25  Lexington, KY Rupp Arena

April 27 Greenville, SC Bon Secours Wellness Arena

April 29 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum

May 4 Moline, IL Vibrant Arena at The Mark

May 6 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena

May 9 Grand Forks, ND The Alerus Center

May 11 Sioux Falls, SD Denny Sanford Premier Center

May 13 Lincoln, NE Pinnacle Bank Arena

May 18 Fort Wayne, IN Allen County War Memorial Coliseum

May 20  Evansville, IN Ford Center

May 25 Charleston, SC Credit One Stadium

May 27 Orange Beach, AL The Wharf

July 22 Des Moines, IA  Hy-Vee Indy Race*

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