{"id":72641,"date":"2020-01-12T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T08:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=72641"},"modified":"2020-01-12T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T08:18:31","slug":"rascal-flatts-say-farewell-with-life-is-a-highway-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/12\/rascal-flatts-say-farewell-with-life-is-a-highway-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Rascal Flatts Say Farewell With Life Is a Highway Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Rascal Flatts to Say Farewell With 2020 Life Is a Highway Tour<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Greatest feeling ever is being told our music has been the soundtrack to their lives<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"After 20 years of country stardom, Rascal Flatts will ride off into the sunset this year, announcing their Rascal Flatts Farewell: Life Is a Highway Tour. Marking the end of a transformative era in the format, the hit-making trio revealed their surprise decision on CBS This Morning<\/em> Tuesday (June 7), saying it was time for one last \u201cthank you\u201d to their fans. \u201cI know, it hurts us, too,\u201d said frontman Gary LeVox as he broke the news.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started out 20 years ago, we could not imagine all of the people, places, and gifts we would encounter,\u201d LeVox (49) followed up in a statement and said this,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest feeling ever is being told that our music has been the soundtrack to their lives.” LeVox<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

What greater gift can an artist receive than to be told \u2018I got married to \u201cBless The Broken Road,\u201d\u2019 or \u2018We played\u00a0\u201cMy Wish\u201d\u00a0at my graduation.\u2019 That \u2018\u201cWhat Hurts The Most\u201d\u00a0is the song that made me love country music for the first time,\u2019 or \u2018\u201cI\u2019m Movin\u2019 On\u201d\u00a0helped me get sober\u2019 or even that \u2018\u201cChanged\u201d made me call my family again after not talking to them for years.\u2019 That\u2019s why we create music and the reason we can\u2019t wait to celebrate this incredible 20-year journey all year, with our fans who we love dearly. I don\u2019t know what God has in store for the future, but I am excited to see what He has planned!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really looking forward to getting to spend this entire year loving on our fans, and thanking them for allowing us to have the most amazing career over the last 20 years,\u201d added the band\u2019s, Jay DeMarcus. \u201cWhile it is, of course, bittersweet, it is so important to us to celebrate what our music has meant to their lives, as well as what the fans have meant to us.<\/p>\n

\"\"There is no sadness here, just new chapters, new journeys, and new beginnings. Rascal Flatts\u2019 music will live on forever, because of our fans, and this year is all about them!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDreams do come true \u2026 and we are three walking examples of this truth,\u201d guitarist Joe Don Rooney said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI\u2019m most proud of the fact that we\u2019ve pursued our dreams together and with courage, hard work, and dedication we\u2019ve been able to cultivate our dreams into reality; it\u2019s simply incredible! There\u2019s no doubt we have been blessed way beyond belief and we can\u2019t wait to spend the rest of 2020 expressing our love and appreciation to all of our devoted fans, music industry friends and our families for believing in us and playing a major role in our path to here, said Joe.<\/p>\n

\"\"“I personally can\u2019t wait to shine a light on my brothers Jay and Gary this year, and make another mountain of new memories with them.\u201d Joe Don Rooney<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The group \u2014 which holds the title of the most-awarded country act of the last decade \u2014 began their journey in 2000, mixing solid country themes and musicianship with the crossover pop of the Y2K boy-band era. They went on to score 17 No.1 singles, and in 2006 was the best-selling musical act on the planet (of all genres).<\/p>\n

Kicking off on June 11\u00a0in\u00a0Indianapolis, the trio\u2019s farewell tour will visit 25 cities across the U.S., wrapping with an emotional show in West Palm Beach, Florida, October 17. Tickets will be available first as part of the Live Nation Country Megaticket, with more information coming soon.<\/p>\n

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Rascal Flatts to Say Farewell With 2020 Life Is a Highway Tour Greatest feeling ever is being told our music has been the soundtrack to their lives After 20 years of country stardom, Rascal Flatts will ride off into the sunset this year, announcing their Rascal Flatts Farewell: Life Is a Highway Tour. Marking the end of a transformative era in the format, the hit-making trio revealed their surprise decision on CBS This Morning Tuesday (June 7), saying it was time for one last \u201cthank you\u201d to their fans. \u201cI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}