Rascal Flatts relaunching “Unstoppable” tour this weekend
Joe Don Rooney, left, and Gary LeVox of Rascal Flatts perform. (Associated Press file photo)
Five-time American Music Award Group of the Year winners Rascal Flatts will kick off this weekend the final leg of their “Rascal Flatts American Living Unstoppable Tour,” sponsored by JCPenney with associate sponsor Hershey’s. The tour will begin with two shows in Uncasville, Conn., at the Mohegan Sun Arena with shows continuing through March 10. Darius Rucker will continue as opening act.
The first leg of the “Rascal Flatts American Living Unstoppable Tour” sold 550,000 tickets in 39 shows. This total also includes the two sold-out stadium concerts at Chicago’s Wrigley Field and Columbus, Ohio’s Crew Stadium. The band’s 2009 tours sold more than a million concert tickets, bringing their four-year total to just more than 4 million tickets sold, according to a news release.
Bandmates Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, who hails from Picher, are kicking off 2010 with a bang as they celebrate 10 years of making great music together, becoming one of the hottest touring acts and the top country group of the new millennium. The band has delivered 11 No. 1 singles to the top of the chart and have more titles in Billboard’s Top 100 Songs of the Decade than any other group in the format.
In 10 years, the band has sold more than 20 million albums and 25 million digital downloads, while all six of their studio albums made Billboard’s Top 100 Country Albums of the Decade listing. As the most awarded country group of the new millenium, Rascal Flatts has brought home nearly 40 trophies from the Academy of Country Music, American Music Awards, Country Music Association, People’s Choice Awards and more.
In concert, Rascal Flatts continues to be one of the hottest touring acts of the decade with more venue attendance records than any other country act. They have played 400 dates as a headline act, 700 total since 2000, with a ticket tally of nearly 6 million. Among these shows includes three consecutive sold-out performances at Madison Square Garden; the band also became the first and only country music act to sell out Wrigley Field.
The country trio has traveled to visit U.S. troops in Iraq on a United Service Organization Tour and partnered with the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee to raise more than $3 million in the past few years.
For more information on the band’s 10-year anniversary, go to www.rascalflatts10.com.
See a complete list of the group’s 2010 tour dates after the break. So far, it looks like the band won’t be coming to Oklahoma on this leg, having played a big show last June at Miami’s Buffalo Run Casino, just three miles from Rooney’s hometown of Picher.
Rascal Flatts’ 2010 tour dates
January 15 & 16 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
January 22 State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center
January 23 Charleston, WV Charleston Civic Center Coliseum
January 24 Toledo, OH Lucas County Arena
January 28 London, Ontario John Labatt Centre
January 29 Ottawa, Ontario Scotiabank Place
January 30 Hamilton. Ontario Copps Coliseum
February 4 Evansville, IN Roberts Stadium
February 5 Detroit, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
February 6 Dayton, OH Nutter Center
February 18 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center
February 19 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
February 20 Moline, IL i wireless center
February 25 Sioux City, IA Tyson Event Center
February 26 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
February 27 Green Bay, WI Resch Center
March 4 Huntsville, AL Von Braun Center
March 5 Columbus, GA Columbus Civic Center
March 6 Orange Beach, AL The Amphitheater at the Wharf
March 10 Houston, TX Reliant Stadium
-BAM
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