Home Free is heading overseas! The five-man group announces they will embark on a European tour this fall, kicking off on September 13 in Berlin, Germany. Home Free will perform 15 dates in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, before wrapping up with three shows in England.
“We’re taking our talents to Europe this summer to continue our Road Sweet Road tour abroad!” Home Free announces on social media. “Our last Euro trip got cut short by something called COVID. You may have heard of it. But we are BEYOND THRILLED to return and finish what we started!!”
🚨 HUGE NEWS ALERT 🚨
We're taking our talents to Europe this summer to continue our Road Sweet Road tour abroad! Our last Euro trip got cut short by something called COVID. You may have heart of it. But we are BEYOND THRILLED to return and finish what we started!!
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— Home Free (@HomeFreeGuys) May 15, 2023
Home Free first announced the news to their Patreon community, recalling how disappointing it was to have to cancel their 2020 European Tour short because of the pandemic.
“It was a huge bummer at the time to have to skip on out of town, and it was actually quite difficult and uncertain with the potential looming border closures, but that’s a story for another time,” Home Free recounts. “The story today is that we’re finally coming back!”
Home Free still remembers how disappointed they were when they had to cancel the remainder of the European tour, and how challenging it was to suddenly get home before flights were shut down.
“It was like whiplash,” Tim Foust previously told Everything Nash. “We were literally in the middle of a European tour and we had to cut it short. We had stayed up till 2:00 AM, Europe time, to see the Presidential address. He said we were going to be banning flights from Europe. So the first thing we did was get on the phone and say, ‘Delta, get us home ASAP.’
“It was very jarring in a 24-hour period to go from being in the middle of a tour on the other side of the world, to being on our couches in our homes, not really knowing if we could or should even leave our houses,” he continued. “It was one of the more jarring experiences I’ve ever had.”
Once Home Free realized that their tour was over, at least for the foreseeable future, the following hours were a whirlwind of doing everything they could to get home as quickly as they could.
“We were up at 2:00 AM. Nobody went to bed,” Austin Brown remembered. “We saw the address. I was at the airport with two of my bandmates at 4:00 AM and on a flight at 6:00. We just up and left from Munich to home in an instant. We got home and it was one of those things that, for a second, it was kind of a nice break. It was like, ‘Oh, this is kind of interesting.’ And then it was like, ‘Wait, are we going to get to go back on tour?’”
Home Free has plenty of dates on the calendar for the next few months, including a performance at CMA Fest. See a list of their European tour dates below. Find all of their music and a list of their upcoming shows at HomeFreeMusic.com.
Road Sweet Road Sweet Road European tour dates:
13 Sep | Berlin, Germany – Columbia Theater
15 Sep | Copenhagen, Denmark – Dr Koncerthuset
16 Sep | Gothenburg, Sweden – Gothenburg Concerthouse
17 Sep | Oslo, Norway – Oslo Spektrum
18 Sep | Stockholm, Sweden – Cirkus Arena
19 Sep | Malmö, Sweden – Slagthuset Teater
20 Sep | Hamburg, Germany – Fabrik
22 Sep | Vienna, Austria – Arena
23 Sep | Munich, Germany – Muffathalle
24 Sep | Zurich, Switzerland – Volkhaus
26 Sep | Cologne, Germany – Kantine
27 Sep | Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg – Ronda
29 Sep | Birmingham, England – 02 Academy
30 Sep | Manchester, England – RNCM Theatre
1 Oct | London, England – 02 Forum Kentish Town