Lady Antebellum was devastated to have to cancel their Ocean 2020 Tour, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Still, while the trio was heartbroken to have to call of the tour, which was to include Jake Owen and Maddie & Tae, they are enjoying an unprecedented amount of time at home with their families.
“I think if there’s any silver lining in this, it definitely puts into perspective what life really is all about, and what really matters. First and foremost, that’s family,” Charles Kelley said, as part of a clip CMT shared from their upcoming Celebrate Our Heroes TV special. “Also I think it makes us realize how much we need companionship, and we need friendship. I miss just going out to dinner with friends, and catching up that way. So I think if anything else, hopefully it makes us just appreciate people we have in our lives more.
“The situation has taught me to savor time with my little girls and my husband,” continued Hillary Scott.
“It’s just a very small things, a puzzle, or doing Legos with my son, playing dress-up with my daughter, just having fun and being present with them,” Dave Haywood added. “The small moments are the ones I’m really taking away from this quarantine.”
Lady Antebellum has been together for 13 years, and their bond is still as strong as ever –- a rare feat for a musical group.
“I think the foundation is we just really respect what we’ve built and who we’ve built it with, and that what we have is so much more than the sum of its parts as a band,” Hillary shared with their record label. “And I think there are just seasons of life, like when you go through hard times, no matter if it’s personal, career, or whatever, where the people around you just have to hope for you cause you have a hard time finding it yourself. I think there were some definite moments of that, of like other people looking and saying, ‘This is special. Remember this. Think about all of the different things.’
“And that’s just good to do in life in general, when you’re just in a time of just struggling to understand why things happen,” she continued. “It’s so beautiful how our community and our team and our friends and family just rallied around us through that and hoped for us.”