Rascal Flatts are back together! The trio, made up of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, announce they are reuniting to embark on their Life Is A Highway Tour in 2025, celebrating 25 years since the group began. Lauren Alaina and Chris Lane will serve as the opening acts.
The Life Is A Highway Tour was originally supposed to be their farewell tour, so the three members could pursue other projects. Those plans were derailed due to the pandemic, which makes Rascal Flatts even more eager to return to the road, together.
“In 2020, we announced the farewell tour after being on the road extensively for 20 years,” the group says in a statement. “To put it simply, we needed a break. Then COVID hit and our plans came to a screeching halt, like the rest of the world. Since then, we’ve been able to revisit our unique and special experience as a band and we’re ready to get out on the road again. It’s hard to believe that next year will be the 25th anniversary of Rascal Flatts, and that felt like the perfect time to get back in front of the fans who have given us so much.”
The original Life Is A Highway Tour was never rescheduled, although DeMarcus said he was still hopeful that he, LeVox and Rooney would someday make music together again.
“Everybody’s wanting to know, again, we know you’re making records and playing with Generation Radio, but would you ever come back and do a Rascal Flatts tour if one were to happen?” DeMarcus said in 2023. “The answer is, in a perfect world, they both exist together. I’ve never picked one over the other.
“I love doing both. Rascal Flatts is my baby with Joe Don and Gary,” he adds. “We’ve built that from the ground up. It’ll always be a part of who I am and I live it. I breathe it.”
At least one of the members, namely Rooney, will be hitting the road a much different person than he was the last time the three men toured together. The 49-year-old just celebrated three years of sobriety, The decision to get sober came after Rooney was in a car accident in 2021, which resulted in him being charged with driving under the influence, after he crashed into a tree. Rooney was sentenced to a year in jail, with all but two days of his sentence suspended.
Rooney is now profoundly grateful that the accident happened, and gave him a wake-up call he desperately needed.
“Fortunately, (and I truly believe this,) God led me into that tree safely enough to not kill me – and luckily nobody else was involved and I didn’t injure or kill anyone,” Rooney said at the time. “I could literally be in a Federal Prison for life right now. That is the reality of what my life had become. That event led me to treatment for my alcoholism for four months in the beautiful mountains of Utah.”
“With the help of my family and so many other professional clinical advisors and now numerous new sober forever friends, I’ve been able to get the train back on the tracks and live without the burden of alcohol,” he added. “Now, I need to protect my family and protect my sobriety. I have new healthy boundaries for the first time in my life. Only positive, loving, caring and understanding people may enter.”
See a list of dates for the Life Is A Highway Tour below. Tickets will be available beginning on Friday, October 4, at 10:00 AM local time. Find more information at RascalFlatts.com.
Life Is A Highway Tour Dates:
2/13 Evansville, IN- Ford Center
2/14 Charleston, WV- Charleston Coliseum
2/15 Grand Rapids, MI- Van Andel Arena
2/22 Durant, OK- Choctaw Grand Theater
2/27 Sioux Falls, SD- Denny Sanford Premier Center
2/28 Green Bay, WI- Resch Center
3/1 Moline, IL- Vibrant Arena
3/6 Columbus, OH- Nationwide Arena
3/7 Toledo, OH- Huntington Center
3/8 Youngstown, OH- Covelli Centre
3/13 Manchester, NH- SNHU Arena
3/14 Uncasville, CT- Mohegan Sun Arena
3/15 Allentown, PA- PPL Center
3/20 Huntsville, AL- Von Braun Center Propst Arena*
3/22 Savannah, GA- Enmarket Arena
3/27 Ft. Worth, TX- Dickies Arena
3/28 Lafayette, LA- CAJUNDOME
3/29 Little Rock, AR- Simmons Bank Arena
4/3 Estero, FL- Hertz Arena
4/4 Orlando, FL- Kia Center
4/5 Jacksonville, FL- Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena
* Tickets will be on sale starting Oct. 11 at 10 am local time