Reunited country trio Rascal Flatts will return to the road next year, with a Jan. 23 stop planned at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center, a venue they last played in 2011.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Chris Lane and Lauren Alaina will open.
Second cousins Gary LeVox and Jay DeMarcus were pursuing fame in Nashville in 1999 when they met guitarist Joe Don Rooney, who was leading Chely Wright’s band at the time. The trio hit it off and formed Rascal Flatts. They signed a record deal at the end of that year and had their debut single “Prayin’ for Daylight” at radio stations in February 2000.
The single was an instant hit and, for the next decade, Rascal Flatts landed 22 singles in the Top 10, including “Bless This Broken Road,” “Fast Cars and Freedom,” “What Hurts the Most” and “My Wish.” That said, their biggest selling single to date — a cover of Canadian musician Tom Cochrane’s “Life Is a Highway” — only made it to No. 18 on the country charts.
They continued to score radio hits in the ’10s, but by the end of the decade they announced they were embarking on a farewell tour in 2020. It was postponed due to the pandemic and never happened. In late 2021, LeVox quietly announced the band had broken up.
But in late 2024, the trio revealed they had reunited. After performing together for the first time in nearly five years at Donald Trump’s Commander in Chief Ball, they hit the road for a sold out tour celebrating the band’s 25th anniversary.
Starting Sept. 3, Xcel Energy Center will be named Grand Casino Arena. Minnesota Sports & Entertainment and Grand Casino announced a 14-year naming rights partnership on June 17.
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