The Zac Brown Band is out on their Black Out the Sun Tour this summer, celebrating summer and their latest single, “Castaway,” and with five kids, it’s hard for Zac to leave home sometimes, but the good thing is that he’s able to bring his family with him on the road. Zac explains, “Family comes out whenever we know it’s gonna be steady on a run that’s continuous. You know if I’m chartering in and out and flying home at four in the morning or three in the morning after I play and then drive to the airport, that doesn’t make sense. But where we can bus and go there then we’ll bring the family out and get to spend time with them during the day.”
Something else that makes bringing the family out on the road a lot of fun is the fact that Zac’s four daughters are home-schooled (his son is not in school yet), and so he says, “Part of what we’re doing this year and when we go to the, you know, to the north east is kinda doing an American History tour and so some of their history that they’re gonna be learning is right there on the sites of where it actually happened.”
Zac Brown Band just played two shows at Boston’s Fenway Park, and they’ve got several more shows scheduled in the north east through Labor Day, so it’s a perfect chance for the Brown family to get their road education.
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(Zac Brown) “Family comes out whenever you know we know it’s gonna be steady on a run that’s continuous. You know if I’m chartering in and out and flying home at four in the morning or three in the morning after I play and then drive to the airport, that doesn’t make sense. But where we can bus and go there then we’ll bring the family out and get to spend time with them during the day. We home school our girls and part of what we’re doing this year and when we go to the you know to the north east is kinda doing an American History tour and so some of their history that they’re gonna be learning is right there on the sites of where it actually happened.”
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