It’s festival concert season, which Thomas Rhett loves for a lot of reasons, including the chance to share his music with new fans. “There’s a wide variety of people, people that know who you are, people that have heard of you, but never seen you live,” says Thomas. “And it’s a place where a bunch of new artists can actually get a name for themselves.”
Thomas started playing the summer festival circuit five or six years ago and one thing that’s been fun for him is progressing up the ranks from baby act to headliner. Thomas says, “For people like me who have been playing festivals for five or six years, it’s just one of those places that it’s kind of like you keep moving up in the ranks. Like you go on at 4:00, next year you go on at 5:00, next year you go on at 6:00, and now here we are playing at 9:15. And it’s just really cool to have seen what a year can do for your career, and these festivals are what most country fans look forward to every year. It’s like finally summertime, finally good weather and three or four straight days of just people that they can’t wait to see.”
In addition to playing some festivals this summer, Thomas is opening for Kenny Chesney on all the stadium dates of his Trip Around the Sun Tour, then he will resume his own Life Changes Tour in the fall.
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“There’s a wide variety of people, people that know who you are, people that have heard of you, but never seen you live. And it’s a place where a bunch of new artists can actually get a name for themselves. And for people like me who have been playing festivals for five or six years, it’s just one of those places that it’s kind of like you keep moving up in the ranks. Like you go on at 4:00, next year you go on at 5:00, next year you go on at 6:00, and now here we are playing at 9:15. And it’s just really cool to have seen what a year can do for your career, and these festivals are what most country fans look forward to every year. It’s like finally summertime, finally good weather and three or four straight days of just people that they can’t wait to see.”