MUSIC

If any act embodies the place to which country music has evolved in the new century, it is Rascal Flatts. Since their inception a decade ago in 1999, the trio has helped change the face of popular music. Their trademark sound - Gary LeVox's powerfully emotive lead vocals coupled with the soaring harmonies of Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, set amid world-class arrangements and production - have made the band the standard bearers for cutting-edge country.

Drawing on Nashville's best tunesmiths and their own enviable singwriting skills, they have released, in songs like These Days, Bless The Broken Road, What Hurts The Most and Take Me There, some of the most important and successful music to come out of Nashville in recent years. Along the way, they have placed ten #1 singles and twenty Top Tens, seen every one of their studio albums go multi-platinum, with total sales approaching nineteen million, been the ACM and CMA top vocal group every year since 2003, and won multiple American Music Awards and People's Choice Awards.

Darius Rucker, longtime lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, is the supporting act.