Thomas Rhett will be headlining Day One of Stagecoach 2020, an event which typically sees temperatures soar into triple digits. Fortunately, it sounds like Thomas has been practicing for such weather during his "Very Hot Summer Tour" this year.
"This year has been a huge learning curve for us, because we've headlined arenas in the past, but never have I headlined any of these big amphitheaters that I've played for so long, opening for people like Jason [Aldean] and Luke [Bryan] and FGL [Florida Georgia Line]," he explains in a statement from his label. "And when you play indoors, you kind of get used to being able to control things. The weather, for one. It's always dark, you can control the temperature, you control the lights.
"But when you go outside, like this whole summer, I mean, this tour was called the Very Hot Summer Tour, and it was very self-explanatory. Everywhere we went, like Hershey, Pennsylvania, we fried an egg on the thrust that day because it was like 110 degrees. So just kind of dealing with different weather environments and then learning how to entertain a crowd outside is a whole different aspect of learning how to entertain a crowd indoors in an arena.
"But I grew to love playing amphitheaters and hope to do a lot more of 'em in the future. And it's been so fun to be able to bring my friends on tour with me, and I think for the future I just wanna bring people that I love being around, first and foremost, and if they have a great show, that's the cherry on top."
Dustin Lynch was one artist on tour with Thomas over the summer, and he's also set to perform at Stagecoach the same day as the "Die a Happy Man" singer.
