Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett, and a Thousand Horses

Friday, May 6, 2016 7:30 PM
Friday, May 6, 2016 10:30 PM

Following a monumental run that sold over two million tickets and hosted capacity crowds at the nation’s biggest stadiums, amphitheaters and arenas, RIAA’s top digital country male artist of all time Jason Aldean will bring his WE WERE HERE 2016 TOUR to the Lehigh Valley at PPL Center on Friday, May 6. Special guests Thomas Rhett and A Thousand Horses will join Jason Aldean for the stop in Allentown.

The CMA nominee simultaneously released the official music video for his Top 15 single from which the new tour drew its name. Directed by Shaun Silva, the spirited video for “Gonna Know You Were Here” takes Aldean back to his stomping grounds in Macon, GA.

PLATINUM-selling Thomas Rhett leads the pack as one of country music’s elite new artists with four consecutive No. one hits leading into his new single “Die A Happy Man” off his recently released sophomore album, TANGLED UP. Rolling Stone notes "he's discovered the artist he was always meant to be,” as the new music follows his debut album IT GOES LIKE THIS (The Valory Music Co.), which spawned three chart-toppers hits, making him Billboard’s first male country artist to do so from a debut album in over two decades. Initially garnering attention as a gifted songwriter with credits including hits by Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean and Lee Brice, it is his “high-energy all the way” (El Paso Times) live show that has “the audience dancing all the way up in the rafters of the stadium” (Billboard) that continues to catch the attention of critics out on the road.

A Thousand Horses is a fresh fusion of classic sounds – a hybrid of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, Black Crowes and Exile on Main Street-era Rolling Stones - wrapped up in a modern-country context. Their first single “Smoke" went to No. one after making Country Aircheck history as the highest debut for a new artist’s first single and becoming the first band to send a debut single to No. one on Billboard Country Airplay Chart this decade. The band initially gained momentum playing clubs across the South with Rolling Stone Country hailing the foursome as the Best Up-and-Comer at 2014’s Austin City Limits, and USA Today named them one of 2015’s Artists to Watch and an On the Verge Artist. Their first album on the Big Machine Label Group, Southernality, is now available on iTunes and the second single from the album, “(This Ain’t No) Drunk Dial" is currently making its way up the Country charts.