Recently, Darius Rucker said that Hootie & The Blowfish will have to wait, because he's all country right now.

And 'right now' includes a 2021 tour that will feature a stop in Minnesota this summer.

Darius Rucker has announced that he will bring an evening of his chart-topping country hits to Mystic Lake’s outdoor Mystic Amphitheater on Friday, June 18, 2021 at 8 pm in Prior Lake, Minnesota.

Tickets will start at $59 and go on sale this Friday morning (April 30) at 10 am HERE, or by calling 952-496-6563.

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Rucker's first two country albums “Learn to Live” and “Charleston, SC 1966” produced five No. 1 singles, including "Come Back Song," "This," "Alright," "It Won't Be Like This for Long," and "Don't Think I Don't Think About It." His fourth studio country album “Southern Style” featured his seventh No. 1 single, "Homegrown Honey.”

Darius Rucker’s hit 2020 single “Beers and Sunshine” was his tenth No. 1 single on country radio. His latest single “My Masterpiece” was released in March 2021.

Darius Rucker was originally scheduled to be part of the 2021 Winstock music festival this June, but after the event was pushed back to August due to COVID-19 concerns, Rucker's schedule did not allow him to be part of the new dates on August 20th & 21st.

Sam Hunt replaces Rucker in the rescheduled August Winstock dates along with Luke Combs.

Darius Rucker first attained multi-platinum status in the music industry as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Grammy Award-winning Hootie & The Blowfish. Since re-introducing himself to the world as a country artist, he has released four consecutive albums that topped the Billboard Country Albums chart and earned a new legion of fans. In 2014, Rucker won his third career Grammy Award for Best Solo Country Performance for his four-time platinum cover of Old Crow Medicine Show's "Wagon Wheel" off his album, “True Believers.”

There's so much hope that as the pandemic (hopefully) ebbs, we can all get out and enjoy a beer and some live country music together this year.

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