Chase Rice Launching Back To College Tour In April

Chase Rice. Photo: Cody Cannon

Chase Rice got his start playing the college circuit, and he’ll revisit those roots with the Back to College Tour starting on April 14 at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida.

Other dates include: the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (where Rice attended college) on April 16; Gannon University and Edinboro University in Erie, Pennsylvania, on April 19; Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, on April 21; Southern Illinois University in Carbondale on April 23; East Georgia State College in Swainsboro on April 29; and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury on May 6.

The concert series is presented by Campus Event Networks, an online resource for college concert programmers.

Rice just released a new single, “Whisper,” from his upcoming second album on Columbia Nashville/Dack Janiels. The single will officially go for adds on Feb. 29, with a new album to follow in 2016. His hits include “Ready, Set, Roll” and “Gonna Wanna Tonight.” He is currently nominated for ACM Top New Male Vocalist.

“We wanted to take our time with this new album and I want to put the good, the bad and all the grit in between into these songs,” Rice says. “The fans in a lot of these cities have been there for me since day one, so I’m looking forward to playing them some new music live and bringing them along on the next step of our journey.”