{"id":296796,"date":"2026-06-05T05:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:04:07","slug":"florida-georgia-line-reunite-with-surprise-appearance-at-cma-fest-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296796\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Georgia Line Reunite With Surprise Appearance at CMA Fest 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley split in 2022. They signaled the return of FGL Thursday night with an appearance at Nissan Stadium in Nashville<\/p>\n

\n\tFirst, Oasis<\/a>. Then \u2026 Florida Georgia Line<\/a>? Finally, country\u2019s bro-riginators are back. The duo of Brian Kelley<\/a> and Tyler Hubbard<\/a> made a surprise appearance at Nissan Stadium on Thursday evening during the first night of CMA Fest in Nashville.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter being introduced, the pair made their way separately through the audience while singing the feel-good 2013 track \u201cRound Here.\u201d High-fiving with fans on the way, the pair reunited on stage as the crowd cheered and sang along.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelley and Hubbard had been teasing a reunion all week. They updated their social accounts for the first time in years with a new profile pic (\u201cFGL LFG\u201d), followed by a billboard in downtown Nashville that included a mysterious phone number. The message that arrives when you text? \u201cTurns out, some things are just better together. Much more to come. FGL LFG.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe members of Florida Georgia Line have been pursuing solo careers since 2022, when they announced an \u201cindefinite hiatus<\/a>.\u201d Fans surmised that the break was due to a political rift between the duo \u2014 with Kelley on the right, and Hubbard on the left \u2014 though they never explicitly confirmed the reason, other than claiming they wanted to work on their own projects. Is their reunion a sign that America is healing its political divide and moving to an era where people from all sides of the aisle can exist \u2014 and bro down \u2014\u00a0in peace?<\/p>\n

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\n\tRegardless, there\u2019s no denying the impact that Florida Georgia Line had on country music. In their heyday, the massive success of \u201cCruise\u201d ushered in a new era for the genre, both in crossover success (the song spent nearly 30 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100) and in helping to open up artists and listeners alike to sonic possibilities far beyond traditional sounds. Their collaboration with Bebe Rexha, \u201cMeant to Be,\u201d was even bigger and still holds the record for longest-running single on the Hot Country chart, and spent 50 weeks on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\n\tLove them or hate them, the massive popularity that country music is now experiencing owes a debt of gratitude to the omnipresence of FGL. Whether they\u2019re back to collect their flowers or offer a lesson or two in post-partisan friendship, we\u2019ll just have to stay tuned. And, presumably, roll our windows down and cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley split in 2022. They signaled the return of FGL Thursday night with an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92219,28,48687,30,29,5194],"class_list":["post-296796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brian-kelley","tag-florida","tag-florida-georgia-line","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-tyler-hubbard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}