The Osborne brothers have never hidden their support for political causes or even candidates. The country music duo has been active in supporting gun control reform and LGBTQ rights, and headlined a fundraiser for Tennessee’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2018.

But on Thursday, they will make perhaps their highest-profile political appearance when they perform at a Kamala Harris campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, a crucial swing state in the upcoming presidential election. “We’ve heard ‘shut up and sing’ for years, so we’re taking that good advice and lending our singing voices in support of Kamala Harris this Thursday in Greensboro, North Carolina,” says TJ Osborne Rolling Stone.

The Democratic presidential candidate will be in attendance and will give a speech as part of her New Way Forward Tour, which begins on Thursday and continues through the swing states of the USA until Sunday. While Harris is in Greensboro on Thursday, her running mate Tim Walz will be campaigning in Michigan.

Brothers Osborne, consisting of singer TJ and his brother, guitarist John Osborne, released their latest album last year, a personally and creatively liberating project shaped by TJ’s decision to come out as gay and John’s mental health struggles. “A lot of things that came to light allowed us to feel more creatively open about who we are. We took that feeling into the studio and it gave us a new sense of freedom,” John said. RS back then. “It wasn’t necessarily that we weren’t who we were before, but we weren’t quite who we were anymore. And now we could just feel like we had no limits.”

The Brothers Osborne, who received a CMA Award nomination for Vocal Duo of the Year when the nominations were announced Monday, have always subtly challenged country fans with their music and videos. Their Grammy-winning song “Younger Me” gave a voice to those who grew up different from the norm, and back in 2017 they poked fun at Donald Trump and his border wall in their video “Ain’t My Fault.” Last summer they performed for President Biden at the White House Fourth of July concert.

TJ firmly believes that the duo’s activism is more humanitarian than political. “I don’t see it as a political statement. For me it’s just about right and wrong,” he said RS last year. “We grew up in a very small town and we were taught that if we saw something was wrong, we would speak up.”