Jefferson Starship News

Published: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 4:40 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. The top-selling, '80s pop-rock band Starship is scheduled to land at Silver Springs, thus filling the park's "Mystery Band" slot.

Today , guitarist Craig Chaquico is celebrating his 55th birthday. Chaquico was born in Sacramento, California.

Jefferson Starship is just one of the groups poised to rock a benefit concert as part of the 20th annual National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Day at 8 p.m. Saturday at the RiverCenter for Performing Arts in Baton Rouge.

A day packed with music and celebration, in honor of National Alcohol and Addiction Recovery Day, will take place Saturday, Sept.

Event: "West Fest" Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock. Attraction: 72 acts, 4 stages, 2 domes and 26 poster artists.

In honor of the 20th Anniversary of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Awareness Month, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has partnered with Isis Media and others to create a day-long celebration September 26, 2009, at the Louisiana State Museum grounds located at 600 N. Fourth Street, Baton Rouge, within eyeshot of the Louisiana ...

The Alaska State Fair has hosted lots of well-known performers -- some long after their glory days and a smaller number before they became stars .

They just finished "Somebody to Love" to a rousing applause. The band includes founding member of Jefferson Airplane Paul Kantner, who played Woodstock in 1969.

Starship was a band created by the settlement of a lawsuit. Notwithstanding this curious beginning, the group went on to a series of hits in the mid-'80s, including the chart-toppers "We Built This City," "Sara," and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" in a polished, mainstream pop/rock style before splitting up in the early '90s. Starship was the ...

Get information on the Museum at Bethel Woods and the Woodstock concert at, www.bethelwoodscenter.org or 866-781-2922. It's 90 minutes from New York City.

Get information on the Museum at Bethel Woods and the Woodstock concert at, www.bethelwoodscenter.org or 866-781-2922. It's 90 minutes from New York City.

In the 40 years since Woodstock, those involved in organizing and playing the festival have often continued to protest, inspire and entertain.

Get information on the Museum at Bethel Woods and the Woodstock concert at, www.bethelwoodscenter.org or 866-781-2922. It's 90 minutes from New York City.

Put on something tie-dyed and groove to the now-classic tunes that emanated from Yasgur's Farm 40 years ago.

Story was first posted at 1:46 a.m. Friday, July 31, 2009. THREE OAKS - The band's name said Jefferson Starship, but the set list belonged to Jefferson Airplane on Thursday night at the Acorn Theater.

They built this city. That was the consensus Tuesday night at Artpark, where the latest version of Starship, nee Jefferson Airplane/ Jefferson Starship, took off with a mix of the radio standards that gave the band its first commercial success in the 1980s.

"It was bigger than we could have imagined. The Woodstock festival was the capstone of a social event that had been going on for the prior three years," said Tom Constanten, a member of The Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1971.

Starship was a band created by the settlement of a lawsuit. Notwithstanding this curious beginning, the group went on to a series of hits in the mid-'80s, including the chart-toppers "We Built This City," "Sara," and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" in a polished, mainstream pop/rock style before splitting up in the early '90s. Starship was the ...

Elvis Presley helped transform Las Vegas, beginning in July 1969, by showing that entertainment could turn a profit for hotels.

The crowd in 1969. Woodstock will be remembered by many, but it can't be fully recaptured.