Legendary rock group set for Gville concert

Legendary rock band Jefferson Starship has announced plans for its 50th Anniversary Runaway Again Tour, and Gainesville is included.

Building on the momentum of its performances with The Marshall Tucker Band on the Live on Cloud 9 Tour and supporting Deep Purple on the European leg of their One More Time Tour, Jefferson Starship will embark on its own “national headline trek” featuring classics such as “Miracles,” “Jane,” “Find Your Way Back,” “White Rabbitt,” “Somebody to Love,” and more.

The Gainesville appearance is one of 18 stops on the tour and is set for March 6. Other stops on the itinerary include Seattle, Las Vegas, Ft Lauderdale, and N. Myrtle Beach.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.