The Marshall Tucker Band and Jefferson Starship are reuniting for a joint tour. The two bands are teaming up on the 2024 Live on Cloud 9 Tour that takes them across the Northwest in February and March on the first leg of the tour that kicks off on February 29 in El Cajon, California, and wraps up on March 10 in Airway Heights, Washington. More dates are expected to be announced. Tickets go on sale on October 20 at 9 a.m. local time.
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“We have a storied history with Jefferson Starship,” The Marshall Tucker Band frontman Doug Gray says in a press release. “We toured together many years ago and the timing feels right for us to reunite. We’re on Cloud 9! We will be announcing many more dates very soon.”
“We are really looking forward to touring with our buddies, The Marshall Tucker Band,” Jefferson Starship’s Donny Baldwin adds. “We toured back in the day, and it will be a great night of music from two iconic bands.”
Jefferson Starship is a spinoff of Jefferson Airplane, founded in 1974. In 1975, they released their most successful album, Red Octopus, which features one of their hit singles, “Miracles.” They’re also known for “We Built This City,” “With Your Love,” and “Count on Me.” The band has released 11 studio albums since 1974, their most recent being Mother of the Sun in 2020. Starship spent part of the summer of 2023 on Bret Michaels’ Parti-Gras Tour.
Like Jefferson Starship, The Marshall Tucker Band rose to fame in the 1970s with their self-titled debut album in 1973. They achieved their highest-charting song in 1977 with “Heard it in a Love Song” which peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band is named after a man named Marshall Tucker, a blind piano tuner in South Carolina who signed his name on one of the pianos in the studio where the band rehearsed. Tucker passed away in 2023 at the age of 99.
2024 Live on Cloud 9 Tour Dates:
Feb. 29 – El Cajon, CA – Sycuan Casino Resort
March 1 – Cabazon, CA – Morongo Casino Resort & Spa
March 2 – Primm, NV – Star of the Desert Arena
March 3 – Santa Barbara, CA – The Granada Theatre
March 5 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre
March 7 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live
March 8 – Sparks, NV – Nugget Casino Resort
March 9 – Toppenish, WA – Legends Casino Hotel Event Center
March 10 – Airway Heights, WA – Northern Quest Resort & Casino
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