Electric Hot Tuna

Tickets cost $35, $42, $47 and $89.99 (plus applicable service charges). Tickets are available in person at the KiMo Box Office and by phone from Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.

This concert is sponsored by Rick & Gail Thaler and OGB Architectural Millwork. Thanks as always for the ongoing support!

The first three rows of the theater include a copy of Jorma Kaukonen’s brand new book Been So Long: My Life and Music.
Bookworks will be on hand selling the books at the show too.

Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, perform with a well-honed and solid power—always in the groove from their years of experience and mutual inspiration. Started as a side project during Jefferson Airplane days, the constant, the very definition of Hot Tuna, has always been Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. The two boyhood pals have never wavered in one of the most enduring friendships in rock history.

From their days playing together as teenagers in the Washington, DC area, through years of inventive psychedelic rock in San Francisco (1996 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees), to their current acoustic and electric blues sound, no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years than Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, the founders and continuing core members of Hot Tuna. At the 2016 Grammys, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards.

"Jorma Kaukonen is a force in American music, equally adept at fingerpicked acoustic folk and blues as he is at wailing on an electric."
—Acoustic Guitar

Guitarist and vocalist Jorma Kaukonen is a highly respected interpreter of roots music, blues, Americana, and popular rock-and-roll. Jorma's repertoire goes far beyond psychedelic rock; he is a music legend and one of the finest singer-songwriters in music. Jorma tours the world bringing his unique styling to old blues while writing new songs of weight and dimension.

Justin Guip is a three-time Grammy Award winner, about whom Jorma and Jack said, "Justin Guip is a great drummer and percussionist. His Americana sensibilities are peerless! He's got the chops, the groove, and most importantly—the heart to be called a HOT TUNA drummer."

A master of improvisation for nearly four decades, Steve Kimock has been inspiring music fans with his transcendent guitar speak, voiced through electric, acoustic, lap and pedal steel guitars. While one can say that his genre is rock, no one niche has ever confined him. Instead, through the years, he's explored various sounds and styles based on what’s moved him at the time, whether it's blues or jazz; funk or folk; psychedelic or boogie; gypsy or prog-rock; traditional American or world fusion. Threaded through this expansive and highly nuanced musical landscape is Kimock's signature sound, the prodigious product of his ability to articulate crystal-clear tone, melody and emotion into intricately woven music crafted with technical brilliance. Once touted by Jerry Garcia as his "favorite unknown guitar player," Kimock has also performed as part of Bob Weir's Kingfish and RatDog, in addition to post-Grateful Dead ensembles including The Other Ones, Phil Lesh & Friends, and the Rhythm Devils featuring Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann.