Hot Tuna, an iconic American blues rock band, has been delivering a profound musical experience to audiences pushing six decades. With founding members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady at its helm, the band has constantly evolved, continually injecting fresh energy and improvisation into their sound.

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The Grand Presents Hot Tuna

The Grand Opera House

Blues & Classic Folk duo, Hot Tuna return to the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre for a night of acoustic hits! Hot Tuna is known for their hit songs like Hesitation Blues, Keep on Truckin' and Know Your Rider. 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. The name Hot Tuna invokes as many different moods and reactions as there are Hot Tuna fans — millions of them. To some, Hot Tuna is a reminder of some wild and happy times. To others, that name will forever be linked to their own discovery of the power and depth of American blues and roots music. To newer fans, Hot Tuna is a tight, masterful duo that is on the cutting edge of great music. All of those things are correct, and more. For more than four decades, Hot Tuna has played, toured, and recorded some of the best and most memorable acoustic and electric music ever. And Hot Tuna is still going strong — some would say stronger than ever.

Hot Tuna Acoustic

Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre

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. Hailed “A Psychedelic-Blues Institution” by Rolling Stone Magazine,  no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years than founding core members Kaukonen and Casady, who were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 2016 Grammys.

Hot Tuna Electric

The Parker

The name Hot Tuna invokes as many different moods and reactions as there are Hot Tuna fans — millions of them. To some, Hot Tuna is a reminder of some wild and happy times. To others, that name will forever be linked to their own discovery of the power and depth of American blues and roots music. To newer fans, Hot Tuna is a tight, masterful duo that is on the cutting edge of great music.

Hot Tuna

The Flynn

How do you sustain a career in music for over 50 years? More than half a century ago guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady started playing the kind of music they really wanted to, wherever it took them creatively, and unlocked the secret to Hot Tuna’s timeless success.

In the 1960s, Kaukonen and Casady were founding members of Jefferson Airplane, one of the biggest rock bands in the world at the time, when they started performing together as Hot Tuna. “It was a different kind of music that didn’t really fit into the landscape of Jefferson Airplane, but we really liked it,”

The band released a debut record in 1970, a live album which captured the spark of what became their trademark — a willingness to do it differently every time.

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