Tuna Sare

Jorma Kaukonen is joined by Jack Casady for this live acoustic show, recorded at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, in Greenwood Village, Colorado, on July 29th, 2022.

Hot Tuna is an American blues band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady. Although it has always been a fluid aggregation, with musicians coming and going over the years, the band’s name has essentially become a metonym for Kaukonen and Casady’s ongoing collaboration. Stage appearances were initially integrated within the Airplane’s performances on the same bill. During one of the Airplane’s rest periods, the duo began to appear in their own right, often as a rock trio with the then Airplane drummer, Joey Covington. Having had the name Hot Shit rejected (Kaukonen has since refuted this), they settled on Hot Tuna and released a self-titled debut as a duo, with a guest appearance from harmonica player Will Scarlett. The set was drawn largely from traditional blues/ragtime material by Jelly Roll Morton and the Rev. Gary Davis, with Casady’s booming and meandering bass lines interplaying superbly with Kaukonen’s fluid acoustic guitar.

Having passed through ice —the COVID winter of the past two years — Little Feat is ready to bring some fire with their heralded Waiting for Columbus tour of March-April 2022. Little Feat is set to perform at DAR Constitution Hall on Saturday, April 16th, and bringing none other than Hot Tuna along with them - Happy Feat, indeed.

Hot Tuna is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist/vocals) and Jack Casady (bassist).

Fishing is a hard life, and harder with bluefin stocks depleted. In Gloucester, Massachusetts, there’s a special breed of fishermen. For generations they’ve used rod and reel to catch the elusive bluefin tuna. They depend on these fish for their livelihood, and the competition is brutal.

Sandy Amphitheater was the perfect setting for a concert on Monday, August 1st.