Hot Tuna originally scheduled for July 10, 2020 & rescheduled to July 9, 2021 - now postponed to November 26, 2021Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Thursday, March 4, 2021) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Hot Tuna - originally scheduled for July 10, 2020, and postponed until July 9, 2021, has been rescheduled to November 26, 2021. No exchanges are required - all tickets from July 10, 2020 or July 9, 2021, will be valid for November 26, 2021. For any questions or concerns, you can call the venue at (631) 673-7300 or visit paramountny.com. Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Tuesday, June 30, 2020) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Hot Tuna - originally scheduled for July 10, 2020, has been postponed until July 9, 2021. No exchanges are required - all tickets from July 10, 2020 will be valid for July 9, 2021. For any questions or concerns, you can call....
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Hot Tuna originally scheduled for July 10, 2020 & rescheduled to July 9, 2021 – now postponed to November 26, 2021
Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Thursday, March 4, 2021) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Hot Tuna – originally scheduled for July 10, 2020, and postponed until July 9, 2021, has been rescheduled to November 26, 2021. No exchanges are required – all tickets from July 10, 2020 or July 9, 2021, will be valid for November 26, 2021. For any questions or concerns, you can call the venue at (631) 673-7300 or visit paramountny.com.
Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Tuesday, June 30, 2020) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Hot Tuna – originally scheduled for July 10, 2020, has been postponed until July 9, 2021. No exchanges are required – all tickets from July 10, 2020 will be valid for July 9, 2021. For any questions or concerns, you can call the venue at (631) 673-7300 or visit paramountny.com.
(Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady) – A Living Legend – in American Music
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.
The two kids from 1950s Washington, D.C. knew that they
wanted to make music. Jorma Kaukonen, son of a State Department official, and
Jack Casady, whose father was a dentist, discovered guitar when they were
teenagers (Jack, four years younger, barely so). They played, and they took in
the vast panorama of music available in the nation’s capital, but found a
special love of the blues, country, and jazz played in small clubs.
Jorma went off to college, while Jack sat in with
professional bands and combos before he was even old enough to drive, first
playing lead guitar, then electric bass.
In the mid-1960s Jorma was invited to play in a rock‘n’roll
band that was forming in San Francisco; he knew just the guy to play bass and
summoned his old friend from back east. The striking signature guitar and bass
riffs in the now-legendary songs by the Jefferson Airplane were the result.
The half-decade foray into 1960s San Francisco rock music
was for Jack and Jorma an additional destination, not the final one. They
continued to play their acoustic blues on the side, sometimes performing a
mini-concert amid a Jefferson Airplane performance, sometimes finding a gig
afterwards in some local club. They were, as Jack says, “Scouting, always
scouting, for places where we could play.”
The duo did not go unnoticed and soon there was a record
contract and not long afterwards a tour. Thus began a career that would result
in more than two-dozen albums, thousands of concerts around the world, and
continued popularity.
Hot Tuna has gone through changes, certainly. A variety of
other instruments, from harmonica to fiddle to keyboards, have been part of the
band over the years, and continue to be, varying from project to project. The
constant, the very definition of Hot Tuna, has always been Jorma and Jack.
The two are not joined at the hip, though; through the years
both Jorma and Jack have undertaken projects with other musicians and solo
projects of their own. But Hot Tuna has never broken up, never ceased to exist,
nor have the two boyhood pals ever wavered in one of the most enduring
friendships in music.
Along the way, they have been joined by a succession of
talented musicians: Drummers, harmonica players, keyboardists, backup singers,
violinists and more, all fitting with Jorma and Jack’s current place in the
musical spectrum. Jorma and Jack certainly could not have imagined, let alone
predicted, where the playing would take them. It’s been a long and fascinating
road to numerous, exciting destinations. Two things have never changed: They
still love playing as much as they did as kids in Washington, D.C. and there
are still many, many exciting miles yet to travel on their musical odyssey.
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