Jack Casady and Hot Tuna Celebrate 50 years of Music

Hot Tuna finishes off 2019 with an acoustic duo tour framed by electric holiday shows as a solid power trio

Jack Casady and Hot Tuna Celebrate 50 years of Music

Hot Tuna finishes off 2019 with an acoustic duo tour framed by electric holiday shows as a solid power trio

“Itโ€™s unfathomable how Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady make each show its own experience, but they do … and effortlessly! Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady are without question among the greatest musicians; each has distinguished himself by developing a style that is easy to pick out and that others often try to imitate.

But more importantly, Kaukonen, 78, and Casady, 75, have over time forged a partnership thatโ€™s as vital to their art as raw talent is. The duo use music to speak a language they seemingly invented, yet cannily allow the rest of us in on the exhilarating dialogues.” โ€“ ArtFuse

Hot Tuna shares the stage with the legendary blues artist, David Bromberg. Brombergโ€™s guitar work remains a marvel; amped electric lead โ€“ both slide and fretted โ€“ and delicately powerful acoustic fingerpicking propels songs with the same force that made him the go-to guy for acts ranging from the Eagles to Link Wray to Phoebe Snow. This is a man who can go full-on Chicago gutbucket with โ€œYou Donโ€™t Have to Goโ€ (a Bromberg original), then slay with the jazz inflections of Ray Charlesโ€™ โ€œA Fool for You,โ€ rendered here intimately solo. Although Bromberg points out heโ€™s not the same guitarist he was before his two decades away from performing and recording. โ€œI play differently,โ€ he says. โ€œI canโ€™t play as fast, but playing slower gives me more time to think about what Iโ€™m doing.โ€

His incredible journey spans five-and-a-half decades, and includes โ€“ but is not limited to โ€“ adventures with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, and music and life lessons from seminal blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis, who claimed the young Bromberg as a son. A musicianโ€™s musician, Brombergโ€™s mastery of several stringed instruments (guitar, fiddle, Dobro, mandolin), and multiple styles is legendary, leading Dr. John to declare him an American icon. In producing John Hartfordโ€™s hugely influential Aereo-Plain LP, Bromberg even co-invented a genre: Newgrass.

David will be joined on stage with his long-running road-and-studio band of cohorts: Butch Amiot (bass), Josh Kanusky (drums), Mark Cosgrove (guitar), Nate Grower (fiddle), and Peter Ecklund (cornet).

Nov 29/30 The Town Hall, New York, NY Electric Hot Tuna w/ Steve Kimock

Dec 02 Musikfest Cafe At ArtsQuest Center, Bethlehem, PA Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 03 Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 05 Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Poughkeepsie, NY. Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 06 The Colonial Theatre, Keene, NH Acoustic Hot Tuna 50th Anniversary also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 07 Garde Arts Center, New London, CT Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 09 Asbury Hall, Buffalo, NY Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 10 The Palace Theatre, Greensburg, PA Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 11 Kent Stage, Kent, OH Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 13 Park West, Chicago Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 14 Fitzgerald, St. Paul, MN Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 15 Turner Hall Balroom, Milwaukee, WI. Acoustic Hot Tuna also Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams

Dec 28 Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, Clearwater, FL Acoustic Hot Tuna

Dec 31 Parker Playhouse, Fort Lauderdale, FL Electric Hot Tuna

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