JORMA & Friends

City Winery NYC Presents Jorma Kaukonen and Friends live in concert on April 9th 8pm

In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has  been one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots  music, blues, and rock. A member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a  Grammy recipient, Jorma was at the forefront of popular rock and roll, one  of the founders of the San Francisco sound and a progenitor of Psychedelic  Rock. He is a founding member of two legendary bands, Jefferson  Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna. Jorma Kaukonen is a music legend  and one of the finest singer-songwriters in his field. He continues to tour  the world bringing his unique styling to old blues tunes while presenting  new songs of weight and dimension. His secret is in playing spontaneous  and unfiltered music, with an individual expression of personality.

In 2016,  Jorma, Jack Casady and the other members of Jefferson Airplane were  awarded The GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award for their contributions  to American music.

In 2019 St. Martin’s Press published Jorma‘s autobiography, Been So  Long: My Life and Music, written to express his life both in and out of the  music world. As Kaukonen describes, “My story is my story. Having told bits  and pieces of it over my lifetime to a treasured few, it was time to tell all to a  bigger audience...From rehearsals and jams in small apartments and tiny  back rooms to Monterey, Woodstock, Altamont, the Rock And Roll Hall Of  Fame, the world of the Grammys and beyond… this is part of the road I live  on. This is my embryonic journey and much, much more!”