Founding member of Jefferson Airplane. Co-founder of Hot Tuna. Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
Jorma Kaukonen learned fingerstyle guitar directly from the Reverend Gary Davis - the same teacher whose influence reached Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, and Ry Cooder, and whose songs became part of the Grateful Dead's repertoire. That lineage shaped one of the most distinctive guitar voices in American music.
For the last 25 years, serious players have traveled to Ohio just to sit in the same room as him at Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp. On September 29, that room is here.
Jorma Kaukonen is at The Center for the Arts on Tuesday, September 29.
