Hot Tuna

Presented by the Camden County Board of Commissioners in association with BRE and the Borough of Collingswood, Hot Tuna An Evening with Hot Tuna Acoustic with special guest Ross Garren to the Scottish Rite Auditorium on August 7th, 2026. Doors open at 7 PM, show starts at 8 PM. Tickets go on sale March 13 at 10 AM and are available at Etix and at the Scottish Rite Box Office in person or by phone at 856-858-1000. Presale: Wed, March 11 (10am) – Thu, March 12 (10pm) Code: TRUCKIN Tickets are $39.50 to $75.50 Tickets available from: www.etix.com About the Band: How do you sustain a career in music for over 50 years? More than half a century ago guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady started playing the kind of music they really wanted to, wherever it took them creatively, and unlocked the secret to Hot Tuna’s timeless success. In the 1960s, Kaukonen and Casady were founding members of Jefferson Airplane, one of the biggest rock bands in the world at the time, when they started performing together as Hot Tuna. “It was a different kind of music that didn’t really fit into the landscape of Jefferson Airplane, but we really liked it,” The band released a debut record in 1970, a live album which captured the spark of what became their trademark — a willingness to do it differently every time. “We each brought what we had to the table, and we learned to read each other really well,” Kaukonen has said. “We didn’t plan anything, it was just fun to do.” Fans loved their songs like “Keep on Truckin,” a “bluesy feel-good jam with deep American roots and laid-back energy from the golden age of jam rock.” And the live shows became legendary, with long improvisations, and sets that could go up to six hours of extended versions of songs. A revolving door of touring musicians and studio musicians sometimes joined them on stage, and sometimes it was just the two of them as a duo. But Hot Tuna took off, surpassing Jefferson Airplane which later splintered off…