A blog by Jorma Kaukonen

Now That’s A Sunday!

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Foto by Selfie

Would it rain? Wouldn’t it rain? Hard to say. The chances were in our favor according to the weather… but the sky looked debatable. Heck with it. Let’s ride. Vanessa’s new bike has been waiting patiently for her since she bought it towards the end of last year.

Izze suited up, got her helmet on and climbed up on the old man’s bike.

What started out as a little get acquainted ride wound up with over fifty miles ...
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The Ongoing Aftermath Of Life

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This past Sunday, Memorial Day Weekend, my friend’s sister Dawn Marie Mingus-Reynolds was enjoying the day with family and friends. She went for a motorcycle ride as we all love to do down here in Southeast Ohio… and something terrible happened. There was an accident that no one has yet been able to explain and Dawn was killed. Vanessa and Izze and I went to her memorial yesterday in the little church in The Plains, Ohio and paid our ...
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Honor Memorial Day

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Nuff Said!

A Remembrance And A Benefit For Marjorie Thompson’s Causes

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Saturday, June 6
Notre Dame Hall, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 529 60th Street, Brooklyn, NY
6:30 p.m. doors / 8:00 p.m. show
Marjorie Thompson leaves legacy of kindness and accomplishment. Join Jorma Kaukonen and Michael Falzarano as they perform under the moniker, Kaukarano with multi-instrumentalist Barry Mitterhoff in tribute to Marjorie. Proceeds from this benefit concert will be donated to two worthy cold cap organizations: The Rapunzel Project and Cold Caps Assistance Projects.

Take note folks… our dear friend Marjorie Thompson has ...
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From Dear Jerry Onward!

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So I was blessed and honored to be asked to be a part of the Dear Jerry celebration at Merriweather Post in Columbia, Maryland. Myron and I got in late-ish on Tuesday for the rehearsal on Wednesday and the gig on Thursday.

The first person I saw was my old buddy Sam Bush. What a treat! Then the hits just kept on coming.

Buddy Miller! Cool beans. I’ve been a fan of his for years. To get to play with him ...
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Steve Kimock, Woody Mann & Jorma At The FPR… & More

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This past weekend we hosted Woody Mann and Steve Kimock at the Fur Peace Ranch. Two of my favorite people!

Foto by John Hurlbut

Saturday night the concert was the wondrous Steve Kimock partnered with Jerry Joseph. By the Bye… I got to sit in as well.

Foto by Vanessa Kaukonen

Sunday we had our group foto and open mike.

Foto by Brett Thompson

My class this weekend was an electric one and I had a simply great bunch of guys. Thanks fellas… this was ...
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Happiest Of Mother’s Day This May 10, 2015!

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Just a short note on this Mother’s day… There are a lot of Moms out there and we would all be nowhere without them. Vanessa, you rule! Izze and I honor you. For all the other Moms out there, this day (and all days) is for you. Enjoy what here in Southeast Ohio, is a beautiful… beautiful day!

Dads… pay attention!

Onward with love!

Jahrzeit For My Mother

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Jahrzeit & Mother’s Day 2015

Another year has come and gone… Mother’s Day is right around the corner and May 8, 2015 is the seventeenth anniversary of the passing of Beatrice Love Kaukonen, my Mom. Her Father, Benjamin Samuel Levine and his Mom and Dad Shmuel and Gittel came to the United States in 1905 from Ekatarinoslav on the Dneiper River in what is now the Ukrainian Republic. Typical American story… Russian Jewish tobacco farming in Ellington, Connecticut. ...
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A Spring Ride With Jerry

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A beeeyoootiful Sunday… that would be last Sunday the third. I finally had 20 seconds to get together with my buddy JB and ride to Rutland for some breakfast it Millie’s. It ain’t health food, but by golly… it’s home cooking! Then we rode down Ohio 7 past the Gavin Power Plant… down past Gallipolis… a great ride with the mighty Ohio River to our left.

We crossed the Ohio just south of Proctorville and found our way down to ...
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A Journey Of Ancestors And Futures

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Last Saturday night we hosted R. Carlos Nakai and Will Clipman at the Fur Peace Station for an utterly enchanting evening of shared consciousness. It was such an honor to have these amazing gentlemen here in our little corner of the world. The entire audience was held spellbound as we were all taken on a journey that I find difficult to express in words. You just had to be there.

I joined these two amazing gentlemen for two songs on ...
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