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Lenny Kaye and Tammy Faye Starlite Will Perform a Benefit Concert for NJArts.net
December 14 is the date for the Lenny Kaye/Tammy Faye Starlite concert to benefit www.njarts.net, a non-profit one-stop for everything cultural in our great state. Our friend Jay Lustig has helmed this site for 10 years, offering free content, based on his previous decades as a trusted Jersey journalist. The show will take place in Montclair at Outpost in the Burbs.
Tammy Faye Starlite to Become Nico Again
Hoboken chanteuse Tammy Faye Starlite is gearing up for another run as Nico this spring in a new show—’Nico: Underground’—set for Joe’s Pub in New York City May 1, 8, 15 & 22. No one does Nico like Tammy Faye.
Tammy Faye Starlite Joins Cast of New Marianne Faithfull Tribute Album
How could you have a Marianne Faithfull tribute album without Tammy Faye Starlite? The Hoboken hottie, already with a Faithfull alt-cabaret show of her own, duets with Barry Reynolds on “The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan.” ‘The Faithful: A Tribute To Marianne Faithful’ (In The Q Records)—due December 8—is a 19-track 25-artist double-album with Tracy Bonham, Josie Cotton, Cat Power & Iggy Pop, Shirley Manson of Garbage with Peaches, Bush Tetras, Lydia Lunch and others covering songs Faithful recorded between 1964 and 2004.
Tammy Faye Starlite’s ‘Nico Underground’ Show Returns To Joe’s Pub July 24
Hoboken’s Tammy Faye Starlite will return to Joe’s Pub in New York City July 24 as the legendary ‘60s chanteuse Nico [1938-1988] with songs by Lou Reed, The Doors, Jackson Browne, David Bowie, Rogers & Hart, Gordon Lightfoot and Bob Dylan.