Kazee also will perform (with his Early Elton trio, devoted to the early songs of Elton John), as will Kirk. Disc jockey Tom Cunningham (whose weekly “Springsteen on Sunday” show can be heard on 107.1 The Boss), Jeff Kazee (of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes) and Brian Kirk (of the band Brian Kirk & the Jirks) will be honored for their support of Fulfill. “Shore to Rock Hunger,” a benefit for the Fulfill food bank (formerly known as the FoodBank of Monmouth & Ocean Counties), will take place at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, May 11 at 7:30 p.m., with Southside Johnny, Jesse Malin, Jill Hennessy and Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner among the performers.In conjunction with the gala, there will be an online auction with vacation packages, Broadway tickets and more, that ends May 6 at 10 p.m. Students from Vanguard’s VTC Next programs also will perform, and Lin-Manuel Miranda has provided a video introduction for the evening. Norm Lewis, a Tony Award nominee (for “Porgy and Bess”), will perform at the Vanguard Theater Company’s 2023 Gala, May 6 at 6:30 p.m.The tour’s only other currently scheduled New Jersey show won’t be until the fall, when Baker performs at the Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, Nov. Anita Baker - who released her debut album The Songstress, featuring her first hit, “No More Tears,” 40 years ago - will bring her Songstress Tour to the Prudential Center in Newark, May 10 at 7 p.m., with Babyface opening.Other performers will include Cliff Westfall, Elk City, Frankie Morales & the Mambo of the Times Orchestra, The Brooklyners and Hudson City Rats. The festival, which runs on Washington Street in downtown Hoboken from the Observer Highway to Seventh Street, features two music stages in addition to arts and food vendors, children’s activities and more all along Washington Street. They will present a tribute to The Kinks, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The Loser’s Lounge - the long-running New York collective that is led by keyboardist Joe McGinty and specializes in pop and rock covers from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s - will headline this year’s spring edition of the free, biannual Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, taking place on May 7 from 11 a.m.

Performers will include Samara Joy (this year’s Grammy winner for Best New Artist), Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Carlos Henriquez’s “Tito Puente & Tito Rodríguez Centennial Celebration,” Adonis Rose & the Big Easy All-Stars, Orrin Evans, Camille Thurman, Charlie Sepulveda & the Turnaround, Ocean Avenue Stompers, Brother Joscephus & the Love Revolution, Joanna Pascale, Brassville and others.

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