Last month, Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter and activist best-known for her minor 1995 hit “I Kissed A Girl,” passed away suddenly in a house fire while staying with friends in Woodbury, Minnesota. Sobule was 66. This past weekend, a number of Sobule’s peers and admirers played at a series of tribute shows in Northampton and Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as Santa Monica. Performers included Amanda Palmer, Margaret Cho, Lisa Loeb, Tom Morello, and Madeleine Peyroux, among others. In the months ahead, there will be more Sobule tribute shows, or Jilith Fairs, in Evanston, Philadelphia, Seattle, New York, and Pittsburgh.
