Suzanne Westenhoefer With Opener Cheley Tackett
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Saturday, May 31, 2025 7:30pm
Location
The Knight Stage
182 S Main St
Details
Suzanne Westenhoefer
Imagine a truth-telling, hilarious, bold lesbian Barbie and a picture of Suzanne Westenhoefer comes into focus. There’s been nothing in her closet but her clothes since 1990 when she burst onto the comedy scene (on a dare, nonetheless).
With her platinum locks, immaculate makeup and chicest blazer, Suzanne personified 1990s lesbian chic when appeared on Sally Jesse Raphael’s “Breaking the Lesbian Stereotype” episode.
She has been breaking through barriers from being the first lesbian comedian with an HBO comedy special to the first lesbian comedian to perform on “Late Night with David Letterman” and all points in between.
The girl who grew up on the wrong side of Amish country has been advocating for LGBT rights, women’s rights and choice, and other causes since the 1980s.
It doesn’t matter whether you are in line for a TSA screening or in a sold out auditorium, Suzanne will not stop until she has your rolling with laughter. Nothing is off limits to her. Every show is an off-the-cuff, unscripted laugh riot.
Cheley Tackett
A native of Ohio, Tackett has been part of the Nashville music scene for over 20 years. Her debut CD “When We Knew It All” earned the Just Plain Folks Award for Country Song of the Year in 2001. Her song “Penny Wishes” won the top prize in the country category at the 2002 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at Merlefest in North Carolina. She is also a Kerrville New Folk winner from the prestigious international Kerrville Folk Festival, following in the footsteps of previous winners Lucinda Williams and Lyle Lovett. In 2015, she was voted Nashville’s favorite LGBT musician. Tackett also won the 2020 Songwriter of the Year award from Just Plain Folks. Respected as much for her artistry as for her songwriting, she has cross genre appeal, and has opened for or shared the stage with Americana artists such as Mindy Smith and Mary Gauthier, folk rockers America, as well as country acts including Ashley McBryde, Kathy Mattea, Chris Young, James Otto, Doug Stone, and more.
