The New Jersey Hall of Fame has announced it 2023 honorees, including E Street Band member Patti Scialfa, “The Sopranos” creator David Chase and “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” singer Tony Orlando. They will be inducted Oct. 29 at a ceremony at NJPAC in Newark.
(OCT. 13 UPDATE: Tickets are now available via ticketmaster.com, and New Jersey Hall of Fame member Danny DeVito has been confirmed as the host of the induction ceremony.)
Scialfa is already a member of the hall, since The E Street Band was inducted in 2012. E Street Band members Bruce Springsteen (Scialfa’s husband), Steven Van Zandt and Max Weinberg have also been inducted individually.
Scialfa, Chase and Orlando will be the inductees in the Performing Arts & Entertainment category.
Other inductees will include:
Sports: Tiki Barber, Sue Wicks
Enterprise: Finn Wentworth, Josh Weston
Public Service: Stephen N. Adubato Sr.*, Charles Edison*, George Shultz*
Arts & Letters: George Segal*, Dorothy Porter Wesley*
Asterisks (*) denote those being inducted posthumously.
No other information on the induction ceremony is currently available. For information and updates, visit njhalloffame.org.
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