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One of the greatest food critics and culinary journalists in the history of southern New Jersey, Ed Hitzel, suffering a very sudden death approximately 11 years ago.

At that time, Carmen Marotta was becoming an increasingly frequent cohost on his show, TABLE FOR ONE. Consequently, The Tony Mart Family became active in producing a radio show that focused on restaurants, cooking and wine, but expanded it into the music of the Tony Mart Legacy.

With the assistance of Harry & Don Hurley, affiliated with WPG, this became a reality that has become the highest ranking Saturday afternoon talk show at 12:00pm weekly: Tony Mart Presents Music, Food, Fun, Travel: Let the Good Times Roll!

In the 10 years that have transpired since the inception of the weekly talk radio show, Tony Mart Presents has increased its production of concerts with further development of Mardi Gras On The Boardwalk, the FREE Boardwalk concert series that initiated approximately 15 years ago.

In 2025, Tony Mart Cares Inc., our nonprofit community service organization became the producers of Legacy Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point, now in its 33rd year.

Several years ago, Tony Mart Presents reintroduced The Jersey Gumbo Cookoff & Louisiana Music Festival, which has become exponentially successful in July at the beautiful tiki bar and tropical nightclub, The Point, located at 998 Bay Avenue, at the site of the former Bay Shores Nightclub, across from the original Tony Marts on the historic Somers Point bay front.

The Jersey Gumbo Cookoff & Louisiana Music Festival continues its focus featuring extensive information on favorite restaurants and eateries along with extensive information about the amazingly FREE concerts, which are produced in both Somers Point and Atlantic City as the premiere FREE headline concert series at the Jersey shore each summer.

The radio show now features detailed information and very interesting, amusing & fascinating interviews regarding the performances and the careers of the musical artists; travel to major musical events such as New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and back in Jersey, Michael Arnone's Crawfish Festival in Sussex County. Occasionally, the show features savory details of the last of the 'real deal' Americana restaurants, BBQ's, 'road food' and traditions which we are still able to enjoy for over 45 years.

In addition to updating and encapsulating all of these activities produced by Tony Mart Presents and Tony Mart Cares Inc., the radio show has become focused on the fabulous wines of the world and the significant values offered by Circle Liquor Store, our premiere sponsor, as curated by the wine master at Circle, Chester Malloy, the First Lady of Circle Liquor, the lovely Jeanette Giemza, and Tony Marts own sommelier, Julia Stacy Reilly, AKA the 'wine goddess'.

With so much content and detail as to how to enjoy life it's no wonder that the radio show is consistently polling the #1 most listened to show our time slot by large margins!

It's all about celebrating positive good times in life! Tune in and remember that you can get the weekly broadcasts live in real time by merely clicking on WPG in the top right corner.

Let the good times roll!

With the glory of the Jersey Shore in the summertime all around us, it is amazing and delightful to have so many great performers roll through our lives. At the Celebrity Theater, where it was dry and comfortable last night, Gary US Bonds, the amazing seven generation 87 year young wonder, performed with his band and his family in a three hour concert, which co-featured one of Jersey’s top rock and rollers, Anthony Krizan, formally with the Spin Doctors and Jimi Hendrix bassist, Noel Redding, tearing up the stage with a phenomenal rock ‘n’ roll band and two of the best horn players on the East Coast, Kevin Presutti and Tony. featured trumpeter from the Bon Jovi Band.

More family and friends arrive to help us celebrate summer at the Jersey Shore this Wednesday night when two time Grammy award winner, Terrance Simien and The zydeco Experience bring their Louisiana sounds, world music, classic rock and they’re now famous song “Gonna take you there” from the Princess and the Frog movie and the new Gianna‘s Bayou Adventure” based on the movie at the Magic Kingdom

Whether we’re on the Boardwalk at Kennedy Plaza or the weather chases us into the beautiful Celebrity Theater at the Clarridge Hotel, this will be a lifelong memory with one of the greatest performers in the world sharing our love with all of his friends at the Jersey Shore.

On Friday, we’re headed back to the Beach in Somers Point with the rock stars who played a Beatles tribute and Beatlesque Music in the popular band, “The Weeklings” with members of Styx, ELO, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Max Weinberg’s Jukebox and many more famous rock ‘n’ roll bands.

For the second Monday night concert in the series known as “Lundi Gras on the Boardwalk” in Atlantic City, Tony Mart will proudly present one of the most popular blues rock bands in the world, Tommy Castro and the Painkillers multi award winning Entertainer of the Year making a stop after their tour of Canada to see all of their friends in the northeast during one of their very few appearances this summer as good times continue to roll on the Boardwalk and “The Prince of the Neville Brothers Family” Ivan Neville brings his All-Star Dumpstaphunk Band within Ian Neville, Tony Hall and some of the greatest New Orleans Funk musicians entertaining today performing the uptown New Orleans funk, intense jammin’ Dumpstaphunk music and the classic songs of Sly and The Family Stone.!

An amazing funky yet classic New Orleans sounding jam, Ivan Neville is one of the top New Orleans performers in the world today and he will be there for us on the Boardwalk with the beverage garden and all the good times, Wednesday, 12 August.

Let the Good Times Roll!