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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!

It is spring, and the young lions will roar!

All over the five musical calendar for the 2026 season you will see and hear the great young musicians, including Denny Schleffer and the Twisted Livin' Band opening up the very first Legacy Concert on the Beach in Somers Point June 12; before that the gifted young trumpet player, PJ Keiter will lead his own 12 piece jazz ensemble, The Young Lions, to headline the South Jersey Jazz Society concert inaugurating the great live music season, June 5, 2026.

P J Keiter will also play lead trumpet with the Ash Cats who will be part of the final concert proposed for Atlantic City with the world class “TKO love“ official Tribute to Teddy Pendergrass

But along the way his brother, Will Keiter and their superb young Plaid Salmon horns will perform with Billy Walton on the Boardwalk and at The Jersey Gumbo Cookoff and Louisiana Music Festival at The Point July 13, 2026.

They are the students, but the teachers are the All-Stars, The Tony Mart Allstars, including “Old School“ Jimmy Glenn, Rich "Megahurtz" Kurtz, Brian Conover, they are the professors and they are the producers giving the South Jersey community delightful spring series of weekends with all of their students performing the popular “Jesus Christ Superstar“ at the Gateway Playhouse both the weekend of April 10 and 11th as well as the following weekend April 17 and 18th. It’s all full circle and we will congratulate Rich Kurtz and Old School Jimmy Glenn when they join us on the radio this weekend and talk about this super new production that they are arranging, producing and directing themselves as well as the many shows we do together this year beginning June 24 with the proposed Tony Mart Classic Rock Superstar tribute on the Atlantic City Boardwalk June 24 and the world class production of classic rock starring one of the greatest recording stars from the Golden era of Somers Point, Mitch Ryder in Somers Point on 31 July and also scheduled for Wednesday, 29 July on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

Absorb the fragrances of spring all the way from Paris, where our wine goddess, Julia Stacey Reilly is en route to taste some of the fabulous wine that Circle Liquor Store will be featuring this spring. Upon her return we will continue visiting with her and enjoying French wine at super prices.

This weekend will be at the 30th anniversary of one of the greatest festivals of them all, the Tampa Bay Blues Festival where we will see our spiritual leader, Taj Mahal, and the Phantom Blues Band, Jimmy Vaughn from the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Samantha Fish who almost closed the Boardwalk with large crowds that excited us in August 2025

Also in Tampa Bay, we will enjoy one of the world’s greatest blues rockers, Tommy Castro, and the international Cajun Louisiana blues rock headliner, Tab Benoit, who are both preparing to come to the shore and perform for us this summer.

Before we get there, we’re getting ready to take on the granddaddy of them all, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in late April and early May and then back to Jersey for Michael Arnone‘s Crawfish Festival in Sussex County May 29 through May 31.

It’s time to play as we are joined by the All-Stars and surrounded by the greatest international stars in the world at Tampa Bay, Let’s all get together and Let the Good Times Roll!