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It was surely a funky good time on the Mississippi River this past weekend when so many of our favorite funky performers and good friends put on an incredible show at the NOLA Funkfest to promote the coming Louisiana Music and Heritage Museum scheduled to begin next year.

On Friday it was a fabulous start with our dear friends Soul Project NOLA killing it with the roots of New Orleans Uptown Funk dedicated to the memory of the great Walter Wolfman Washington. That night, Ivan Neville and Dumpstaphunk did a great set before Galactic performed an intergalactic set with the great Jelly Joseph and many guest stars.

On Saturday, the guest stars abounded when Reggie Toussaint and the Toussaint family produced a superb and warm tribute dedicated to their father and grandfather, Allen Toussaint. The show featured dozens of the greatest New Orleans performers who have joined us at the Jersey Shore in Atlantic City and Somers Point in the past few years. Bonerama performed a great opening set and Mark Mullins played with the orchestra. Cyril Neville, Omari Neville and Ivan Neville all performed as well as Erica Falls who was the lead singer with Galactic at their first performance on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City several years ago.

Erica Falls and her incredibly tight band did their own set of classic and neo soul complete with a group of phenomenal New Orleans female vocalists. For new blood, the Afro Cuban Cimafunk brought the house down with a searingly, sexy, funky Caribbean concert that exploded like an Afro Cuban accented P-Funk extravaganza. We have our eyes on them for the Atlantic City Boardwalk!

The finale of the Funk Fest on Sunday night belongs to “King George” Porter whom we had the privilege of interviewing last week on the show. Together with his “Running Partners” Chris Adkins as musical director and about 20 guest stars, including Cyril and Omari Neville, Brian Stoltz from the Funky Meters, Rapper Two Tone, who was everywhere at the festival, and jazz stars, including David Torkanowsky from Astral Project and the New Orleans Jazzfest board, Mark Mullins from Bonerama and Anders Osborne.

Masterfully done and performed for almost 2 hours, George Porter went all the way back to The Meters, The Nevilles, The Running Partners and some of the most famous songs in New Orleans, rock ’n’ roll history, they called it a “Super Set” of songs that he originally recorded. With the wind blowing off the Mississippi River and two river boats, “The Natchez” and “The City of New Orleans”, cruising back-and-forth between the festival and the Crescent City Connection, it was an absolutely historic moment in the history of the city that gave the world, American music!

Congratulations to Chris Beary and everyone on the phenomenal three day festival and the plans to start construction of the 175 Million dollar Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience Museum!

Tony Marts is so proud to be a part of it and we are ready to share the wealth with everyone at the Jersey Shore as we prepare to bring many of these artists to the Beach and the Boardwalk in ’27!

As always, we are proud to work with the Circle Liquor Store, probably the best independent liquor store in the world, as we prepare for the Halloween parties and fun football parties with “spicy wines for the witches cauldron” a special feature on spicy red Zinfandel, rich and complex Syrah, peppery Malbec and tangy with spice German Gewurztraminer and Gruner Veltliner.

We will have our own fabulous wine goddess, Julia Stacey Reilly, to help us curate and interpret this novel Halloween wine feature.

It will be a treat for the pallet and a trick to see the tremendous values recommended by the Circle Liquor store winemaster, Chester Malloy, as always!

It was a funky good time last week and life will get spicy this week!

It’s exciting and delicious if you embrace it!

Let the Good Times Roll!