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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 will be a warm and gorgeous Friday night on the Beach tonight, June 5, when the talented Keiter brothers, PJ Keiter and Will Keiter, lead their “Hot Eight” in a Salute to American Jazz performed by the world’s first and greatest jazz ambassador from our country, Louis Armstrong, as they are celebrating in New Orleans for the 250th birthday of our nation.

We are so grateful to have the masterful, multi Grammy award winning Joe Denofrio producing this event along with our dear friend and mentor, Nick Regine and the South Jersey Jazz Society. We want everyone to join us in a beautiful night and relish the joy of life at the unique and magical venue where the Legacy Concerts on the Beach will begin their fourth consecutive season at or near the top of the entire United States on the USA Today top 10 Readers Guide. Imagine that! First or second place four years in a row!

We want to thank Joe and Nicky and all our friends in SJ Jazz Society as well as the great musicians performing for us this evening before we head over to see the Prince of the Tony Mart family, the Jersey Shore Rock and Soul Guitar Hero, Billy Walton, performing on what will be a sensational night to party at The Point, 998 Bay Ave. on the historic bayfront of Somers Point where Bayshores once stood.

Last weekend it was chilly, but the music was warm and the crawfish were big and fat and juicy at Michael Arnone‘s Crawfish Festival where we feasted on fresh ones along with the best smoked alligator sausage anywhere.

Johnny Sansone showed why after 30 years he is now an overnight sensation with a phenomenal two performances of his great band. John Papa Gros performed the music of Dr. John, The Meters, Allen Toussaint, Billy Preston and the Beatles and Levon Helm. That is the tribute show they will do on the Beach July 24, 2026. The day your master of ceremonies turns 70 years old.

Joe Krown and his trio were superb with their performance of the New Orleans piano masters from his new recording, “Qualified”. One of the true sleeper bands that is a quintessential, searingly hot uptown New Orleans funk band, Soul Project Nola, slamming it down in the hills to get ready for two shows down here in Somers Point at Jersey Gumbo on July 13th at The Point.

They are also scheduled to perform at Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk, July 15, with five time Grammy nominated, Queen of the Blues, Shemekia Copeland, in another concert with two great performances.

One of the best if not, the best performance at the Crawfish Festival was the late night Bonerama performance when this tremendously tight, exciting, unique ensemble performed with five trombones and one of the greatest sousaphone players in New Orleans, Matt Perine. They are led by founder Mark Mullins, and his son Michael Mullins singing classic rock, including Led Zeppelin with all that brass accompanying it.

We cannot live on music alone so we had to go to the Greek festival and enjoy the superb Greek pastries better than almost anywhere you can find such ethnic masterpieces. The moussaka, the lamb, the gyros, as always it was an ecstatic celebration of the strong Greek community in Egg Harbor Township with a very impressive fireworks finale. The Greek festival runs through Sunday night with more fireworks that night.

In vino veritas and we must add wine to the mix, and that means our very own wine, goddess, Julia Stacey Reilly, who will again waiver wine at some of the greatest French wines available at knockout, value prices. At Circle Liquor Store they have well over 40 of the finest southern French rosé and we will savor some of those while offering a very special world class Napa Valley Cabernet for under $50, Russian River Chardonnay from Benoni for only $17.99 and a world class Bourgone Blanc 2021 for an incredible $26.99 for wine that compares with $60 to $80 a bottle wine from Bouchard Estate: incredibly low prices!

Also, this week we will visit with the executive chef and People’s Choice 2025 Gumbo Chef Philip Gormley at the Historic Smithville Inn. A beautiful site with all the flowers of spring, the perfect place to enjoy a pleasant summer evening while experiencing some of the finest, classic American foods for our 250th birthday. Enjoy the world class prime rib with real Yorkshire pudding; the signature chicken pot pie; one of the world‘s finest stuffed pork chops and of course, the incredible desserts, including the warm apple philo pastry shell made on premises and filled with mouth watering fresh apple compote and the finest vanilla ice cream! There are specials and there are all kinds of new entrées as well, and we will talk to Chef Phil about his spring delights.

From Bay Avenue where the concerts begin and The Point is now rocking to the top of the state of New Jersey, where we experienced the Crawfish Festival and the finest superb dining at Smithville Inn, we clearly say that spring is busting out all over and we invite you to get ready as next week Tony Mart Cares will present the first of the Legacy Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point with no less than one of Nashville‘s greatest singer, songwriter and producers, Tom Hambridge, who has worked with the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Florida Georgia Line, Susan Tedeschi and many more including Buddy Guy with whom he just won his fifth Grammy award.

What a way to start the summer and roll right into Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk and the Fourth of July!

Let the Good Times Roll!