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Music, Food, Fun, Travel: Let the Good Times Roll! Live this Saturday and every Saturday at high noon on WPG 1450AM 95.5FM Listen to:  Current Podcast  - prior podcasts *System Requirements May Apply to Stream Live

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May 16, 2024

TONY MART PRESENTS MUSIC, FOOD, FUN AND TRAVEL THIS SATURDAY AND EVERY SATURDAY AT HIGH NOON ON WPG 1450AM, 95.5FM AND www.TonyMart.com

On Thursday, May 21, we will know!

Hold your breath! Think positive! We were voting Number One in the country when the latest results were revealed, but the final results will not be available until next Thursday.

The Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point have been at or near the top in the last three years of polling at USA Today Top 10 Readers Poll for the Best Outdoor Concert venue in America!

In 2023 we were Number One.

In 2024 we were Number 2 second only to Vail Resorts, a corporate ski resort company.

This year we are near the top again!

You can easily help us celebrate another big time winning season of unique and magical small town Concerts on the Bay.

If you would like to become a Sponsor or if you need information about renewing your Sponsorship simply send us an email at TonyMartpresents@gmail.com

If you would like to make donations, go to Venmo and make your donation directly to Tony Mart Care’s, Inc. which is now the producer of the Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point.

This is part of our celebration to let everyone know that Tony Mart Cares has stepped in to save the concerts as we know them and will now invite all of you to celebrate them with us in our customary superlative way every Friday night from June 13 into September! Help us make our 32nd anniversary season as great as ever as we extend our special thanks to the Somers Point Beach Concert Committee and the directors of Tony Mart Care’s Inc.

Fabulous free and low cost concerts and events are blossoming everywhere in the spring landscape.

It all starts with the totally unique, never before seen Dylan Dead Zepp reenactment of Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Concert, next Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, May 25.

It will be a memorable musical experience as local and national stars perform the music of Bob Dylan as interpreted by the international stars who performed on that historic evening, October 16, 1993 at Madison Square Garden.

Renowned guitarist Jayden Lehman from “Oteil and Friends”, of Allman Brothers/Dead & Co. fame, will be the featured guest star at the “Dylan Dead Zeppelin” concert at the vintage Celebrity Theatre at The Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City.

Dead Zep will perform a reenactment of Bob Dylan’s 30th anniversary concert “My Back Pages” with many guest stars. Jayden Lehman will perform the part of George Harrison doing Harrison’s Dylan tribute.

Dead Zep, led by Waynard Scheller, renowned for his work with Bob Weir, The Jerry Garcia Family and The Yoko Ono Foundation, will lead Dead Zep in a set of melodic medleys combining Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin classics before performing the tribute to Bob Dylan and many allstars who performed with Dylan on that occasion, including Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn, Chrissy Hynde and The Band.

General admission tickets for the three hour show, which includes some limited VIP seating is still available at Claridge.com or www.TonyMart.com

7PM June 6, the Somers Point Beach once again comes alive with a world class concert presented by the South Jersey Jazz Society as Grammy Award Winning Arturo O’Farrell‘s 17 piece Latin Orchestra brings the beauty and texture of its diverse and remarkable musical sounds to our charming Beach.

Saturday, June 7,

4 to 8 PM The Historic Village at Smithville will become “Eagles Country” as Tony Mart Presents the Tony Mart Allstars performing two full shows of the biggest hits in tribute to the most popular recordings artists in rock n’ roll, “The Eagles”.

This is Smithville’s “Summer Kick Off Party” and it will be a family fun festival for everyone with all the attractions at Smithville as well as food trucks, beer wagons and a special VIP Sponsor Area with premium seats, wine and beer tastings sponsored by the Bogle Family of Wines who will present their critically acclaimed “Juggernaut” Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio and Cabernet Sauvignon.

General admission and parking for the concert event is FREE and $35 VIP tickets for premium seating and tastings are available by going to www.TonyMart.com, clicking on “Hot News” and following the prompt.

For years this performance by The Tony Mart Allstars has been one of the most popular at the Somers Point Beach. Now the Coppola family and The Marotta family will bring it together for the northern end of the county as Tony Mart Presents “Eagle Country” at historic Smithville.

Let the Good Times Roll in Galloway!!

The word is given at Circle Liquor Store and their shelves are crammed with all of the most exciting new products that people want for the spring and summer good time season!

With our wine goddess, Julia Stacey Reilly, we will talk about the most in demand items, cocktails in a can, wine spritzers with Aperol, the latest light and refreshing seltzer and THC beverages as well as fine, white wines, Prosecco, champagne, and light reds for the spring season.

Circle Liquor Store is open seven days a week from 9 AM to 10 PM and they have doubled the size of their tequila selection. Their bourbon selection is now over 200 and they will soon be featuring a custom bottle of bourbon from a private barrel commemorating the legacy of Somers Point nightlife!

It’s customer appreciation day at Circle Liquor Store, 11AM to 3PM on Saturday, June 7.

Tony Mart’s will be there, the wine goddess will be there and dozens of your friends celebrating and enjoying free food, tons of free stuff, given away constantly, games and drinks.

We will broadcast live from the Circle that day, June 7th, so come and join us on the radio

Saturday, June 13 the 32nd anniversary of the multi award winning Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point begins consecutive Friday nights through early September.

It will be an amazing start to the season with two most famous musical stars of late night television, Jimmy Vivino from the Conan O’Brien show and the Emmy award-winning musical Director of Saturday Night Live, GE Smith, combine to play all of their favorite music to entertain the crowds for the first time ever on the Beach in Somers Point.

We would like to congratulate two of our stars this summer, Shemekia Copeland, winner of Best Blues Album of the Year at the Blues Hall of Fame Music Awards May 8 and the tri-states own, Vanessa Collier, now an international touring star and winner at the BMA Awards for the Best Instrumentalist.

Shemekia will perform at Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk July 16 and Vanessa Collier will come home to the Jersey Shore to be with all her tri-state fans on Friday, August 15 at what will be one of the most exciting and biggest of all the concerts in Somers Point this summer.

Simply go to www.TonyMart.com and www.SomersPointBeachConcerts.com as well as the Facebook pages to see the entire schedule, which includes the very special August 1 performance of John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band with living legend of rock ‘n’ roll saxophone, Michael “Tunes” Antunes at 84 years old!

This year‘s performance will include John Cafferty‘s new music from his latest release “Sound of Waves“ which was inspired and touted by Bruce Springsteen who regards John as one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll legends we have.

Check the entire schedule out everywhere and look for unique performances of The Melody Trucks Band with Vaylor Trucks from the Allman Brothers Legacy; performances of Conway Twitty‘s music and Elvis by Tre Twitty, Conway‘s grandson, with one of the greatest roadhouse, rockin bands in America, The Nighthawks, performing with the world class boogie woogie piano of Reverend Billy C Wirtz on August 22nd.

Every Friday will be a special and very unique experience for all of us to enjoy!

Look for Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk to explode at Kennedy Plaza in Atlantic City on June 25 with the Jammin’ Jersey Nola Funk Fest, starring Jimmy Law and Jeremy Kaplan from one of the countries hottest jam, rock, bands, “Dogs in a Pile”, appearing with Asbury Park’s funky, brassy Ocean Avenue Stompers and Soul Project NOLA in a nonstop funk fest to kick off the Boardwalk season.

Go to www.TonyMart.com and the Tony Mart Facebook page to see the incredible All-Star headline schedule of 11 Wednesday night Concerts on the Boardwalk this season!

Mark the calendar on Monday, July 21, 2025 for the Jersey Gumbo Cookoff and Louisiana Music Festival which this year features “Fiddle, Guitars and Squeeze Box” - a phenomenal combination of Louisiana “Squeeze Box”, the world class violin of musical director, Heather “Little Mama” Hardy and guitar guest stars, Billy Walton, Popa Chubby, and Denny Shiffler from Twisted living.

Go to www.TonyMart.com for details of this free party with free parking and free concerts from 3:30 til 10:30PM at The Point Tiki Bar, 998 Bay Ave on the historic Somers Point Bayfront. Come ready to taste some of the best gumbo ever made in the state of New Jersey as the competition heats up between the reigning Jersey Gumbo King Chef, Robert Levenson of Resorts and a dozen competitors seeking to dethrone him in 2025!

Nearly 20 of the great performers from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival will be on the Big Easy Cruise January 18 when it leaves Fort Lauderdale and cruises up the Mississippi River to New Orleans for a special concert with Galactic at Tipitina‘s, the legendary nightclub. For seven days, you will enjoy the finest Louisiana, gulf states music while visiting Mexico and sailing the smooth and relaxing western Caribbean waters in January. Go to BigEasyCruise.com and book before they sell out.

But now it’s time to get ready for summertime at the Shore and Tony Mart’s will be at the Claridge; at Smithville; at the legacy Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point and Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City!

Let the Good Times Roll!


Donate: Tony Mart Cares, GoFundMe

With much love and appreciation, we thank you for all that you have done and continue to do to be such an important a part of the Tony Mart Family!

 

 


Somers Point Beach Concerts


Summer 2025
June 13th - Sept. 5th

Unique, Magical, World Class Concerts
on Small Town Beach.

Morrow Beach, 800 Bay Ave

Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk


Summer 2025
June 25th - Sept. 3rd

R&B, Funk, Roots & Classic Rock

Atlantic City at Kennedy Plaza

Rock The Point


Summer 2025
May - August
The Billy Walton Band

998 Bay Ave, Somers Point