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The Tony Mart Cares event “Dedicated to Danny” was a smashing success with over five hours of phenomenal live performances by 30 of the greatest performers in South Jersey at Josie Kelly’s Public House this Monday, September 22.

Thanks to the generosity of well over 200 attendees and the magnanimous performances all donated by the musical artist who loved Danny Eyer so much, we were able to raise critical funds to help make up for the lost time Danny suffered this summer during his hospitalization and medical rehabilitation.

That’s what we call rock ‘n’ roll for the right reasons at Tony Mart Cares!

We’ll recap a little bit with some of the performers and the truly awesome experiences shared by all at this memorable occasion.

In the meantime, we’re ready to think about the 2026 season and we’d like to invite everyone to save the date, Friday, January 9, 2026 for the Tony Mart Care‘s Legacy Concerts on the Beach Kickoff Party for all our friends and sponsors. There’s no better way to let everyone know that we want to produce another magical and unique summer of Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point Friday nights starting June 11 through September 11 with a Fourth of July concert on Saturday, July 4, 2026!

Please contact us by email at Tonymartpresents@gmail.com if you would like us to send you a survey and questionnaire or become a sponsor for next year and support Tony Mart Cares Legacy Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point or simply go to our website and download and complete the questionnaire at blank.

People often ask us where do you find all the great bands and musical artists that you present on the Somers Point Beach and the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

It is true that over half of all the performances are rooted in local and regional bands and artists: The very best ones!

Additionally there are many international musical artists and performers that have worked with us and whom we continue to engage for our concerts.

A good place to start is New Orleans so we’ll be heading down there for the Crescent City Blues, Brews and Barbecue Festival the weekend of October 10, 11 and 12 followed by the recently founded and the increasingly popular “NOLA Funkfest” on the Mississippi River the following weekend, October 17, 18 and 19.

We will be reporting from there and catching up with our friends and performers while making plans for next season.

To celebrate the trip, we are going to give away Mardi Gras King Cakes, complements of PJ’s Coffee in Linwood. Wayne Heaton is the proprietor of the real New Orleans coffee house located at 1201 New Road in Cornerstone, Linwood, New Jersey (609)569-4914, www.pjscoffee.com.

We’ll visit with Wayne on the radio this week and talk about all this fabulous New Orleans coffee drinks and specialties as well as the freshly made beignets, those wonderful Creole donuts he makes fresh at PJ’s Coffee. We will highlight the delicious, traditional, Mardi Gras king cakes, made of the best danish pastry style cakes, with all kinds of icing and colorful decorations, as well as delicious fillings that you can select by order.

We will take calls and give away king cakes during the show this week on September 27th!

It’s Local Summer Celebration to begin at the Circle Liquor store, probably the best independent liquor store in the world and certainly the best place in New Jersey to get ready to Let the Good Times Roll!

The huge selection of cocktails in a can, seltzer and all the other popular convenient warm weather drinks for late summer fun are available. The light liquors to go with your Prosecco and make the perfect apéritif for your barbecues and parties are available as part of the huge international specialty Lacore selections. The right thing for before the meal with sparkling wine and the perfect thing for after dinner drinks combined with other bourbons, whiskies, brandies and of course, countless vodka combinations for martinis and cosmos.

There is a delicious selection of world class Prosecco‘s at very low prices and several of them are available chilled. Don’t miss the Bell Casal probably one of the best you’ll ever taste!

The light world class whites including Pinot Grigio from the Alps and the central coast of California as well as wonderful world class French whites especially old world, Chardonnay, and white Bordeaux blends at tremendous Values for great summer parties.

We welcome the return of our wine goddess, Julia Stacey Reilly, from her trip to the vineyards in California. She will talk about Daou and other great wines including World class Chardonnay at really excellent prices and super Tuscan reds at unbelievable prices!

Just a couple weeks after the holidays, you can immerse yourself in a luxurious cruise surrounded by the greatest New Orleans musical artists in the world performing on the lovely Holland America Eurodam right on board with you.

The Big Easy Cruise is leaving Fort Lauderdale on January 18, 2026. It will sail up the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where another one of our headline stars, Galactic, will perform at their nightclub, Tipitina‘s, for all of those passengers fortunate enough to be on The Big Easy Cruise enjoying the comfort, safety and luxury of the Holland America Eurodam, while intimately relaxing and simultaneously experiencing the greatest, most exciting performances of Little Feat, Trombone Shorty, Cyril Neville, Samantha Fish, Marcia Ball, Mark Broussard; Soul Rebels, Johnny Sansone, Susan Cowsill, George Porter, Jr., Beausoleil for the Cajun touch, and a dozen more Gulf Coast music stars.

Go to Bigeasycruise.com to check it out quickly as it will almost assuredly sell out! Tell them Tony Mart Presents referred you and get a special discount.

Local summer is flowing into early autumn throughout South Jersey. There is the Italian Festival at Smithville on Saturday, September 27 with all kinds of crafts, Italian songs and over 15 food trucks as well as the finest pub fare at the Barrymore Tavern and the top rated excellent dining at the Historic Inn of Smithville.

At Gregory‘s it’s the best Oktoberfest around right on Shore Road in Somers Point beginning Thursday the 25th and rolling through the season.

For a really interesting and sophisticated change of pace, check out “A Night at the Opera“ an event presented by our dear friends at the Somers Point Unique Experiences Club where on Tuesday, October 21, at Gregory’s Restaurant, four world class performers, including Grammy winning soprano, Julie-Ann Green and Justin Gonzales whose acclaim spread all the way to the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. You can enjoy a four course Italian meal prepared by the renowned Paul Gregory at Gregory‘s Restaurant while being serenaded in the intimate setting of their lovely little dining room.

This sounds really cool and you can reserve or get more information by calling 609-233-1820.

FIVE HOUR CONCERT WITH HUNDREDS OF FANS WAS “DEDICATED TO DANNY”

From 6pm until 11pm Monday night, Sept. 22nd, over 30 performers and hundreds of fans packed the ballroom of Josie Kelly’s Public House in Somers Point where everyone came to pay homage to one of New Jersey’s Favorite musical stars, Danny Eyer.

Starting with Patty Blee, Randy Bocelli, Dr. Phil and Steve Turner the night quickly became a huge concert featuring Hawkins Road, The Tony Mart Allstars, the band red, Twisted Livin’ Band, Dead Reckoning and The Plaid Salmon Horns.

Guest stars included Patty Balbo, from “Girls Can’t Help It”, the rock star vocals of “Big Bob” Ernano; and the ubiquitous, “Prince of the Tony Mart Family”, Billy Walton, who played with everyone all night long!

Danny performed in four different shows as Tony Mart presented hour after hour of intense and poignant performances dedicated to the Jersey Shore rock n’ roll anthems of our lives.

Billy Walton did Southside Johnny’s “Talk to Me”!

“Old School” Jimmy Glenn came out from behind the drums and performed Springsteen’s “Rosalita”, while The Plaid Salmon Horns blasted the horn parts from those songs and the Memphis classic “Soul Man” while everyone sang all the verses!

Patty Blee brought the house down with her version of “Bell Bottom lues” from Derek & The Dominos and “Big Bob” performed The Allman Brothers classic “Statesboro Blues” while Billy and the young guitar phenom, Denny Shiffler wailed southern blues rock on the guitar.

The super group red performed their music as well as the phenomenal vocals of Patty Balbo and everyone came together to do Danny Eyer’s original “Television Woman”.

There was even room for Elvis with Greg Sykora doing “Suspicious Minds” and Sharon Garland singing “Mess of Blues” by Elvis.

For hours and hours everyone partied, danced and sang while hugging and kissing one another and always the man of the hour, Danny Eyer.

In one room, in one night, we were enthralled by performances from Billy Walton, Patty Blee, the world class Andy Schlee from red, the popular rock star Bugsy, the phenomenal Charlie Wigo’s Dead Reckoning, and the young phenoms from Twisted Livin’ Band who were all there to play homage to one of their favorite guitar players, Danny Eyer.

It was an outpouring of love that is just a natural extension of all the great performances and the Legacy Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point, Mardi on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City and phenomenal performances all over Jersey brought together for the benefit of one of our greatest cultural treasures, the inimitable Danny Eyer, whose vocal performance and “flow of conscious” blues rock guitar have made him one of the all time favorites referred to by the late great Bob Campanell as “everybody’s favorite guitarist”!

For five solid hours, it was an absolutely unforgettable unparalleled tribute to one of the greatest, performers made possible by so many for the greatest performers and most loyal music fans in the world, The Tony Mart Family!!!

What a night!

It was the perfect welcome healing for our cherished favorite Danny, who lost half of the summer season due to serious illness.

You can contribute to support Danny by seeing him perform at The Tuckahoe Inn every Wednesday evening at 5:30pm or making donations by way of Venmo @Nancy-Marotta-3.

It’s what we mean when we say rock n’ roll for the right reasons!

Everyone is welcome to join us again in the new year on Friday, January 9, 2026 when The Allstars and their guest stars get together to kick off the campaign to produce the Legacy Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point!!!!

We are so grateful for the tremendous response to our “Dedicated to Danny“ event honoring Danny Eyer, we are thankful to Josie Kelly’s, who did such a great job hosting us on Monday night and where you can see our Jersey Shore Rock and Soul Guitar Hero, Billy Walton, in an intimate performance on Thursday nights 6:30 to 9:30 with the delightful and popular Tony Teshner.

Don’t forget the good times at the Historic Village of Smithville with their Italian festival this week on Saturday the 27th and their upcoming Oktoberfest

Enjoy all the good times and join us as we Let the Good Times Roll!