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Now that we have had our lives “Funkafied“ at the crescent of the Mississipi River during the three day , Third Annual NOLA Funkfest, it’s time for us to share and celebrate and let you all know how many of these great world class New Orleans performers will be coming north to perform for us on the Beach and the Boardwalk in 2026.

It started with Soul Project NOLA, who actually kicked off Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk this past June; a really enchanting show was performed by “The Neville Sons“ all of the of newest generation of the Neville Brothers Family performing the Neville Brothers song book.

After a sensational performance by one of the greatest New Orleans rhythm and blues and funk pianists, John Cleary and His Absolute Monster Gentlemen, everyone sang all our favorite songs from Sly and the Family Stone as Dumpstaphunk paid tribute to Sly and we heard the echoes of our summers at the shore.

One of the top performances of the weekend was our friends, the Honey Island Swamp Band together with Mark Mullins from Bonerama. This was followed by the original trombonist with James Brown, Fred Wesley, and Dumpstaphunk's Tony Hall performing a Tribute to James Brown.

This was followed by three of the greatest performances you will ever see in New Orleans Music, The Funky Meters 2 with Ivan Neville and George Porter; one of the greatest New Orleans funk bands of all, Galactic, starring "The Soul Queen of New Orleans" Irma Thomas, Erika Falls and their vocal star, Angelica “Jelly“ Joseph, who absolutely tore it up with her hot sweet performance on the Boardwalk in August and at the Funkfest this past Sunday night.

The Legacy of the Mardi Gras Indians or “Black Masked“ Indians was honored with the 50th anniversary performance of the Wild Tchoupitoulas Tribe led by Chief Bo Dollis, Cyril Neville, Ian Neville, George Porter and Ivan Neville.

What a weekend of Funk!

We will interview the developer and Board Chair of the Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience, the world class music and heritage organization that produced the festival, Chris Beary, on Saturday, November 1.

Chris is renowned for his philanthropy and the tremendous amount of work he does serving meals to the homeless and performing multiple community services in his nonprofit organizations across New Orleans.

Also on Saturday, November 1st we will interview our own major force in feeding hundreds of thousands of people, our own Chef King Gumbo, Larry Alexander who will be on the show talking about all of his endeavors with the American Culinary Federation Chef’s Association and how many people they care for with their efforts.

Before we head from New Orleans to Mexico by way of Tucson and San Diego, we will visit two of the prime wine regions known for their excellence in California.

Our own wine goddess, Julia Stacey Reilly will take us to the Cakebread Cellars in Napa and the The Justin and Daou Vineyards in Paso Robles.

It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to have Julia Stacey Reilly bring us her entertaining and informative thoughts from her “Boozylifestyle.com“ website and her book.

Circle Liquor Store and Tony Mart Presents are very grateful to have her expertise as she interprets the greatest wines of the world and our favorites from California in a way that reveals the true value of Circle Liquor Stores winemaster, Chet Malloy, whose in depth knowledge and expertise allows him to provide our friends and customers with excellent values on world class wines.

Open from 9 AM until 10 PM seven days a week, Circle Liquor has the extensive selections of everything from hundreds of bourbons to a rack of tequila, vodkas from around the world, and the very finest and many rare, single malt scotches, cognac and single barrel whiskeys and hundreds of beers and ales, including everything pumpkin for the fall, it is the in depth selection and availability to obtain for its customers very quickly almost anything that is available in the state of New Jersey.

It is no wonder that Circle Liquor Store is probably the very best independent liquor store in the world, certainly the best in the state of New Jersey!

With all the good times, great wines, the very best music and all of the wonderful people with whom we share, Tony Mart Presents is very grateful and excited to bring all of this up the Mississippi, the Caribbean sea around Mexico, the vineyards of California and back to the Boardwalk and the Beach in Somers Point where we always come home to “Let the Good Time Roll!