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Thank you Atlantic City!

Thank you New Jersey State Casino Reinvestment Development Authority!

Thank you, Mayor, Marty Small and Kashan McKinley and ACPD Sergeant Lopez and Howie Mason.

Thank you all! It was the best summer in 10 years with 500 to 1000 people, every Wednesday night, seeing the finest free headline concert series on the East Coast of the United States!

We are gleefully and hopefully anticipating Mardi Gras on the Boardwalk in June 2026!

Last night the Weeklings did a sensational, melodic, excellently tight and rockin’ tribute to the Beatles along with their own marvelous Beatlesque Music.

The Cowsills showed the power of the vocal harmony that makes them one of the greatest classic pop bands in the world!

What a gorgeous evening as our finale classic pop concert of ‘25!

We are ecstatic about the Tony Mart Legacy remembrances of rock ‘n’ roll concerts tomorrow night starting 6:50 PM on the Beach in Somers Point.

It will be an absolutely exceptional night of all the unique and magical nights on the beach in Somers Point this Friday, Sept. 5th, when classic South Jersey Allstars Lew London, Patty Blee, Dr Bobby Fingers and Howard Isaacson perform with The Tony Mart Allstars in a show dedicated to Herb “Bubba Mac” Birch, founder and owner of the whimsically historic Bubba Mac Shack that once stood on Bay Ave. in Somers Point.

The evening will start with a posthumous tribute to Somers Point rock n’ roll icon Bob Campanell, as the Campanell family will perform one of Bobby’s beloved songs.

The Sept. 5th concert will truly be a legacy of our lifetimes in South Jersey with the guest stars taking us on a warm and nostalgic music tour of our lives in the last 40 years.

Our beloved Lew London will play his fiddle, providing a highlight when he does “Orange Blossom Special” as well as the songs we all remember from his many years at The Library and other clubs.

The great Patty Blee will do her poignant vocal stylings and kick some rock n’ roll out in tribute to the great Linda Rondstat, The Dixie Cups and Fleetwood Mac.

Howard Isaacson will perform his #1 smooth jazz hit “Daylight” as well as his incredible version of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”, which The Allstars, with Bobby Campanell and Ernie Trionfo, played so phenomenally, intensely so many times on the Beach in Somers Point.

“Old School” Jimmy Glenn will do his signature rendition of Springsteen’s “Rosalita”; Brian Conover will sing Conway Twitty’s “Only Make Believe”; and The Eagles’ “Desperado” while Lew London plays the violin.

“Big Bob” Ernano treats us with “Rocky Mountain Way” & “Whipping Post”, while Bugsy Boyer and Lew London jam away on their guitars.

Dr. Bobby Fingers returns triumphantly to turn the beach into a gigantic sing-along and pay tribute to our great country with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The USA” before we take it all home with the music of Bob Dylan & The Band.

After 2 1/2 hours of non stop concert and dance party music on the beach, we will let the good times roll into the evening after the curfew as our friend and sponsor, Sam Trocki, has agreed to donate the music area of his gorgeous Tavern on the Bay so that we can continue the party with a Bobby Fingers sing along and all the musicians and friends who want to be part of this great finale party night to share these legacy memories with the classic South Jersey stars and each other.

The show is free with Bobby Fingers and many of The Allstars performing as soon as they are able to get over to the Inn on the Bay next to the beach following the end of the show at 9:30pm.

Not only is this a great way to beat the curfew but it’s always a great way for us to all party together at the end of this phenomenal summer season of 2025 on the beach in Somers Point.

The Tony Mart Allstars and the classic guest stars all thank Sam Trocki and his team for providing the party place, the bar with great libations and a limited late night menu.

We salute them and some of the greatest musicians in South Jersey history. We look forward to sharing some sacred memories.

We have a lot to be thankful for after such a great season!

Now it’s Local’s Summer and we can relax and enjoy each other and more of the finest libations from Circle Liquor.

Tonight we will be joined by our close Circle wine drinking friends, Mike and Julia, the Wine Goddess; Mark and Judy and for this special occasion, our dear friends, Rune and Helena on their final night in South Jersey before they return to Norway by way of New York City.

We will Let the Good Times Roll!

It’s time for 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. Check out the 1.5 L La Tour white burgundy for only about $19.

Circle has the most impressive selection of rosé wines from Provence and an astounding array of Pinot Noir from the Russian River, Oregon and France!

There are so many great light reds as well as super deals on big reds and champagne.

Try the Roederer Estate Champagne. A perfect flavor of late summer for only $25 a bottle!

The vastness of selection and the extensive marked down world class wines, over 200 bourbons, an aisle of tequilas and single malt, scotches and whiskeys make Circle Liquor Store the place to get ready to Let the Good Time Roll! Open 7 days 9am to 10pm.

Remember the Big Easy Cruise is well over 80% sold out so if you want to experience this luxurious and tremendously hip Louisiana Music Cruise, contact bigeasycruise.com right away and ask for the Tony Mart discount.

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.

We love our valued sponsor Rich Gerber, and we congratulate him on receiving his Medicare Masters Certification, giving him expertise and recognition on healthcare subjects impacting aging and family.

After rigorous training and many hours of continuing education, Rich Gerber earned this designation to add to his vast expertise in guaranteed financial investments, annuities and multi year, guaranteed annuities, as well as the knowledge to put it all together the right way for you, your family, and your future.

We again congratulate Richard and ask you to call him at 609-653-9101 to talk to him about the many ways he can learn more about you, your family, and your future.

With his over 48 years of experience it is a great advantage for any of us to speak with an expert like that for free!

We can’t wait to have a glass of wine with you Richard, and celebrate!

Somers Point Has One Historic Rock Star Still Standing!!

From the time that Len Carrie, the drummer in The Spike Jones Big Band, and his Krackerjacks began swinging Tony Mart’s in 1952, until the summer of ’65 when Bob Dylan took Levon Helm and Robbie Robertson away from Conway Twitty and Tony Mart’s, there were dozens of the biggest names in rock n’ roll performing regularly every summer through the 50’s and the golden age of the 60’s.

There is only one still standing! Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels rocked Somers Point many times before Mitch became an iconic, international rockstar with his famous career.

Mitch Ryder will perform many of those multimillion selling hits in his illustrious career at the “First in the Nation Celebration” concert, Somers Point Beach on Friday Sept. 12th, 7pm, when he will headline with the Tony Mart Allstars.

In addition to mega hits “C.C. Ryder/ Sally Take a Ride”, “Good Golly Miss Molly” & “Devil With the Blue Dress On”, you will hear his hit, “Sock It to Me Baby” that went to #6 in the country, until moralists tried to get it banned even though Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In was joking “Sock it to Me Baby” on national TV.

It will be a joyous and historic ending to yet another “First in the Nation” season of magical and unique concerts on the Beach in Somers Point.

Thankfully our own iconic singer and guitarist, Danny Eyer, will be back on stage that night warming us up with the music of Bill Haley and Del Shannon.

Also with The Allstars you will see Howard Isaacson performing his #1 smooth jazz hit, “Daylight”; the world class keyboard player and musical director of Dead Zep, Waynard Scheller; Dan Burke & “Big Bob” Ernano continuing Detroit rock n’ roll with a tribute to Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. The party starts with the wildly popular emerging blues rock stars from right here in South Jersey, Twisted Livin’ Band.

It will be a 2 1/2 hour celebration of our musical legacy. If you would like to be a patron of the “First in the Nation Celebration”. You can make a $100 or more donation and be named on our Legacy Patron List and receive photo ops and a keepsake poster that night by sending an email to tonymartpresents@gmail.com contacting any member of The Tony Mart team at the beach concert or on Facebook.

We wish it could go on forever, but this will be a fantastic finale to what has been a dream season and a renaissance of The Legacy Concerts on the Beach now presented by Tony Mart Cares at the famous little beach on the historic bay front in Somers Point NJ, where Tony Marts made history from 1945 until “Eddie and the Cruisers” took us home in 1982.

Let The Good Times Roll!

Retrospectively it is clear that the music scene and our culture began changing radically after that summer of ‘65 with Conway, Levon and Mitch at Tony Mart’s.

The next season Tony Mart shook the Jersey Shore music scene with a psychedelic hard rock band called “The Magic Mushrooms” who drew lines of patrons around the block in front of Somers Point’s most famous nightclub.

Mitch Ryder is one of the great rock stars who rolled right along with it. He evolved along with greats like Gary US Bonds, Springsteen, Southside Johnny and John Cafferty and Beaver Brown.

He has been an exceptionally popular and hugely respected, hard rockin’ musical force to millions of fans and thousands of musicians. Musicologist and sensational performer he goes all the way back to the turn of the last century with the song CC Ryder and takes us right up to his latest albums and performances with superstars at 80 years old today.

We are so fortunate to have him this week on the radio show as Mitch Ryder tells us about what it was like in the summer of ‘65 when he replaced Levon and the Hawks on those last weeks of the summer of ‘65.

He was hard rocking before his time and persistently a musical force to this day.

We are proud that this legendary rockstar will be part of our Best in the Nation Celebration Friday, September 12 at the magical and unique Legacy Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point.

When we became able to do an extra special celebration concert on September 12 after winning national notoriety three years in a row, we knew there was one mega rockstar that would be the most appropriate. We wholeheartedly and sincerely thank Mitch Ryder for agreeing to do it!

From this week with over 20 of your favorite musicians of the last 40 years of musical history in South Jersey to next week with Mitch Ryder and another entire allstar concert with Twisted Livin’, the return of Danny Eyer and a mini tribute to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, let’s all get together and Let the Good Times Roll two more times in ‘25!

The First in the Nation Celebration Finale requires significant additional costs not originally budgeted for this show.

We’re flying Mitch Ryder and his wife in from Detroit; we’re providing ground transportation and rooms; we are assembling over a dozen of the best musicians and performers to accompany him and perform with him on the night of Friday, September 12.

To help us with all of this we have started a “Best in the Nation Celebration Patron List.

To become a patron just send us an email at tonymartpresents@gmail.com or come and see us on the Beach this week to make a donation of $100 or more.

Some of the patrons to date include:

Dr. Ken Jagger
Pat Nardo
The class of ‘75 reunion who will be on the Beach celebrating that night thanks to Terry Purro Reilly;
“The Tree Man” Timmy and Helen Lenzsch;
The Plaid Salmon and Twisted Livin’ Bands thanks to their illustrious “Momager” Laura Keiter;

Please join us in the celebration. We will have a souvenir poster and photo opportunities for the all patrons.

Be part of the fabulous legacy finale of our lives in Somers Point and South Jersey.