The next Tony Mart Cares party will take place 6 p.m. Friday, March 3, at Josie Kelly’s Public House, 908 Shore Road in Somers Point, with musical performances by the Tony Mart All-Stars starting at 7 p.m.
As usual the event will be free to the public with a reserved seating donation for $10.
Tony Mart Cares is a non-profit community organization that supports regional musicians, some from as far away as New Orleans and Tucson.
It’s about to undertake a new project centered around recording the music of “Big Bob” Ernano, and a special posthumous tribute to the music of Mark Pfeffer, Esq.
Titled “Tony Mart Cares for Mark Pfeffer,” the fund-raising event will generate funds to produce a recording of music originally written and recorded on a limited basis by Pfeffer, one of the finest people to walk the face of the Earth. We all loved him so much.
This will be a project by Bob and the Tony Mart All-Stars to pay homage and honor Pfeffer’s songs that he composed and performed with “Big Bob” Ernano, and his lifelong friend, Joseph Sayegh, Esq., in a band of lawyers called “Hearsay.”
We will celebrate the first performance of these recordings on Friday, March 3, when the Tony Mart All-Stars perform some of them, and highlights from the popular, “The Music that Made Tony Mart’s Famous” show.
There will be favorite requests from the performers and audience in a party dance show on a warm and wonderful night from 7 to 10 p.m., thanks to the support and generosity of Kathleen Lloyd and Dermot Lloyd at Josie Kelly’s Public House.
Also on that evening, Tony Mart Cares will celebrate and honor Cindy Fertsch, editor of Shore Local as she has agreed to join Carmen and Nancy Marotta, Frank Formica, Joe Sayegh, Dara Quattrone, Esq., “Old School“ Jimmy Glenn and Dawn Collins on the board of directors of Tony Mart Cares, which is now in its third year of community service to South Jersey.
We applaud her tremendous accomplishment and dedication to helping people and thank her wholeheartedly for agreeing to become part of Tony Mart’s.
Here’s the list of the All-Stars who will be performing on March 3:
Joining “Big Bob“ Ernano from the Tony Mart All-Stars that evening are Danny Eyer, the great first call saxophonist; Howard Isacson, the musical director of the Tony Mart All-Stars; Rich “Megahurtz” Kurtz; Bob Coulon from the Dane Anthony Band and special guest drummer, Bob Kimmel from the new, seriously great group, Red, who will be sitting in for “Old-School” Jimmy Glenn.
