Labor Day weekend, Friday on the Beach in Somers Point
By Carmen Marotta
The last two weeks of the season will continue the overall theme of “Abbondanza,” or abundance in English.
At 7 p.m., Fat Mezz will perform high-energy rock ‘n’ roll and dance music in a special one-hour show.
Everyone is invited to come early and set up their chairs as there will be a strong crowd wanting to see the band for the first time at the AtlantiCare Concerts on the Beach in Somers Point.
At 8:15 p.m., the Hall of Fame blues rocker, Joe Louis Walker, brings his Grammy-nominated music and his big band to the beach for a show of blues rock ‘n’ roll. Walker’s a universally recognized blues rock star who’s performed on stage with Ron Wood and The Rolling Stones.
Joe Louis came up in the San Francisco blues rock scene with Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana. Walker has had a widely respected career, including performances on Grammy-winning recordings by B.B. King and James Cotton, as well as winning six Blues Music Awards in Memphis.
His respected guitar performances and his big band are a vehicle for what the New York Times described as a “Cadillac of a voice.”
On the last concert on the beach in Somers Point Friday, Sept. 6, you will once again see an overabundance of world-class talent when the Tony Mart Allstars perform Tony Mart classics, your favorite rock ‘n’ roll and popular Nashville songs.
Following that full 75-minute show, one of the hottest classic ‘80s rock and dance bands, Red, will perform another full show of Pat Benatar, The Pretenders, Melissa Etheridge, and many more female vocalists.
With an overabundance of great music all summer long, we say goodbye as we let the good times roll two more weeks on Friday nights at the beach.
