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X 2019 Calendar of Events oceancityvacation.com DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL OCEAN CITY, NJ VACATION APP TO KEEP UP TO DATE WITH OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY! AUGUST Sundays and Wednesdays The Ocean City POPS Orchestra will perform their 91st professional concert season at the Ocean City Music Pier on select Sundays and Wednesdays throughout August. All concerts will begin at 7:30pm. For more information call 609-399-6111 or visit oceancityvacation.com AUGUST Every Monday Beach Exercise on 6th Street Beach. 8:00am - 9:00am Free! Bring a towel & a friend. Hosted by the Ocean City Aquatic & Fitness Center AUGUST Every Tuesday Funtastic Tuesdays – 10am – 1pm on Asbury Ave. Entertainment, Face Painters, Balloon Sculptors. Mummers Night – Strutting 7pm – 9pm on the boardwalk, 6th – 14th Streets Beach Walks – South End Location: 59th St. & Central Ave., (Entrance to Corsons Park) Tuesdays-9am, Wednesdays-6:30pm. Tickets may be purchased on-site. Adults $1.00 Children $.50 Fun Runs (Short & Kids Distances) – 6:00pm, Carey Field, 6th & Atlantic Ave. All Ages! FREE! For More information [email protected] AUGUST Every Wednesday Beach Exercise on 6th Street Beach. 8:00am - 9:00am Free! Bring a towel & a friend. Hosted by the Ocean City Aquatic & Fitness Center. For more information call (609) 398-6900. Farmer’s Market at the Tabernacle Grounds every Wednesday 8am – 1pm. Crafters in the street at 6th & Asbury Ave. Ends September 4 Beach Walks – South End Location: 59th St. & Central Ave., (Entrance to Corson’s Park) Tuesdays- 9am, Wednesdays-6:30pm. Tickets may be purchased on-site. Adults $1.00 Children $.50 Wacky Wednesdays - Wacky But Not Tacky events and contests that are fun for the entire family. 10:30am every Wednesday starting June 26 through August 28 at the Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace & Boardwalk. AUGUST Every Thursday Market Days, 10am – 1pm - Asbury Avenue. Entertainment, Face Painters, Balloon sculptors. Family Nights, Entertainment on the boardwalk 7:30pm to 9:30pm between 6th-14th streets. Historic Inn Tours – Thursdays 2pm – 4pm, pick-up at 7th & Central Ave. Ends August 22 Fun Runs (Long Distances) – 6:00pm, Carey Field, 6th & Atlantic Ave. All Ages! FREE! For More information [email protected] AUGUST Every Friday Beach Exercise on 6th Street Beach. 8:00am - 9:00am Free! Bring a towel & a friend. Hosted by the Ocean City Aquatic & Fitness Center. For more information call (609) 398-6900. AUGUST 28th - Wacky Wednesday - French Fry Sculpting - Use your creativity to shape and sculpt french fries into your very own unique masterpiece. Contest is free. Open to all ages. Start time: 10:30am at the Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace & Boardwalk. For more information call 609-399-6111. Event is subject to change! AUGUST 28th - A Salute to the 100th Anniversary of the American Legion Join us as the Ocean City POPS celebrates the 100th anniversary of the American Legion. Rousing works celebrating our country by Morton Gould, Aaron Copland, Leroy Anderson and Irving Berlin among others. 7:30pm Tickets $20/15. Ocean City Music Pier, 825 Boardwalk & Moorlyn terrace. Visit oceancityvacation.com/boxoffice or call 609 399-6111 AUGUST 30th - Swon Brothers and Josh Gracin -- A country music concert featuring the Swon Brothers and Josh Gracin is set for 7:30 p.m. August 30 on the Ocean City Music Pier. In 2013, the Swon Brothers became the first duo to make it to a season finale of “The Voice” with the help of their coach, Blake Shelton. The Swon Brothers released their self-titled album and received a nomination for CMA Vocal Duo of the Year in 2014. They have toured with Carrie Underwood and are now busy preparing new music, including the newly released single “What Ever Happened" from their new EP. Josh Gracin fans fell in love with the Michigan native and former Marine upon his ascension onto the country charts in 2004 with “I Want To Live.” The hits came in short order for Gracin – the chart-topper “Nothin’ To Lose,” “Stay With Me (Brass Bed)” and “We Weren’t Crazy” all hit high on the Billboard charts. Tickets for the show ($25 to $30). Visit oceancityvacation.com/boxoffice, call 609-399-6111, or stop by the City Hall Welcome Center (Ninth Street 1 and Asbury Avenue), the Roy Gillian Welcome Center on the Route 52 causeway or the 46th Street Welcome Center. SEPTEMBER 1st - A STAR IS BORN AND BEYOND Three legendary icons plus three beloved motion pictures plus three best-selling soundtrack albums equals one epic concert celebration. Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Lady Gaga each stole our hearts with A Star is Born. Now a trio of Broadway/cabaret's best voices join forces to celebrate the music from all three iconic film versions of A Star is Born featuring The Man That Got Away, Shallow and the Academy Award-winning Evergreen. The concert will also feature other breakout movie songs that helped to define iconic silver screen moments. 7:30pm tickets $35/25. Ocean City Music Pier, 825 Boardwalk & Moorlyn terrace. Visit oceancityvacation.com/boxoffice or call 609 399-6111 SEPTEMBER 2nd - OCNJ Labor Day Race - 5 Mile beach run and 1 Mile fun run/walk. Great end of the summer season event. $20 Pre-registration. $25 Race Day. $10 14yrs. & under. For more information call 609- 399-6111 or www.ocnj.us/Race-Events SEPTEMBER 4th - Farmer’s Market -Farmer’s Market at the Tabernacle 8am – 1pm. Crafters in the street at 6th & Asbury Ave. 8am – 1pm. Final Farmer’s Market of the 2019 Summer Season. SEPTEMBER 4th - Here She Is - Former Miss America’s in Concert The Ocean City Pops orchestra will celebrate one of the Jersey Shore’s most treasured traditions when Miss America 2002 Katie Harman Ebner and Miss America 1998 Kate Shindle perform as special guest vocalists. Miss America 2012 Laura Kaeppeler had been scheduled to perform but is no longer able to join the concert. Shindle – who wowed audiences as a headliner in the Ocean City Theatre Company’s “Broadway on the OC Boardwalk” show 10 years ago – will return to Ocean City to join Harman at the concert. The two former Miss Americas will take concertgoers on a journey through Broadway, pop and opera. Both have been recognized around the world for their vocal achievements. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4. Tickets $20 to $30 are available at www.oceancityvacation.com/boxoffice, by calling 609-399-6111, or at the Music Pier Box Office, the City Hall Welcome Center (861 Asbury Avenue) or the Roy Gillian Welcome Center (on the Rt. 52 causeway). SEPTEMBER 6th and 7th - Street Rod Weekend – Features classic cars on display. Sock Hop Party on the grounds of the Ocean City Tabernacle 6pm – 7:30pm on Friday. Boardwalk display 12noon – 4pm on Saturday. For more information call 609-399-6111. SEPTEMBER 7th - LaKisha Jones in THE QUEENS OF ROCK AND SOUL with the Ocean City POPS Join American Idol Finalist LaKisha Jones in a celebration of the great ladies of soul from Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Tina Turner, the legendary Aretha Franklin and the one and only Whitney Houston. “...from sound stages and concert halls across the country and around the world, she’s got them standing in the aisles!.” Best known to millions of TV viewers as a top four finalist during the 2007 season of “American Idol,” LaKisha Jones is ready to reclaim center stage in music, theater and television. Her last album, “So Glad I’m Me” was full of Jones’ expressive, full-bodied and arresting vocals, the same voice that electrified “American Idol” viewers with the “Dreamgirls” showstopper “And I Am Telling You” and later the Broadway stage in the Oprah Winfrey produced, Tony Award-winning musical, “The Color Purple.”A frequent soloist with symphony around the world, Ms. Jones has performed as a guest soloist with the National Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Utah Symphony and Opera, Winnipeg Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Reno Philharmonic and more! This concert is produced by Group 5 Productions, LLC. 7:30 PM at the Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace & Boardwalk. For more info call 609-399-6111 or oceancityvacation.com/boxoffice Tickets: $30 Orchestra and $25 Solarium SEPTEMBER 11th - 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony - "A Day to Remember" will include music, prayer and reflections on the memory of lives lost and on the community spirit that was renewed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. All are encouraged to attend. 6pm at the Ocean City Tabernacle, 550 Wesley Avenue. SEPTEMBER 11th - Symphony Night at the POPS. Cody Austin and the world-class musicians of the Ocean City POPS are the stars of the show. The orchestra will be at its virtuosic best as Maestro Vince Lee leads some of the greatest and most-beloved music in history, featuring favorites such as Beethoven's powerful Fifth Symphony and selections from Wagner's operatic Ring Cycle. It's a thrilling evening you won't want to miss! 7:30pm Tickets $25/20. Ocean City Music Pier, 825 Boardwalk & Moorlyn terrace. Visit oceancityvacation.com/boxoffice or call 609 399-6111 SEPTEMBER 14th – Ocean City Boardwalk……Walk To Defeat ALS This 2 mile walk raises funds to support patient services and research. Registration is 9:00 am & the walk will start at 10:00 am. Registration is at the 6th street practice field, 6th street and boardwalk. Help us take steps to defeat ALS! For more information www.oceancitywalktodefeatals.org or (215) 554-4143. SEPTEMBER 14th – Ocean City Airport Festival – Annual festival at the Municipal Airport, 26th & Bay Ave.