THE OFFICIAL STONE PONY CALENDAR

REMEMBER JONES
back to BACK TO BLACK
The final NJ performance
A revival and re-creation of the entire AMY WINEHOUSE album Back to Black and more with a 15-piece orchestra band
plus a new original set from REMEMBER JONES
with special guests SixFoxWhiskey

Tickets: $25 in advance (plus applicable surcharges) $30 at the door

This will be the final NJ performance of back to BACK TO BLACK. Named one of Paste Magazine/Daytrotter’s Top Ten Soul/R&B artists of 2017, soul sensation Remember Jones brings a 15-piece soul orchestra to recreate the entire 2006 Grammy-award winning AMY WINEHOUSE album BACK TO BLACK, including a horn section, backing vocals, auxiliary instruments, and other special guests. Fronted by “one of the most enthusiastic, fiercely passionate powerhouses in the game” (Live for Live Music), Remember Jones will lead the ensemble through 17 songs, including the hit singles “Rehab,” “Tears Dry On Their Own,” “You Know I’m No Good,” “Love is a Losing Game,” and the title track, “Back to Black.” This one-of-a-kind event has sold-out The Stone Pony for the last 3 years. Sponsored by New Jersey Isn’t Boring and brought to you by UMTPresents and Remember Jones.

MORGAN EVANS
with special guest Madison Kozak
Tickets: $25 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $29 at the door

4th Annual Asbury Park Santa Run
8:30 am: Check-in begins
10 am: Race begins
11 am-1 pm: After party at The Stone Pony with Brian Kirk & the Jirks
Note: Kids are welcome to run, but after party is 21+

Asbury Park Santa Run is a 5K fun run in support of local charity, Lunch Break. All runners will be given a Santa suit at registration to run a closed course on the streets of Asbury Park. A portion of the proceeds from the race will go directly to the charity in addition to all funds raised by runners. There will also be a toy drive for runners to donate gifts to local children in need during the holidays. After the race, join us at the after party at The Stone Pony for live music and holiday cheer!

SAMMY ADAMS
GET LUCKY TOUR

Boston’s Sammy Adams caused quite a stir in 2010 when his debut album topped the online hip-hop charts the week of its release. Samuel Adams Wisner was a senior at Trinity College in Hartford when he decided to inject some attitude into Asher Roth’s hit “I Love College.” With the results posted online under the name Sam Adams, his answer song, “I Hate College,” made the rapper an Internet star in 2009.

On the strength of his independently released album “Boston’s Boy,” and mixtapes like “Party Records” and “Into the Wild,” Sammy built through touring colleges and clubs across the country, and signed with RCA Records in 2012. Since then, the singer, songwriter, and producer has been in the studio with such collaborators as Pharrell Williams, Ryan Tedder, Mike Posner, Bei Maejor, Supa Dups, Afrojack, Matty Trump, and Vinylz, and others, working on his debut album.

“Pharrell gave me the best advice about making an album,” Adams says. “He said, ‘Just be in the moment with your songs because if you try to write a song to be a hit two months from now, the culture can change.’ I’m really just trying to be true to myself and carve out my own lane. That’s what all my favorite artists have done.”

It’s with that joy and energy that Adams approaches his career as a pop artist. “I want to make music that’s universal, that anyone can relate to,” he says. “I’ve had my biggest success so far with pop songs and it has inspired me to write super-catchy hooks that people can jump up and down to. It feels authentic to where I am creatively at this point and I’m excited to continue to explore and play with this kind of music.”

Tickets: $25 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $30 at the door

BARNS COURTNEY: THE 404 TOUR 

The title of Barns Courtney’s new album will no doubt be familiar to anyone who’s ever searched for something online and found themselves face to face with nothing. But 404 is an album that explores feelings of loss and bereftness inspired by life’s habit of throwing up its own error pages, with Barns exploring absence, frustration, and the never-ending search for something that seemed like it would always be there until one day, suddenly, it wasn’t: his childhood. “It’s painful knowing that something has gone, whether it’s a good time, a good feeling, a pleasant section of existence, or something physical. I’m always wondering: if you were to go back and find places you knew as a child, what would they look like?” Barns says.

There was a time not so long ago when a 16-year-old kid who’d spent his teens ricocheting between Seattle and Ipswich thought he was about to be the biggest star in the world. He and some mates got a deal with the biggest of all the big labels, then spent three years working with one of the planet’s hottest producers. What could go wrong? Well, plenty. “My entire life since I was 14 had been an upward trajectory,” is how Barns remembers it. “Then suddenly at the age of 22 I’m dropped, I’m totally, woefully unprepared for the real world. No qualifications. I didn’t bother learning to drive, because I thought I’d be driven everywhere. Thank God I didn’t have any success — I would have been a complete ass.”

The years in the wilderness that followed formed the basis of Barns’ 2017 debut album The Attractions Of Youth, a blistering shot of blues-driven rock that got this singular pop performer’s foot back in the door. Songs like Glitter & Gold and Fire became viral smashes, prompting a swell of support on both sides of the Atlantic that saw Barns performing on Conan O’Brien and opening for everyone from The Who, to Blur, to Ed Sheeran. Which brings us to 2019 and a body of work that finds this reflexive, meticulous pop storyteller delivering a minutely crafted album with big tunes, flashes of humor and no shortage of ambition. Kickstarted by 2018’s sparky, Atari-referencing single 99, it’s an album that delves back beyond the arrested development of Barns’ early-20s and into the teens he spent in Seattle and then Ipswich.

Tickets: $22 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $25 at the door

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