(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The Asbury Park Music Foundation has announced the lineup for the 2022 Music Mondays series. This free weekly music event celebrates the diversity of the city by bringing music from various genres together to showcase the very best Asbury has to offer. The performances are held at Springwood Park, just two blocks west of the Asbury Park train station.
Shows begin at 6:00pm and parking is free around the park but is also easily accessible by bike or walking.Headliners take the stage at 6:45pm. There is free parking surrounding the park but is also easily accessible by bike or walking. This is a park so bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating or your dancing shoes!
2022 Music Mondays Schedule
6/27 Layonne Holmes and Motor City Revue (opening act: Kuf Nutz & Christine)
7/4 Alexander Simone (opening act: Des and the Swagmatics)
7/11 JT Bowen (opening act: Sharon Lasher)
8/15 Waiting on Mongo (opening act: Ocean Avenue Stompers)
8/22 Funktion (opening act: Lakehouse Band
8/30 (Tuesday) Sensational Soul Cruisers (NO OPENING ACT)
In 2011, the Asbury Park Musical Heritage Foundation was launched with an exhibition of Asbury Park’s rich musical history. In collaboration with the renowned Smithsonian Institution and with the support of a grant provided by Bruce Springsteen through the Monmouth Arts Council, this exhibit brought thousands of visitors to the city and to our first home, a space we dubbed Where Music Lives, on Cookman Avenue.
With the rapid expansion and growth of the city, in 2013, the mission was refocused to provide future generations of musicians the tools and opportunity to participate in music education programs, and in 2014, the Musical Heritage Foundation was renamed the Asbury Park Music Foundation.
We believe that our tag line seen on shirts around the globe now, MUSIC SAVED ASBURY PARK, has played a key role in reviving the City of Asbury Park as a whole. Our Music Saved My Life programming and philosophy has serviced under-resourced children in the Asbury Park area since 2014 and has offered kids opportunities to participate in school programs in the public, private, and charter schools, in after-school programs at Mt. Carmel, and in summer recreation activities. We also fund scholarships to our educational partner facility, Lakehouse Music Academy, and kids at the Boys and Girls Club are able to create and record music via the Hip Hop Institute that APMF created. APMF also funds and operates a converted school bus, a mobile recording studio called the Beat Bus. In the last several years, we have been able to put over 200+ instruments in the hands of waiting children.
In 2019, APMF was awarded a $110,000 grant from Impact 100 Jersey Coast to fund a Music Business & Technology program, which is operating out of our current home at 621 Lake Avenue. The kids in this program are learning the business side of music and using cutting-edge technology to create never-before-seen programming that will offer them vocational opportunities in the future. All of the programs APMF funds provide children with life-changing skills, opportunities for collaboration in bands, empowerment through education, and engaging in positive experiences.
In addition to youth education, for the last several years, APMF has offered opportunities to the community at large through a variety of free summer concert series. Thousands of residents and visitors come out to enjoy top-notch live music each summer in Springwood Park on the west side, in Bradley Park across from Convention Hall, on the Boardwalk, and starting this summer, at a new series in the downtown business district on Cookman Avenue. In 2018, APMF brought back an annual holiday show after a two-decade absence to celebrate the season and raised money for APMF as well as local charities that included Boys and Girls Club, AP Toy Drive, Mercy Center, and Jewish Family and Children’s Services.
Asbury Park Music Foundation has been recognized by the City of Asbury Park with a Proclamation for its good work, and in 2019, was the first recipient of the AP Chamber of Commerce’s Non-Profit of the Year at their annual Carousel Awards. In June of 2021, APMF will be receiving the Spinnaker Award for Arts and Culture by the Eastern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce.
