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REMEMBER JONES

Remember Jones brings a 10-piece band for a high energy show of bombastic original music and stylized funk, soul, and rock covers of many favorites to keep you entertained and dancing! Recently called one of the Most Influential Artists for 2024 on the Jersey Shore (alongside Bruce Springsteen, Kevin Smith, and more), and harkening back to the presence of some of music history’s most notable entertainers, Asbury Park native Remember Jones is nationally known for his over-the-top theatrical events and funk rock/soul showmanship, with unique, feel-good live performances!

He has shared stages with Springsteen, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Darlene Love, Ronnie Spector, a member of Everyone Orchestra (alongside members of .moe, Ween, The Roots, Living Colour, The Revivalists, etc) and so much more! 

NYC Deluxe is a rock ‘n’ roll band whose longtime members have played together just about everywhere. Collectively, they’ve played with New York Dolls, Billy Squier, Willy DeVille, Paul Simon, Peter Wolf, Steven Van Zandt, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, The Hooters, Roger Waters, Ian Hunter, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Rufus Wainwright, Patty Smyth, Scandal, John Mayer, Roseann Cash and Willie Nile.

Guitar & bass playing brothers Steve & John Conte have been writing, recording & playing music together since they were 9 and 10 years old. Drummer Rich Pagano hooked up with the Contes in the late 1990s, recording many original albums, touring and playing shows together from NYC to the Midwest. When the trio needed a keyboardist, Andy Burton entered the picture in the early 2000s, working on many of those same projects including Steve Conte & Blues Deluxe, their band spotlighting the music of Rod Stewart & Jeff Beck. Guitarist Tommy Williams is the newest member of the group but fits right in to the family, having known Rich since childhood and sharing a similar love for all things British Invasion and Americana.

Together, the boys cover the full spectrum of rock ’n’ roll, from the R&B 1950s side (Chuck Berry, Little Richard) to the 60s Brit pop-rock bands (Beatles, Stones, Faces, Who) and back to Americana (Tom Petty, Dylan, Creedence, Springsteen, Cheap Trick).

The band’s motto, to quote Spinal Tap’s keyboardist Viv Savage, is to “Have a good time – ALL the time!”

Full Code was formed in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. The band consists of Craig Gronczewski, on guitar and vocals. Gronczewski is chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and one of four Princeton Health doctors who make up the aptly named band. On guitar is Jasmeet Bajaj, MD, medical director of the Critical and Intermediate Care units. On bass, Gabe Smolarz, MD, board certified endocrinologist. On drums, David Barile, MD, medical director of the Acute Care for the Elderly unit. On sax, Sam Benn-Fatah, the hospital chaplain. These docs rock.

Together, they have decades of education and experience, and a passion for what they do. They are on the frontlines of medicine, caring for some of Central New Jersey’s most vulnerable patients every day.

Full Code came together because of the physicians’ shared love of music but the band — and the camaraderie it breeds — definitely helps the doctors to de-stress.

After a day of focusing on test results, treatments and prognoses — and communicating all this information to patients and families — being fully focused on the notes, lyrics and harmonies helps to take them somewhere else mentally and emotionally.