Two New Shows Added to 2025 Summer Concert Series

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Two New Shows Added to 2025 Summer Concert Series

The music of Taylor Swift and Electric Light Orchestra will be featured during the 32nd annual Summer Concert Series on the Ocean City Music Pier.

Ocean City and producers BRE Presents and Bob Rose Productions announced two new shows on Monday: “Let’s Sing Taylor: An Unofficial Live Band Tribute” on Monday, July 28, 2025, and “The Orchestra Starring Former Members of Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II” on Monday, August 18, 2025.

“Let’s Sing Taylor” returns to the Music Pier after selling out three shows last summer. “The Orchestra” includes members of the original ELO and ELO Part II, but does not include co-founder and songwriter Jeff Lynne.

Tickets for “Let’s Sing Taylor” and for “The Orchestra” go on sale through etix.com at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.  

The Summer Concert Series features a lineup of rock and popular music concerts, typically on Monday nights at the Ocean City Music Pier. Check ocnj.us/SummerConcertSeries for the current lineup and updates on the complete series as new shows are announced.

WINTER WARRIOR CHALLENGE, ENVIRONMENT FAMILY FUN DAY AND HARRIET TUBMAN EXPERIENCE COMING UP FEB. 15

The Winter Warrior Challenge will return for its second year on Saturday, Feb. 15, and registration is open for the event’s fun and wintry competition.

Winter Warrior includes an obstacle course race for children, a “Winter Warrior” obstacle challenge for adults and team challenges such as a fire truck pull.

• Kids Obstacles: A fun, non-competitive course includes a rock wall, hazard walls, cargo net, agility poles, teeter plank, monkey bars, floating steps, tire run, and noodle tower. Kids also will get a chance to test their strength in their own fire truck pull.
• “Winter Warrior Challenge”: Show your grit on a cold 2.5-mile course with 10 obstacles. Look for things like sand mounds, tires, teeter-totters and monkey bars along the way. This race is reserved for participants ages 14 and older. All survivors receive an exclusive Winter Warrior Challenge finisher T-shirt.
• “Winter Warrior” Team Challenges: Teams of four from local businesses, organizations, churches and other groups will compete in events such as a fire-truck pull, dummy rescue and tire-flip relay.

Registration for all events is open now, and discounted fees will be available through 4 p.m. Feb. 12. For complete information and registration, visit ocnj.us/race-events.

The sixth annual Ocean City Nature & The Environment Family Fun Day is set for 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday Feb. 15 in the cafeteria at Ocean City High School (501 Atlantic Avenue).

The event is free and provides a great chance to get the kids out to do something educational, interactive and have loads of fun on President’s Day Weekend. This year’s program will include a wide range of nature and environmentally focused, hands-on experiences for both children and adults.  Last year’s event drew more than 850 parents and kids.

Some of the activities include:

• Small zoo animal interaction
• Marine life interaction
• Recycling arts and crafts
• Nature and environmental take-aways
• Food drive: Please bring non-perishable and staple foods and personal products to donate
• The importance of pollinating insects – show-and-tell
• Planting you own pollinator garden – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
• Bringing back the original jersey tomato – show-and-tell and seed giveaway
• Environmentally friendly shellfish replenishing demonstration
• Protecting the watershed and cleaning up the bay demonstration
• Trash decomposition and the environment
• The ins and outs of recycling
• How to compost
• Native plants exhibit
• Solid waste and wastewater management
• Electric vehicle charging location maps

The Ocean City Historical Museum invites the public to celebrate Black History Month with a free interactive performance titled “The Harriet Experience.” Re-enactor Crystal Hines will bring Harriet to life. The event is at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 in the Chris Maloney Lecture Hall at the Ocean City Community Center. A meet-and-greet with live music and light refreshments will follow the presentation.