The Anglesea Blues Festival™ features both national and regional blues musicians and is held in conjunction with the New Jersey State Barbecue Championship™. Top Blues acts are featured on our FREE outdoor main stage, as well as in neighboring clubs and pubs.

Schedule Main Stage Schedule:

Band Line Up

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Four on the Floor

1:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Fat Mezz

Fat Mezz is a rock band out of South Jersey who, after getting their start in 2020, began playing shows in the Philadelphia area and down the Jersey shore, primarily in  Wildwood, NJ. After several years of consistently playing cover shows full time, in mid-2023, they released their first original tracks, a two-song EP titled “Fat Mezz Loves ******”. ******, whose illustration is featured on the cover, is the band’s beloved basset hound.

The band consists of Billy Thoden and Kurt Foster both playing lead and rhythm Guitar, Dom Levy on Bass, & Corey Chodes on Drums. All four are talented vocalists, constantly trading off lead, background, and harmonic vocals. The four grew up across south Jersey, all of them playing shows and picking up early on-stage experiences as teenagers. Meeting each other and playing on and off through the years they eventually joined forces. After playing under several different names they settled on Fat Mezz. The band’s name is a tribute to Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, a Jazz Clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as an outspoken civil rights advocate, and infamously, one of the most well-known marijuana dealers in the NYC jazz community.

Fat Mezz’s sound is rooted in a mix of Blues, Rock, Jam, Psychedelia & Soul. Their original music aims to reflect on their influences, bands of the past and present who’ve been cemented as pioneers and superstars as well as those who’ve been undeservingly forgotten. The band’s goal is to blend vintage sounds with new ones and deliver them to fans of all ages. fatmezz.com