July 26, 2026 · Rockit Live
Rockit Academy at the Monmouth County Fair
Eddie and Susan Brigati on stage with the next lot coming up.
Rockit Academy students with a framed Rascals award.
EBDB Music Corp · Eddie’s personal collection
Eddie and Susan Brigati sang with students from Rockit Academy at the Monmouth County Fair on 26 July.
The Rockit Live Foundation is a New Jersey nonprofit founded by Bruce Gallipani. It puts musicians aged eight to eighteen into real bands and onto real stages — around a dozen concerts a year. Eddie sits on its board alongside Steven and Maureen Van Zandt.
Sixty years after a bar band from Garfield signed to Atlantic Records, the same county is still turning them out.