April 5, 2025 • 8 mins
Baseball and music lovers come together each year for the "Hot Stove Cool Music" benefit concert, which raises money for underserved youth through the Foundation To Be Named Later. It's a brainchild of baseball writers Jeff Horrigan and Peter Gammons, with a nod to the sport they love. This year, the event is celebrating its 25th anniversary with some epic guests. Former Red Sox pitcher Lenny DiNardo, now a sports analyst at NESN, is co-hosting this year's event. He joins Nichole this week to share all the cool details about this hot event.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
From WBZ News Radio in Boston. This is New England Weekend.
Each and every week right here, we come together and
talk about all the topics important to you and the
place where you live. Thanks again for joining us this week.
I'm Nicole Davis. Listening to your favorite music on streaming,
perhaps the iHeartRadio app or Vinyl even cassette I hear
(00:27):
is big these days. That's a great experience, especially if
you can listen to your favorite songs over and over.
Going to a concert, though, really just elevates that energy.
You've got the lights, you can feel the bass, the
crowd is swaying, You're with all these other people who
love the same music. I mean, there's nothing quite like it,
except if knowing that going to that concert helped underserved
(00:48):
kids as well. That's what happens at Hot Stove. Cool Music.
This has been around now for a quarter century. You
might have heard of it. It's a brainchild of baseball
writers Peter Gammons and Jeff Horigan, and its name I
actually did not know this until recently, is a non
to the baseball off season. There have been so many
cool acts that have performed here. We're talking smashing pumpkins,
(01:09):
Liz Fair, Tom Morello, Steven Tyler. The list goes on.
Yet another, by the way, is Lenny DeNardo. You might
remember that name if you're a baseball fan and think,
wait a minute, musician, Lenny DeNardo. That's not right. He
was a picture for the Red Sox back in the
four team. Yes he was, but he has been performing
for many years now as part of Hot Stove Cool Music.
(01:30):
He is also with nesson, but he's here to talk
about this year's events. We'll learn a bit more about that. Lenny.
It is great to have you with us before we
get into your performances, before we get into the show itself,
tell us more about the charity that this is all
being performed for.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah. So, the Foundation to be named later was established
in two thousand and five by THEO and Paul Epstein,
twin brothers. Everybody tends to know Theo Epstein for what
he's done for the game of baseball, but Paul Epstein,
in his own right, is just a wonderful human being
who is doing great things for the Boston community. They
ended up putting us together, like I said in two
thousand and five, and basically it raises money for underserved kids, families,
(02:10):
families that really need help to kind of get where
they want to be, whether it's the Gammon scholars Peter
Gammon Scholarship Fund, I know they contribute money towards that.
There's been three hundred and fifty students that have benefited
from that, and there's a ninety nine percent graduation rate
for them as well. So they're doing great things. They're
raising money for people that really need it. And I
work at Fenway quite often when I broadcast, and there
(02:32):
are people working at Fenway and for the Foundation that
are graduates from that program, and it's always great to
see them. And now they're giving back to what helped
them kind of propel them to where they are today.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And they've been giving back for so long. And a
big part of this is Hot Stove Cool Music. Tell
me a little bit about this concert and why it
matters so much and what it does to generate some
of that fundraising to help these kids.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, Hosto Cool Music. It's the twenty fifth anniversary this year.
I've been to the majority of them. There's a few
years there where I was overseas playing in Taiwan or
I was a member of the Open A's and I
couldn't get there, and I always wanted to be there,
but I've been to most of them, and again they
raise money for the foundation to be named later. They've
(03:17):
had a tremendous amount of just a list bands I
played with Eddie Vedder, Yeah, exactly. Cheap Trick is going
to be there this year. We've got Greg Hawks from
the Cars, you name them, they've been there, they want
to be a part of this.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
James Taylor. I met James Taylor through this concert as well, So.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, local, kind of a local guy, right, his wife's
from Yeah, it counts, yeah, but I mean they do
wonderful things again, raising money for underserved people in the
community the Boston area, and the money's going to just
really a bunch of folks that are doing great things
currently and the next generation is going to benefit.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
From that as well.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, the concert itself is really cool. There's a lot
of great names as you mentioned, and I'm looking at
the list for this year, as you mentioned, Cheap Trick
and Greg Hawks from the Cars. We'll talk more about
that in a moment, but tell me a little bit
about the extras you've got planned for the twenty fifth anniversary,
because This is not one you want to go mincing
in on. You want to go all in for a
big show like this.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean, as if Keep Trick and Greg Hawks wasn't enough, right.
I know, I'm going to be co EMC with Tom Karron,
who I work with quite frequently on ness and broadcasting
the Red Sox Games.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
We're going to be there, you know, with our shanigans,
our usual.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Stick love and yeah, and we're just going to continue
with the music. I think the music brings the people out,
especially a band like The Cars rock and Roll Hall
of Famers. I've already talked to a ton of people
that are like, I got my tickets, I'm going.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I can't wait. We're very, very excited.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm a little bit nervous because I typically pick up
a guitar and play with the acts. I played with
Johnny Resnick a few years ago. He was here Eddie
Veterals on stage with him. Yeah, and I still don't
know what song I'm going to be playing, so I'm
a little bit nervous. I have to figure out a
what song. B I got to learn the song and
see you basically get through the nerve.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Like when you're going to lead this whole thing, because
clearly you've got the practice going on over all the years.
When are you going to headline hot stove cool music?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, look, we're trying to raise money. I don't know
how much revenue that's going to bring in. If it's
the ret it's former Reds like Pitcher Lendi Dernro headlining
a hot stove. But any little part that I can
be a part of to help this, I'm extremely proud
to do. I've been doing it, like I said, for
years and years, and any capacity they ask me to
be a part of this, I'm more than William because
when it comes down to it, this is one of
(05:29):
my most proud accomplishments, is being invited to this year
and year out and helping these individuals that need it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It seems like this really matters to you at the core.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Why is that, you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Know, especially these days where we're seeing a lot of
cuts to vital programs for you know, the a lot
of people that really need them most.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And I'm seeing a lot of really really individuals.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That are a lot of rich individuals getting richer, and
I'm seeing a lot of horror individuals having money and
benefits taken from them that hits home for me. I'd
be lying if I said I wasn't a little ticked
off about that. So this is something that we're helping out.
We're taking it into our own hands and helping raise
money for people that really needed. When you know, who
(06:14):
knows where these funds are going to come from these days.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So then let's talk about the who what when we're why?
When we know the why, so let's talk about the
other basics here. This is going to be at the Paradise.
Tell us when and how people can get tickets, how
much someone and so forth.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Go to the website, Yeah, April twelve, Hot Stove, Cool Music,
and go to the foundation to be named later website.
The concert starts at seven pm, I believe the doors
or at six point thirty. There's going to be opening acts,
the Hot Stove All Stars, featuring Peter Gammons on guitar
and possibly vocals as well. He's been playing guitar since
the nineteen fifties and he's just a wonderful individual.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I love spending time with him.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He's a Hall of Famer as well, Hall of Fame
individual person too, and he's been a part of this
I think I believe every year that this has been happening.
So there's gonna be a lot of things going on
other than music as well. There's going to be raffles,
There's probably going to be auction something like that, so
there's different things. You can get Red Sox memborabilia, probably
Red Sox tickets. It's going to be a great team
this year, so grab those as well. It's always a
(07:12):
great time. The festivities go long in so then I
we take it to the limit as far as the
until they have to kick us out of the paradise.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And it's a great venue.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's a great venue, very very accommodating, intimate venue that
I always love going either as a hot stove musician
and see or just a fan going to check out
music beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Where can people find out more? I mean, obviously we've
given a lot of information here, but if people want
to buy tickets, they want to find out more about
the event, that whole list of musicians including you, who
are going to be performing. Where can they get that info.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's on the Foundation to be Named Later website.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
If you google Foundation to be Named Later, there is
a link that you can click where you can buy
tickets and you can see who's playing on the bill,
you can say you can see.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm assuming there are.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Some auction items as well that are going to be
up for grabs at some point during the show as well.
So if you just check out the website, give it
a Google Foundation to be named later, you'll find that link.
It's easy to get tickets. And I hope to see
a ton of people there. I know there's a lot
of people that are excited already. People are contacting me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Ready to go. I'm ready to go, but again I'm
a little bit nervous. We'll see a song out there.
Tell you guys, see this is a big, big band.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Don't overthink it too much. I think you've got this.
You're going to be fine, all right, Luddy DeNardo, you
got this. Thank you so much for coming on and
talking about this hot stove, cool music, the foundation to
be late named later, all great stuff going on here.
Have a great show.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I appreciate it. I'm looking forward. I hope you can
show up. I'm looking forward to median person there.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I hope so too. Have a safe and healthy weekend.
Please join me again next week for another edition of
the show. I'm Nicole Davis FROMBZ news Radio on iHeartRadio
From WBZ News Radio in Boston. This is New England Weekend.
Each and every week right here, we come together and
talk about all the topics important to you and the
place where you live. Thanks again for joining us this week.
I'm Nicole Davis. Listening to your favorite music on streaming,
perhaps the iHeartRadio app or Vinyl even cassette I hear
(00:27):
is big these days. That's a great experience, especially if
you can listen to your favorite songs over and over.
Going to a concert, though, really just elevates that energy.
You've got the lights, you can feel the bass, the
crowd is swaying, You're with all these other people who
love the same music. I mean, there's nothing quite like it,
except if knowing that going to that concert helped underserved
(00:48):
kids as well. That's what happens at Hot Stove. Cool Music.
This has been around now for a quarter century. You
might have heard of it. It's a brainchild of baseball
writers Peter Gammons and Jeff Horigan, and its name I
actually did not know this until recently, is a non
to the baseball off season. There have been so many
cool acts that have performed here. We're talking smashing pumpkins,
(01:09):
Liz Fair, Tom Morello, Steven Tyler. The list goes on.
Yet another, by the way, is Lenny DeNardo. You might
remember that name if you're a baseball fan and think,
wait a minute, musician, Lenny DeNardo. That's not right. He
was a picture for the Red Sox back in the
four team. Yes he was, but he has been performing
for many years now as part of Hot Stove Cool Music.
(01:30):
He is also with nesson, but he's here to talk
about this year's events. We'll learn a bit more about that. Lenny.
It is great to have you with us before we
get into your performances, before we get into the show itself,
tell us more about the charity that this is all
being performed for.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah. So, the Foundation to be named later was established
in two thousand and five by THEO and Paul Epstein,
twin brothers. Everybody tends to know Theo Epstein for what
he's done for the game of baseball, but Paul Epstein,
in his own right, is just a wonderful human being
who is doing great things for the Boston community. They
ended up putting us together, like I said in two
thousand and five, and basically it raises money for underserved kids, families,
(02:10):
families that really need help to kind of get where
they want to be, whether it's the Gammon scholars Peter
Gammon Scholarship Fund, I know they contribute money towards that.
There's been three hundred and fifty students that have benefited
from that, and there's a ninety nine percent graduation rate
for them as well. So they're doing great things. They're
raising money for people that really need it. And I
work at Fenway quite often when I broadcast, and there
(02:32):
are people working at Fenway and for the Foundation that
are graduates from that program, and it's always great to
see them. And now they're giving back to what helped
them kind of propel them to where they are today.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And they've been giving back for so long. And a
big part of this is Hot Stove Cool Music. Tell
me a little bit about this concert and why it
matters so much and what it does to generate some
of that fundraising to help these kids.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, Hosto Cool Music. It's the twenty fifth anniversary this year.
I've been to the majority of them. There's a few
years there where I was overseas playing in Taiwan or
I was a member of the Open A's and I
couldn't get there, and I always wanted to be there,
but I've been to most of them, and again they
raise money for the foundation to be named later. They've
(03:17):
had a tremendous amount of just a list bands I
played with Eddie Vedder, Yeah, exactly. Cheap Trick is going
to be there this year. We've got Greg Hawks from
the Cars, you name them, they've been there, they want
to be a part of this.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
James Taylor. I met James Taylor through this concert as well, So.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, local, kind of a local guy, right, his wife's
from Yeah, it counts, yeah, but I mean they do
wonderful things again, raising money for underserved people in the
community the Boston area, and the money's going to just
really a bunch of folks that are doing great things
currently and the next generation is going to benefit.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
From that as well.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, the concert itself is really cool. There's a lot
of great names as you mentioned, and I'm looking at
the list for this year, as you mentioned, Cheap Trick
and Greg Hawks from the Cars. We'll talk more about
that in a moment, but tell me a little bit
about the extras you've got planned for the twenty fifth anniversary,
because This is not one you want to go mincing
in on. You want to go all in for a
big show like this.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean, as if Keep Trick and Greg Hawks wasn't enough, right.
I know, I'm going to be co EMC with Tom Karron,
who I work with quite frequently on ness and broadcasting
the Red Sox Games.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
We're going to be there, you know, with our shanigans,
our usual.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Stick love and yeah, and we're just going to continue
with the music. I think the music brings the people out,
especially a band like The Cars rock and Roll Hall
of Famers. I've already talked to a ton of people
that are like, I got my tickets, I'm going.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I can't wait. We're very, very excited.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm a little bit nervous because I typically pick up
a guitar and play with the acts. I played with
Johnny Resnick a few years ago. He was here Eddie
Veterals on stage with him. Yeah, and I still don't
know what song I'm going to be playing, so I'm
a little bit nervous. I have to figure out a
what song. B I got to learn the song and
see you basically get through the nerve.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Like when you're going to lead this whole thing, because
clearly you've got the practice going on over all the years.
When are you going to headline hot stove cool music?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, look, we're trying to raise money. I don't know
how much revenue that's going to bring in. If it's
the ret it's former Reds like Pitcher Lendi Dernro headlining
a hot stove. But any little part that I can
be a part of to help this, I'm extremely proud
to do. I've been doing it, like I said, for
years and years, and any capacity they ask me to
be a part of this, I'm more than William because
when it comes down to it, this is one of
(05:29):
my most proud accomplishments, is being invited to this year
and year out and helping these individuals that need it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It seems like this really matters to you at the core.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Why is that, you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Know, especially these days where we're seeing a lot of
cuts to vital programs for you know, the a lot
of people that really need them most.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And I'm seeing a lot of really really individuals.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That are a lot of rich individuals getting richer, and
I'm seeing a lot of horror individuals having money and
benefits taken from them that hits home for me. I'd
be lying if I said I wasn't a little ticked
off about that. So this is something that we're helping out.
We're taking it into our own hands and helping raise
money for people that really needed. When you know, who
(06:14):
knows where these funds are going to come from these days.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So then let's talk about the who what when we're why?
When we know the why, so let's talk about the
other basics here. This is going to be at the Paradise.
Tell us when and how people can get tickets, how
much someone and so forth.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Go to the website, Yeah, April twelve, Hot Stove, Cool Music,
and go to the foundation to be named later website.
The concert starts at seven pm, I believe the doors
or at six point thirty. There's going to be opening acts,
the Hot Stove All Stars, featuring Peter Gammons on guitar
and possibly vocals as well. He's been playing guitar since
the nineteen fifties and he's just a wonderful individual.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I love spending time with him.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He's a Hall of Famer as well, Hall of Fame
individual person too, and he's been a part of this
I think I believe every year that this has been happening.
So there's gonna be a lot of things going on
other than music as well. There's going to be raffles,
There's probably going to be auction something like that, so
there's different things. You can get Red Sox memborabilia, probably
Red Sox tickets. It's going to be a great team
this year, so grab those as well. It's always a
(07:12):
great time. The festivities go long in so then I
we take it to the limit as far as the
until they have to kick us out of the paradise.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And it's a great venue.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's a great venue, very very accommodating, intimate venue that
I always love going either as a hot stove musician
and see or just a fan going to check out
music beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Where can people find out more? I mean, obviously we've
given a lot of information here, but if people want
to buy tickets, they want to find out more about
the event, that whole list of musicians including you, who
are going to be performing. Where can they get that info.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's on the Foundation to be Named Later website.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
If you google Foundation to be Named Later, there is
a link that you can click where you can buy
tickets and you can see who's playing on the bill,
you can say you can see.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm assuming there are.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Some auction items as well that are going to be
up for grabs at some point during the show as well.
So if you just check out the website, give it
a Google Foundation to be named later, you'll find that link.
It's easy to get tickets. And I hope to see
a ton of people there. I know there's a lot
of people that are excited already. People are contacting me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Ready to go. I'm ready to go, but again I'm
a little bit nervous. We'll see a song out there.
Tell you guys, see this is a big, big band.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Don't overthink it too much. I think you've got this.
You're going to be fine, all right, Luddy DeNardo, you
got this. Thank you so much for coming on and
talking about this hot stove, cool music, the foundation to
be late named later, all great stuff going on here.
Have a great show.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I appreciate it. I'm looking forward. I hope you can
show up. I'm looking forward to median person there.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I hope so too. Have a safe and healthy weekend.
Please join me again next week for another edition of
the show. I'm Nicole Davis FROMBZ news Radio on iHeartRadio
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