HUNTINGTON -- Since it has been so hot you could probably cook your own Pronto Pup on the blacktop at Camden Park, it's a great to hit the family-fun park when the sun starts to go down.

Starting this weekend, there is an even better reason than just cruising into the 30 acre amusement park for Starlight prices.

Camden Park, and its co-sponsor WOWK-TV, fires up the latest edition of its Hot Summer Nights Concert Series beginning tonight and Saturday with the New Jersey-based duo Ernie and Neal, who've played their rocked-up kids music everywhere from The White House (for the Easter Egg Roll) to a slew of Philadelphia-based museum gigs.

Show times are 7 p.m.

Based near Philadelphia, Pa., Ernie and Neal call their act "Music for the Young Mind," entertaining America's children as well as the child in all of us by playing many different genres of music, including rock, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, bluegrass and more.

Together since 2000, the duo has put out five CDs and traveled all over the East Coast playing its music.

Hot Summer Nights continues each Friday and Saturday through Aug. 16, and features such in-coming acts as the Two Man Gentleman Band on Aug. 1-2, Little Bit of Bluegrass on Aug. 8-9, and The Mad Tea Party on Aug. 15-16.

Admission to the park for the entire day is $20.99 and $14.99 for kids.

Regular hours on Friday and Saturdays are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Starlight admission to the park begins at 5 p.m., for $10.99 until the park closes at 10 p.m.

Park owner and manager Jack Boylin said they waited until after the Big Dipper concert with The Coasters last weekend, to kick off the popular weekend concert series.

"The Friday and Saturday hours are extended and we were looking for another attraction to have," Boylin said. "There is a little more time to do something special when you're closing later, and it's also something for us to promote. We're pretty heavily promotion-driven."

Boylin said they're excited about the lineup that has a little bit of everything including the eclectic Two Man Gentlemen Band, which spent two years as full-time street performers in New York's Central Park.

"I think it's going to be a cool series and I think a little more accessible to a younger audience this time around," Boylin said of Hot Summer Nights. "We tried to get something with a little bit of a twist. It kind of goes with what we do around here. We want it to stand out."

For more information, go online at www.camdenpark.com or call 1-866-8CAMDEN.

Go online at www.herald- dispatch.com to see photo galleries from Camden Park.

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