“Nice to see the sun, huh?” asked a cheerful Todd Meredith, after greeting his audience seated around Joe Pop’s Shore Bar on a sultry Sunday afternoon with Beatles classic “Here Comes the Sun.”

Meredith, who considers himself a musician (guitar, vocals), actor and tribute artist, is known all along LBI and in other tourist pockets of the world as the front man representing Buddy Holly in The Rave-Ons touring act, covering ’50s rock ’n’ roll hits.