If you were following the vibrant Philly rock music scene in the 1980s, you can’t help but recall Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers. They, along with the Hooters, were among the city’s most exciting exports, with two albums for Columbia Records, a No. 1 hit (“I’m Not Your Man”) and a glowing profile in Rolling Stone.

And don’t get Tommy Conwell wrong — It was all a bit of a head rush, but if anything, the fact that he’s still playing music today is even more fun.

“There’s no pressure now,” he explained. “Expectations are not so high. It’s all like dividends from an investment we made a long time ago.”

Conwell continues to play with his old bandmates from the Young Rumblers from time to time — as witness a recent gig at a Penn’s Landing festival — but musically, he’s continued to reinvent himself.

In the 1990s, he fronted a popular band called Tommy Conwell and the Little Kings, and he’s performed solo and with an Irish band Reilly’s Daughter (featuring Chestnut Hill’s Jimmy Reilly), but more recently he’s on stage with a new band called Tommy Conwell & the Dirty Pints, which promises to get Pastorius Park concert-goers up on their feet and singing along next Wednesday, July 22.

Conwell bills the Pints as primarily a Jersey shore band, with a repertoire designed to stimulate audience involvement. It’s a musical smorgasbord. If you like Paddy Rock tunes like “Wild Rover,” “I’ll Tell Me Ma” and “Whiskey in the Jar,” you’ll hear plenty. But there’s more: several of his own tunes, many old Rumblers rockers, along with popular songs people expect to hear in a bar on a sizzling weekend down the shore. (The band’s most frequent weekend gigs are at Oar House Pub in Sea Isle City. They come back north after Labor Day and are booked through mid-November.)

Everybody knows those songs, said Conwell, who has lived on Benezet Street and Ardleigh Street over the years. “You can sing along to them. You don’t have to, but you can,” he explains. “It’s an amazing thing. I don’t really remember that when I was a kid. I guess I was too cool for everything back when I was in my 20s, but nowadays, kids want to sing along. It’s a good part of our culture to have this canon of songs that everybody recognizes as party songs, like “Sweet Caroline,” for example. We’ve all heard it a million times and that doesn’t matter. We’re just playing a bunch of covers and having a good time. Basically what we’re doing is celebrating together.”

As for the name, “Dirty Pints,” Conwell said he just likes the word, “pints.” The word, “dirty” was suggested by his drummer. “And so it was,” he said. “It doesn’t have any real meaning. It just kind of sounds cool.”

If it seems like there was never a time when he wasn’t celebrating with his music, that’s only partly true. When his kids were young, it was difficult to justify playing clubs and coming home late, night after night. From 1996 to 2001, he taught third grade at Enfield Elementary School. It was, he says, a great experience and he is grateful to have had it. Overall, he was in semi-retirement for 15 years. But as the kids grew older, music beckoned once again, and he eagerly, happily returned to the stage.

“It just seemed to make sense that I could start playing more,” Conwell said. “And so, now I’m playing a lot and it’s nice. It’s paying a couple of bills and it’s fun. It’s been a while, but people don’t forget if they liked your music when they were younger. So, I’m always just amazed that there’s an audience — that I still have an audience. I’m always grateful. I cherish it more now. When you’re just coming up, you don’t know. You’re young and you don’t know if this is going to last forever. With the benefit of age or experience, I know how precious it is to have an audience.”

Independence Blue Cross is sponsoring the Pints’ concert. Temple Health-Chestnut Hill Hospital sponsors the entire Pastorius Park concert series. The July 22 show begins at 7:30 p.m., and it’s free. Pastorius Park is at 8117 Roanoke St.