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LEHIGH VALLEY WEATHER

South Whitehall couple give driveway concerts

Since Robin and Jim Seip couldn’t perform before a live audience as they have for the past 40 years at West Park, Cedar Beach, the senior center or other senior audiences and parties in the Lehigh Valley, their neighbors suggested they perform in front of their home.

Since April, they have been performing in their driveway every Saturday afternoon, weather permitting.

The concert is presented on Sunday, if it rains on Saturday.

Neighbors bring out their chairs and sit on the lawns or curbside.

Folks drive, walk or jog by and stop, sit in their cars or bring their folding chairs out of the cars or just sit on the curb to hear a lovely concert for a brief time of relaxation.

Robin sings and writes parodies of some of the popular songs.

She has written about 10 parodies, the most popular is sung to the tune of “Sweet Caroline,” called “Self Quarantined.”

Robin and Jim sing together while he plays the keyboard. Everyone sings along.

A sample of songs they perform are “Return to Sender,” “Summer Lovin’,” “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime” (Dean Martin), “My Guy,” “I Love You More Today Than Yesterday” and “We’ve Only Just Begun.”

Robin sang “Peg O’ My Heart” from the 1913 Zeigfield Follies and then her own version called “COVID-19: Please Go Away So We Can Go Out and Play.”

Robin Sands Seip is the daughter of the late Lehigh Valley favorite Jay Sands, who was a disc jockey with 790-WAEB. Robin and Jim’s daughter Jamie Schwind, lives in Bethlehem. Son Brent is a drummer in Coplay. Jason is a base player and music teacher in North Carolina, and Tyler is a saxophone player and a rocket scientist for Space X in Seattle, Wash. The Seips would like to begin performing regularly again as the Lehigh Valley goes from yellow to green.

But until then, they will be in the driveway at 3641 Catherine Ave., South Whitehall, at 3 p.m. Saturdays. There will be a sign in the driveway.

PRESS PHOTO BY ANITA HIRSCHRobin Sands Seip and Jim Seip set up their equipment for a Saturday afternoon concert live in their driveway. They have been entertaining live in the driveway for nine weeks.