Free is good, especially when it comes to local entertainment.
If you get a chance, check out the Sunday Evening Concerts at the Temple Ambler campus, presented by the Upper Dublin Parks and Recreation Department.
Bring lawn chairs, blankets and maybe even a picnic basket and plop yourself down – just like The Blonde Accountant and I did Sunday evening – on the Learning Center lawn on the campus. Actually, I was the one who plopped. The Blonde Accountant, a girly girl by nature, daintily placed her derriere into the lawn chair once we had staked out a place on the lawn.
This week featured Steve & Steve, who bill themselves as two “fiftysomething guys” originally from northern Jersey who started performing together in 1969 while students at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster.
One of the Steves is Steve Bernstein, a healthcare lawyer in Jenkintown. The other Steve is Steve Messigner, a public defender from just outside of Savannah, Ga. For a couple of mouthpieces, they do a pretty good job of carrying tunes from the 1960s, including those of Simon and Garfunkel, The Everly Brothers and The Beatles to name a few.
The Steves are not unfamiliar to local fans of ‘60s music as they have opened for the Beatles-era British duo Chad and Jeremy at the Keswick Theater in Glenside. And on Oct. 3, they’re scheduled to open for Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone for two shows at the Sellersville Theater 1984.
The rest of the summer concert series includes: the barbershop chorus group The Delchordians on July 26; the boogie woogie and jump blues group Melissa Martin and The Mighty Rhythm Kings on Aug. 2; and the Barbone Street Jazz Band on Aug. 9.
The concerts are free, the parking is free and all ages are welcome. If it rains, the concerts move from the lawn of the Learning center to inside the Learning Center.
Oh, and don’t forget the summer bug spray. I failed to take mine along and the Temple Ambler ant brigade took all of about 14 second to build a summer home and hold a family reunion inside my open-toed sandals. Ratfink crumb bum bugs.

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