Jim and Kim Lampl will be the featured performers at the First Friday Concert Nov. 1 at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1000 Michigan Ave. La Porta. The event starts at 12:10 p,m.

Jim attended Interlochen Center for the Arts before graduation from Valparaiso High School, earned his bachelors degree in education and theater from Northwestern University and his masters at Valparaiso University. He taught English, Speech and Drama at La Porte High School for 44 years, and directed more than 80 plays and musicals at the high school theatre. Jim brought music to the classroom and recorded a DVD entitled “Across the Curriculum” that he left behind for his colleagues after his retirement in 2013.

He has appeared in numerous plays and musicals in La Porte, Michigan City and Valparaiso. His favourite musical groups and listening genres are the Everly Brothers, the Kingston Trio. Rodgers and Hammerstein Musicals and Snooky Lanson's "Your Hit Parade."

Kim is a retired nurse who loves all kinds of music and singing as well as playing piano and trombone. She sang with Bryan Barr in South Bend as a back-up singer from 2009-2015. Becoming more involved in theater the past few years, she has played in the ensemble at La Porte Little Theatre and had her first speaking part this summer at Dunes Summer Theatre.

The two will sing solo and duet pieces which will feature songs from folk to Broadway. There is no charge for the concert, which lasts 30 minutes, but a free-will offering box is available. People are encouraged to bring their lunches and enjoy the concert. The church is handicap accessible from the Harrison Street entrance.