Talented triplets performing on stage is an entertainment headlining tradition.

After a pandemic hiatus for the 2020-21 season, the Lakeshore Community Concert series has returned for 2021-22 with six already sold-out concerts scheduled September through May.

Kicking off the lineup in the spotlight is the talented singing trio Taylor Red on Sept. 15 in the Munster High School auditorium. The country music Taylor Sisters, who hail from Wade, Mississippi, are Nika, Natalie and Nicole, who celebrated their 30th birthdays on March 18 and launched their performance career a decade ago in 2011. In addition to sharing vocals and harmonizing, these triplets play keyboards, guitar, violin, banjo, drums and mandolin.

Lakeshore Community Concerts has a history dating back to 1947, created with a mission for special concert programming in Northwest Indiana launched during the post-World War II years, as a way for affordable and entertaining stage offerings. The organization is nonprofit and entirely volunteer. Originally launched as Hammond Community Concerts, over the years, the concerts have been held at Hammond Tech High School and then Morton High School before Munster High School became the most recent home.

Even though the Munster Auditorium has a seating capacity of 1,000, I’m told by the concert organizers they have had to limit concerts to half capacity allowing for safe spacing of patrons. For more details, visit www.lakeshoreconcerts.org.

I’ve been writing about “triple threat” talented triplets for decades in my columns.

In July 2011, I told readers about the singers and musicians of the group Alizma aka “the blond triplets from Poland,” comprised of sisters Aleksandra, Izabela and Monika, who are 35 years old now, and first shot to fame after they appeared on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” in 2009.

I first met them when they performed at the July 17, 2011, grand opening of the Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, Illinois. Aleksandra is the oldest by three minutes from sister Izabela, and six minutes older than Monika. By age 6, they had already been enrolled in music school in Zagan, Poland, to study violin and music theory while playing in the school’s orchestra. Today, under the management of Farrington Productions, they are favorite headliners in Las Vegas and have toured Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany and Brazil.

To date, The Del Rubio Triplets still remain my all-time favorite three-for-one, notable fame stage names. Milly was the last of the cotton-candy hair-do sisters who were always happily shoulder-to-shoulder with one another. Milly died a in 2011 in California after a brief bout with pneumonia just weeks before her 90th birthday. As for the other two sisters, Eadie Del Rubio died in December 1996 and Elena Del Rubio in March 2001.

They were born as The Boyd Triplets, but opted for their stage name to be Del Rubio, from the color they dyed their hair, since the word “rubio” means “blond” in Spanish.

Though they had been performing together for decades, the sisters found new fame after Grammy winning songwriter Allee Willis “rediscovered” them in 1985 and their personal appearances as a “curiosity act” put them in demand after appearing on Pee-Wee Herman’s TV shows and holiday specials, warbling tunes like “These Boots are Made for Walking” and “Winter Wonderland.” Sporting their identical thick eyeshadow, fluffy matching hairdos, white go-go boots and fond of costumes with dangling western fringe, they easily gained much attention and publicity.

Their biggest “later career hit” was an acoustic-guitar cover version of the song “Whip It” by the pop music rock group Devo. During their latter career, they appeared as themselves on “Married... with Children” (as aunts of Peggy), “Full House,” “The Golden Girls” (singing “The Neutron Dance”) and “Night Court.” In the late 1980s they were even featured in a McDonald’s fast food advertisement, and David Letterman counted them among his favorite entertainingly odd interviews on his “Late Night With David Letterman” chatfest.

Philip Potempa is a journalist, published author and the director of marketing at Theatre at the Center.

pmpotempa@comhs.org