Rehoboth Beach’s historic tradition of Piping Out the Summer on Labor Day with a joyous musical parade on the Boardwalk will again be led by the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society and Museum.

Revelers with musical instruments of any and all varieties are asked to gather on the Boardwalk at 6 p.m., Labor Day, Sept. 7, in front of the Henlopen Hotel. Once all are ready, the ensemble will play its way down the Boardwalk to Rehoboth Avenue. The historical society will provide kazoos as long as supplies last for people without their own instruments.

Founded by former Henlopen Hotel bandleader and trombonist Sammy Ferro in the 1950s, the original Piping Out lasted four decades, until 1999. It was revived in 2019.

Ferro’s orchestra played for dances held at the old Henlopen Hotel. After the last dance of the summer on Labor Day, Ferro would take his band to the boards, followed by his audience, and lead a spontaneous musical parade down the Boardwalk to the vicinity of Rehoboth Avenue.