They Could Not (keep him in the grave)

A 78 year old retired Pittsburgh public school music teacher who goes by Frank Lavelle  serenaded the public with “They could not [keep him in the grave,” popularized by Sandi Patty and other praise songs Friday evening, the first day of the city’s arts festival. Lavelle, who looks and sounds more than a little like  the older Frank Sinatra , regularly performs at nursing homes. And in the summer months, when he’s so inclined as he was Friday evening, wheeling a cart bearing a powerful Bose amplifier, he broadcasts religious gratitude in his sonorous voice through the Pittsburgh cultural district. Watch video here.