We caught up with former tennis pro Patrick McEnroe and singer, actress and writer Melissa Errico, both with big events coming up in the Hamptons in the next couple of weeks. Errico will be performing her “Melissa Errico Sings the Summer” concert at the Southampton Arts Center on Sunday, September 1, while McEnroe will be busy at the mega JMTP Pro Am fundraiser with his brother John on Saturday, August 24. Here we talk about swooning songs, summer romance, the Johnny Mac Tennis Project, and “trains, teens and automobiles.”

Melissa, tell us about your upcoming concert on September 1. 

We are going to bring a summer show with lots of summer sounds. Swinging, silly, sexy, beautiful, swooning songs from Irving Berlin’s “How Deep is The Ocean?,” a Latin-tinged Cole Porter from one of my Broadway musicals, to Joni Mitchell’s great summer tune, “Night Ride Home.” Always some Legrand at his most Jobim-like (they were good friends!) and Sondheim — my two musical mentors — and filled with American Songbook classics everyone will recognize played by a crackerjack jazz trio. I think of every song as a story in itself. No art form is more condensed than the storytelling of a song. Athletic and intellectual, and a whole world told in 3-5 minutes.