GLOW, named for a glow-in-the-dark Gumby relative named Glow Man portrayed by band producer Mark Sutherland, will stage the last party of the summer at Heritage Green in Sandy Springs on Sunday.

Concerts by the Springs series director Christy Nickles, the special events director at the nonprofit Heritage Sandy Springs, said the Labor Day weekend event will be bittersweet.

“It’s always sad when the concerts end [each year],” she said. “This series will be hard to top. It’s been a fun one. We’ve had beach music, smooth hits, the Rat Pack big band sound, an instrumental band and now we have the party band.”

Ms. Nickles said a feature of the 2010 series has been its audience participation, which guitarist and violinist Robert Taylor said will continue as the band celebrates its third anniversary.

“We anticipate getting kids on the lawn to dance the Hokey-Pokey,” he said.
While still a kid himself, Taylor, who was born 95 percent blind, began his musical career on the family farm near Oklahoma City.

 “My earliest memory is of sitting in her lap while she played and sang,” he said about his mother, Lynda Miller, a pianist and opera singer. “I was playing the piano before I could talk. That is truly my first language.”

Another lifelong performer is the band’s vocalist, Lina Kawar, a Lebanese native who grew up in Cyprus and launched her singing career with an American hit.
“The time I really started singing in front of people was in high school,” said Ms. Kawar.

Her Motown number was cut from a too-long recital but reinstated at the last minute, converting a high school stage into a springboard for international opportunity.

“Everybody was walking away, but when I started singing, they all started coming back,” Ms. Kawar said.

“I joined the music society. I got to do the Eurovision song contest three times as a backing singer. Three songs that I’ve written were in a TV movie with Bo Derek, called ‘Life in the Balance.’”

Sunday’s set list doesn’t include tunes from that 2001 film, but it will feature a Sandy Springs premiere.

“We will be unveiling our new 1980s rock medley,” Taylor said.

Also in the band are Brittany Shewbridge and Tim Tice on vocals, David Shaver on keyboards, Michael Ahmann on drums and Mike Hale on bass.

If you go

o Who: GLOW
o What: Concerts by the Springs series
o When: 7 p.m. Sunday
o Where: Sandy Springs Society Entertainment Lawn at Heritage Green, 6110 Bluestone Road
o Admission: free
o Information: (404) 851-9111 ext. 203 or visit www.heritagesandysprings.org