May is typically the time the Glendale Summer Band starts doin’ its thing.
The 100-member strong volunteer concert band debuted in 1966, and among its signature annual offerings is the five-week free concert series at the E. Lowell Rogers Amphitheatre in Murphy Park in downtown Glendale every Thursday night in June.
The band goes back so far it even pre-dates the amphitheatre named in honor of its founding director. Until the downtown facility was built for the band, they played at O’Neil Park, which was built in 1961.
