The greater Austin community should have expected as much after Dan Bissen died.

Just like he and his father before him stood behind the appliances they sold at the family’s store, Dan Bissen still stands posthumously behind music.

The third annual Dan Bissen Memorial Bash will be held 2 p.m. Sunday at the Paramount Theatre.

There may be someone — a visitor, perhaps — who does not recognize the Bissen name.

Suffice to say, Sunday’s Bash is about music.

“This year’s Bash will again feature many family groups,” said Margo Bissen, widow of Dan.

Family groups like Dan and Margo Bissen’s children.

Today, the Bissen Family Singers include Margo and sons, Ray, Tony and Tim, and daughters, Molly and Mary.

Dan was a member, too, before his death.

The Bissen Family Singers performed everywhere. Individually and as duos, trios or quartets, they also performed at special family events, including funerals.

Dan Bissen, along with sister and brother-in-law, Kathy and Gary Grant, made their living at Bissen TV and Appliance on Austin’s east side and later the Sterling Shopping Center.

They weren’t the first family to share their musical talents; nor the last.

Neither will the Bissen Family Singers may the only performing group Sunday.

“The concert offers something for everyone,” said Margo Bissen, a Sumner Elementary School music teacher. “Vocal and instrumental ensembles will perform many styles of music with a little fun and frivolity mixed in for good measure.”

The program is really a homage to the Austin Public Schools extended musical family. Teachers perform with students, teens with their parents, brothers with sisters.

A featured attraction at Sunday’s Bash will be an instrumental ensemble performing an energetic Irish dance.

Continuing the tradition started at the first Memorial Bash event, all performers will take the stage for the final number.

All proceeds from Sunday’s concert will be used to enhance a music scholarship fund and to benefit the Paramount Theatre.

All cash donations are tax-deductible and can be sent to Music Boosters of Austin, Attention: Dan Bissen Memorial Bash Scholarship.

The original Bissen Bash was held in 2006 and attracted the largest audience in the history of the Paramount Theatre.

Dan Bissen’s battle with brain cancer was well-known to the community he served as a successful businessman for so long, fostered through a variety of community betterment projects and entertained at so many events with his wife and their family.

Tickets to the Dan Bissen Memorial Bash are $10 for adults and $5 for students.

For more information, call the Paramount Theatre box office at 434-0934.