Los Lobos will mark its fiftieth anniversary with a present at its East L.A. highschool – Orange County Register
After 50 years of placing out music and hitting the highway, East Los Angeles band Los Lobos are going again to highschool as a part of their milestone anniversary tour.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 16 for the fiftieth anniversary exhibits at loslobos.org.
The 12-stop nationwide tour will kick off in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Aug. 12, and can ultimately land the band at The Paramount in Los Angeles on Nov. 21, the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood on Nov. 22 and at James A. Garfield Excessive College’s The Escalante Auditorium, the band’s alma mater, for the final native present on Nov. 25.
“Garfield Excessive is our alma mater and the place all of us met. It stays an enormous a part of who we’re. There’ll at all times be a particular place in our hearts for Garfield Excessive. We could also be wolves, however we’re additionally Bulldogs for all times,” mentioned Louie Perez, Jr., the band’s guitarist and percussionist in a press launch.
Los Lobo’s lineup contains Perez Jr., vocalist David Hidalgo, guitarist Cesar Rosas, and bass participant Conrad Lozano, who all received collectively in 1973. Saxophonist and keyboardist Steve Berlin joined the band in 1984.
Influenced by their Chicano heritage, Mexican people music, R&B in addition to punk, the rock band has gained 4 Grammy Awards, together with “Finest Americana Album,” for the 2021 launch, “Native Sons.”
Since forming, Los Lobos have saved a busy schedule, performing greater than 100 exhibits a 12 months for 5 many years whereas recording 17 studio albums, a number of dwell LPs and compilations.
One of many largest moments of the band’s profession got here in 1987 after they recorded eight songs for the 12-song soundtrack for the biopic movie “La Bamba,” concerning the life and dying of Chicano rock star Ritchie Valens. The band’s cowl of the title observe topped the U.S. charts.
