BEAUMONT, Texas — Rock and Roll of fame nominee and three-time Grammy award winner Los Lobos is scheduled to be in Beaumont this fall.
The band is slated to perform at the Jefferson Theater on Thursday, September 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets will be on sale starting Wednesday, May 1 at 10 a.m. on Ticketmaster.com.
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The Mexican-American band from East Louisiana is known for honoring their Mexican background by blending rock and roll with Tex-Mex as well as blues, zydeco and folk music.
From a Discover Beaumont news release...
Three-time Grammy Award-winners and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees Los Lobos will perform at the Jefferson Theatre, Thursday, September 19 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 1 at 10:00 a.m. and can be purchased on ticketmaster.com.
Los Lobos are on their tour celebrating 45 years of high-quality American music. These shows feature an acoustic set followed by an electric set that covers music from the last four decades.
A Mexican-American band from East L.A., Los Lobos are a legendary rock band who honor their Mexican background by flavoring their rock and roll sound with Tex-Mex, Cumbia, Boleros and norteños, while also inflecting their music with American Blues, Zydeco, Country and Folk. All incredible instrumentalists, Los Lobos have been entertaining audiences since 1973 and, in 2011, were awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Back in 2003, when Los Lobos was celebrating the 30th Anniversary of their humble beginnings as a garage band in East L.A., Rolling Stone summed up their distinctive, diverse, freewheeling fusion of rock, blues, soul and Mexican folk music: “This is what happens when five guys create a magical sound, then stick together…to see how far it can take them.” Originally called Los Lobos del Este (de Los Angeles), the group came together from three separate units. Lead vocalist/guitarist Hidalgo, whose arsenal includes accordion, percussion, bass, keyboards, melodic, drums, violin, and banjo, met Perez at Garfield High in East LA and started a garage band. Rosas, who had his own group, and Lozano launched a power trio. “But we all hung out because we were friends and making music was just the natural progression of things,” says Perez, the band’s drummer. “Like if you hang around a barbershop long enough, you’re going to get a haircut.”
Perez, once called their powerhouse mix of music “the soundtrack of the barrio.” Four decades, 3 Grammys -11 nominations, the global success of “La Bamba” and thousands of rollicking performances across the globe later, Los Lobos is surviving quite well -- and still jamming with the same raw intensity as they had when they began in that garage in 1973.
The critically acclaimed Kiko album was released in the late spring of ’92, it was embraced by fans and hailed by critics as Los Lobos’ defining moment, the album that put Los Lobos back on the innovation track. The album, wrote All Music Guide, “demonstrated the breadth of their sonic ambitions.” Comments the band’s Cesar Rosas, “With that album we didn’t want to be tied down to all the conventional ways of recording, so we started experimenting and making up sounds.” That is where they remain today.
A rare example of longevity in a volatile music world that stresses style over substance, Los Lobos’ lineup has remained uninterrupted since 1984, when Berlin joined original members Pérez, Hidalgo, Rosas and Lozano, each of whom had been there since the beginning in 1973.
"This is what happens when five guys create a magical sound, then stick together for over 30 years to see how far it can take them,” wrote Rolling Stone, and indeed, Los Lobos is a band that continually reboots itself and expands its scope with each passing year, while never losing sight of where they came from. Through sheer camaraderie and respect for one another’s musicality, they’ve continued to explore who Los Lobos is and what they have to offer, without succumbing to the burnout that plagues so many other bands that stick it out for any considerable length of time. Their influence is vast, yet they remain humble, centered and dedicated to their craft. Each new recording they make moves Los Lobos into another new dimension while simultaneously sounding like no one else in the world but Los Lobos. As All About Jazz raved, “The genius of Los Lobos resides in their innate ability to find the redemptive power of music, no matter the style they choose to play.”
“We’re brothers and we all equally recognize that,” says Rosas. “That’s what keeps us going, knowing that we need to help each other, and we need to get through this, and we work well together. And we keep it real.”
Their debut album was called Just Another Band from East L.A., but they’ve since repeatedly disproven that title—Los Lobos isn’t “just another” anything. “We’re incredibly lucky,” says Steve Berlin. So are we—lucky to have Los Lobos.
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