Los Lobos performs during a benefit concert for the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium on Saturday, May 7, 2022. Band members will return to Riverside Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, for the Dia de Los Lobos event at the Fox Performing Arts Center. (File photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Next month, members of Los Lobos will take part in an event featuring a mix of music, documentary previews and storytelling at the Fox Performing Arts Center in downtown Riverside.
On Thursday, Nov. 9, Dia de Los Lobos will celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary and its role in California’s historic Chicano movement, a news release from The Fox Riverside Theater Foundation states.
The four-time-Grammy-award-winning band was founded in 1973 in East Los Angeles.
Guests will get sneak peeks of the upcoming Los Lobos documentary film, the release states, as well as hear music from band members David Hidalgo, Louie Perez and Cesar Rosas, and stories from them and the filmmakers. The event was conceived by Anthony Small, an executive producer of the documentary who grew up in Riverside.
“There is so much in Riverside that aligns with what we’re doing in the film, in terms of history, art, and culture, and we are privileged to present this event at the historic Fox,” Small said in the release.
The event is a collaboration between the Fox Riverside Theater Foundation, Native Sons Films and the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture.
Before Dia de Los Lobos, a morning outreach event for as many as 1,500 students in middle school through college will feature documentary excerpts, as well as commentary and storytelling from co-directors Doug Blush and Piero F. Giunti, the release states. A smaller event at the Cheech center will allow select students to attend an art discussion with Blush, Giunti and Perez.
This program, which is closed to the public, is supported by nonprofit California Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“These kids are going to have a rare look inside some wonderful, creative, and entertaining minds and, for some of them, a look at new perspectives,” said Maria Smith, president of the foundation’s board of directors, said in the release.
Doors for Dia De Los Lobos open at 6 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at riversidelive.com or Live Nation.
To make arrangements for students, including those in nontraditional education settings, to attend the morning event, email cwright@riversideca.gov.
