Los Lobos to Perform to perform at the White House to Celebrate Hispanic Musical Heritage

Mexican-American band Los Lobos will participate at the "In Performance at the White House: Fiesta Latina." This is a concert hosted by United States President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama on the South Lawn of the White House that will be broadcast by PBS.

The sixty-minute program, to be taped live by WETA Washington, D.C., on October 13, will celebrate Hispanic musical heritage and airs on the final day of National Hispanic Heritage Month, October 15, 2009 at 8 p.m. ET, on PBS stations nationwide. (Check local listings.) It will also be broadcast on Telemundo, the American Spanish-language television network, on Sunday, October 18 at 6 p.m. ET, and on V-me, the national Spanish language network partnered with public television, on Friday, December 25.

The program, part of the WETA "In Performance at the White House" series, will include Los Lobos, Marc Anthony, Jimmy Smits, Pete Escovedo, Gloria Estefan, José Feliciano, George Lopez, Thalía, Tito "El Bambino", and the bachata music group Aventura, with Sheila E. leading the house band. Further talent information may be announced in the coming days.

"In Performance at the White House" has been produced by WETA since 1978 and spans every administration since President Carter’s. The series began with an East Room recital by the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Since then, "In Performance at the White House" has embraced virtually every genre of American performance: pop, country, gospel, jazz, blues, theatre and dance among them. The series was created to showcase the rich fabric of American culture in the setting of the nation’s most famous home.

Buy Los Lobos’ recordings:

• In North America: The Town and the City, One Time One Night: Live Recordings, Vol. 1, Kiko, La Pistola y El Corazon, Los Lobos Goes Disney, How Will the Wolf Survive?, By the Light of the Moon, Acoustic En Vivo, The Neighborhood, Colossal Head, Good Morning Aztlán, Papa’s Dream, This Time
• Europe: How Will the Wolf Survive?, The Town and the City, This Time, La Pistola y el Corazón, Colossal Head, Live at the Fillmore

The evening concert will be streamed live by the White House on www.WhiteHouse.gov and available to stream on the series website on pbs.org after the broadcast.