Los Lobos may be an LA institution by now, but every so often—well, more often than not—they like to do something a little different. They started out as a band from the in-between places, finding a spot to call home between punk and rock and folk and even more idiosyncratic styles of music. But in 2005, they put out their Acoustic en Vivo album, which (just as you’d think) was a live Los Lobos set of traditional and original music cut back to its barest roots. Now they’re doing the first of a select few California appearances at the Cerritos Center in just the same way, and if it’s anything like the album, they’ll be presenting Lobos classics and Lobos obscurities in between the kind of folk songs you might catch your parents singing now and then.
Fri., Jan. 11, 8 p.m., 2013
