Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Artful Lives: Louie PĂ©rez and Los Lobos telling the stories of East LA
Description: The 2022 National Heritage Fellows have been recently named and weâre celebrating that and kicking off our âArtful Livesâ series by revisiting my interview with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Louie PĂ©rez whose music with Los Lobos has deep roots in his neighborhood of East LA. The interview is a wonderful snapshot of Los Lobosâ fifty year journey as well as the beauty and strength of culture grown in community, a core principle of the concept of Artful Lives and of the National Heritage Award*.* Â Louie PĂ©rez is a great story-teller and in this podcast he discusses the creation of Los Lobo...