Benefit for Fit Kids at The Guild will feature Los Lobos
Fit Kids, a Menlo Park-based 501©3 that provides structured physical fitness activities to underserved youth, announced that tickets are on sale for the non-profit’s benefit concert featuring Grammy-award-winning rock band Los Lobos. The event will take place at Menlo Park’s Guild Theatre on Thursday, February 29, 2024.
“Thanks to one of our board members, we were able to connect with Los Lobos and share the mission of Fit Kids,” said Ashley Hunter (pictured below), who founded Fit Kids in January, 2011. “The band members, who hail from East Los Angeles and have spent over five decades dedicating their time on and off stage to helping others in their community, were inspired to hear that our youth programs — focused on physical activity, movement, and mindfulness — reach children in 62 locations in L.A., including five in East L.A., and 135 programs throughout the U.S. and Mexico.”
Los Lobos rose to international stardom with their version of Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba” in 1987. They will bring their chart-topping music influenced by rock, country, Tex-Mex, Zydeco, R&B, folk, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, norteños, and boleros to the Guild Theatre for this special concert.
“We are honored to be participating in the benefit for Fit Kids,” said Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. “There are few things closer to our hearts than supporting early childhood development and health, and Fit Kids does an extraordinary job helping underserved kids all across North America by funding and implementing mental and physical health activities, particularly in areas where budget cuts and lack of access limit or prohibit such programs. We urge you to join us for a fun evening of music supporting this wonderful cause.”
“Today, in America, kids are not getting enough physical activity,” said Ashley, a Menlo Park resident. “Youth sports programs are increasingly expensive; P.E. programs are getting cut across the United States. And many kids don’t have neighborhoods with safe parks to play in. Fit Kids wants to close that opportunity gap and ensure all kids have access to healthy activity programs. The Los Lobos benefit concert will help to fund the Fit Kids’ mission.”
Photo of Ashley Hunter from the Fit Kid website by Annie Barnett
