In-N-Out has a rock band and it’s bringing a serious message to Anaheim

Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson is the caput of In-N-Out Burger, 1 of Forbes’ 400 richest people, and the bass subordinate successful a stone band.

She, on with immoderate of her colleagues, volition beryllium performing astatine House of Blues Anaheim connected Friday, Oct. 15 arsenic portion of an lawsuit called Rock 2 Freedom, which volition rise funds to combat cause addiction. Snyder-Ellingson, who is besides into resistance racing, is besides readying a car cruise successful January for different of her causes, combatting quality trafficking.

Both events volition payment the Slave 2 Nothing Foundation, acceptable up by Snyder-Ellingson and her hubby Sean Ellingson, successful 2016. The instauration raises wealth and directs it to organizations that combat some substance maltreatment and quality trafficking. In 2021, it made 96 grants totaling $1.7 cardinal to nonprofit organizations successful the 7 states wherever In-N-Out has restaurants, according to a quality release.

This weekend’s performance falls successful National Substance Abuse Awareness Month, January’s car cruise volition hap during National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

“We’re focused connected 2 antithetic things, but they truly bash overlap a lot,” she said successful a telephone interrogation this week from her Glendora home, which isn’t acold from wherever the institution was founded by her grandparents successful 1948.

Snyder-Ellingson came up with the ideas for some events, according to Todd Gorton, assemblage engagement section manager for the In-N-Out Burger Foundations.

“She’s incredibly originative and loves to find caller ways to rise consciousness and to link people,” helium said successful a abstracted telephone interview. “Rock ‘n’ rotation conscionable seems to marque sense.”

Rock 2 Freedom volition beryllium successful the House of Blues’ main country and Foundation Room. It volition see a show by In-N-Out’s “family band,” .48 Special, with Snyder-Ellingson connected bass and her hubby connected pb guitar. Most of the different members are from In-N-Out management, and their rehearsals are built astir their enactment schedules.

“We each enactment full-time, truthful we cram it successful erstwhile we can,” Snyder-Ellingson said successful a telephone interview. “Typically we bash ‘90s alternative, classical rock, immoderate newer stuff.

“When I accidental newer, I mean the past 20 years,” she added.

As good arsenic philharmonic era, the group’s repertoire has a absorption successful presumption of its content.

“Almost each opus has immoderate benignant of necktie to substance maltreatment oregon drugs successful immoderate way, truthful it’s beauteous relevant,” said Snyder-Ellingson.

Law featuring Jakob Nowell performs connected the Speakeasy signifier during the BeachLife euphony festival successful Redondo Beach connected Sunday, September 12, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

The different bands connected the measure volition stock the message, she said. They are the Long Beach hard stone set LAW, fronted by Jakob Nowell and the alt-rock set HU3M3N.

In-N-Out restaurants person canisters connected their counters truthful that walk-in customers tin donate, but the House of Blues performance is simply a unsocial mode of reaching retired to the public, according to Snyder-Ellingson.

“A batch of our events person been low-key, wherever the nationalist hasn’t been made alert of them,” she said.

Snyder-Ellingson has a precocious illustration successful the concern satellite and precocious made Forbes magazine’s database of 400 wealthiest Americans for 2021. She doesn’t bash a batch of idiosyncratic appearances but is known to the unit of astir 370 In-N-Out Restaurants. In June, she was the top-ranking edifice person successful a survey of employees by jobs website Glassdoor.

Employees announcement erstwhile she enters a restaurant.

“Sometimes 1 idiosyncratic notices and past it starts trickling done the staff,” she said. “They effort to each casually look without looking obvious, but they inactive look obvious.”

Rock 2 Freedom

Where: House of Blues Anaheim, Downtown Disney District, 400 W. Disney Way No. 337, Anaheim

When: 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15. Doors unfastened astatine 6:30 p.m.

COVID-19 restrictions: Clear container argumentation successful place. Attendees indispensable supply impervious of a antagonistic COVID-19 trial effect wrong 72 hours of the lawsuit oregon afloat COVID-19 vaccination. houseofblues.com/safety-guidelines

Tickets: $100

Information: events.innout.com