ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS:Blog
Arhoolie Foundation Receives NEA Grant to Increase Public Access
It’s our great honor to announce that we have received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to continue our work of creating curated...
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Arhoolie Foundation Receives Grant Award from California Humanities
We are happy to share that we have received a Humanities For All Project Grant award for Rumbo A California—An Exhibition of the Strachwitz Frontera Collection....
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A 2019 Year End Letter From Chris
December 19, 2019 Dear Friends, It has been a busy year for the Arhoolie Foundation. We head into 2020 with lots of plans to continue...
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Photos from the 2019 Arhoolie Awards Concert
The Arhoolie Foundation held its second annual Arhoolie Awards and Benefit Concert on November 22nd at The Chapel in San Francisco. It was a great night...
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2019 Arhoolie Awards and Benefit Concert
Second Annual Arhoolie Awards and Benefit Concert Friday, November 22, 2019 Doors 7:30 pm, Show 8 pm The Chapel 777 Valencia St., S.F. CA 94110 /...
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Remembering Manuel Peña (1942 – 2019)
The Arhoolie Foundation’s good friend and colleague Dr. Manuel Heriberto Peña passed away on March 9th, 2019. Here’s a remembrance from Arhoolie Foundation’s president Chris Strachwitz....
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A Year-End Letter from Chris Strachwitz
Dear Friends of the Arhoolie Foundation, In light of the horrific tragedies which have befallen so many fellow Californians as well as people around the world...
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Photos From Our Benefit Concert and Arhoolie Awards
Thank you to everyone who made Bridging the Blues a wonderful and exciting event. Our inaugural Arhoolie Awards and benefit concert with Taj Mahal and Fantastic...
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The 2018 Arhoolie Awards
On October 13th, The Arhoolie Foundation presented the first annual Arhoolie Awards onstage at our benefit concert featuring Taj Mahal and Fantastic Negrito. This award recognizes...
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Arhoolie Foundation to Digitize Oster Field Recordings
Between 1956 and 1963, Dr. Harry Oster, professor of English at LSU Baton Rouge, roamed the back roads of Louisiana in search of traditional music. A...
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