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New Cajun and Zydeco Audio Interviews with Clifton Chenier, Eddie Shuler, and Moise Robin

New Cajun and Zydeco Audio Interviews with Clifton Chenier, Eddie Shuler, and Moise Robin

We’ve post three great new interviews of Cajun and Zydeco performers. Listen to their own voices tell their stories to interviewer Chris Strachwitz. Clfton Chenier, the...

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Happy 110th Birthday Moses Asch!

Happy 110th Birthday Moses Asch!

Happy 110th Birthday Moses Asch! Wednesday, December 2, 2015, would have been the 110th birthday of Folkways Records founder Moses “Moe” Asch (1905–1986). Listen to a...

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Interview with Fred and Rose Maddox and Maddox Brothers & Rose Photo Gallery

Interview with Fred and Rose Maddox and Maddox Brothers & Rose Photo Gallery

New Maddox Brothers and Rose photo gallery and interview. Listen to Fred and Rose Maddox as they reminisce about the Maddox Brothers and Rose and celebrate...

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We welcome your comments!

This is the new Arhoolie foundation website which we will be filling with all sorts of photos, interviews, discographies, videos, and other information. At the bottom of...

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New UCLA Frontera Website

The new bi-lingual UCLA Frontera website is up now featuring over 100,000 recordings with longer audio samples, places from you to enter in your comments, a blog...

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Book on Arhoolie Foundation Frontera Collection Wins Three Awards

Book on Arhoolie Foundation Frontera Collection Wins Three Awards

The book Introduction and Guide to the Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings has won three awards at the 2013 International Latino Book Awards....

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Postage Stamp to Honor Lydia Mendoza

Postage Stamp to Honor Lydia Mendoza

On May 15, 2013 the US Postal Service issued a postage stamp honoring Lydia Mendoza. Lydia Mendoza was the first Queen of Tejano Music, with a...

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Frontera project receives two new grants

The Arhoolie Foundation is excited to announce that we have just received generous grants from the Grammy Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to...

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“Squeezebox Stories” Wins Award

Congratulations to Julie Caine, Marié Abe, Loretta Williams, and Robin Wise on receiving a 2012 Excellence in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern...

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New Book On The Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection

New Book On The Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection

  The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings contains over 140,000 individual recordings on 78, 45, LP and cassette, over 2,000 photographs, posters,...

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Statement on the passing of Chris Strachwitz

Arhoolie Records Founder
July 1, 1931 – May 5, 2023

We celebrate the life of our founder, friend, and great record man Chris Strachwitz. He died peacefully at home in Marin County, CA, surrounded in his last days by dear friends and family. Over his 91 years, Chris captured the music that represents the best “down home music” the world has to offer.

He was at the forefront of nearly all the roots revivals over the last 60 years including blues, zydeco, Cajun, Norteño and Tejano music. His drive to document traditional music helped introduce the nation to our diverse musical heritage. He had the foresight to save music that might have otherwise been lost to obscurity and played a role in strengthening cultural traditions through his records, films, and most recently the Arhoolie Foundation. He cared for those around him, fought for royalties and recognition for Arhoolie artists, and provided counsel to countless musicians, writers, film makers, and academics.

Plans for a public celebration of his life will be announced in the coming weeks. Today we’re thinking of all that Chris brought to our lives and the lives of the musicians and fans with whom he shared his passion.

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