ARHOOLIE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS:Arhoolie News
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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New Digitizing Station Up And Running
Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, we have established a second digitizing station and hired an additional technician (Leon Garcia, pictured)...
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New foundation brochure available
A new Arhoolie Foundation brochure (8 pages illustrated and in color) outlining our history and accomplishments is now available. It has been mailed to all donors...
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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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Nick Spitzer Joins Advisory Board
We are greatly honored to welcome our friend Nick Spitzer to the Arhoolie Foundation Advisory Board. As the producer and host of the wonderful public radio...
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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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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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Press conference at UCLA with Los Tigres del Norte
We held a press conference at UCLA with Los Tigres del Norte celebrating the completion of digitizing the 17,000 – 78 rpm discs in the FRONTERA...
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R.I.P. Paul oliver
R.I.P. Paul Oliver A note from Chris Strachwitz, founder of Arhoolie Records and the Arhoolie Foundation: “Paul was a remarkable person and devoted educator who taught...
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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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