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Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz

A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records....

Arhoolie Awards Honorees 2022

The Arhoolie Awards honor musicians, organizations, and individuals who carry on and uplift tradition-based music. Recipients are nominated by experts in the field and selected because...

Arhoolie Awards Celebration Concert 2023

5th annual Arhoolie Awards Celebration Concert Buy Tickets for the Arhoolie Awards Celebration Concert Here The Arhoolie Foundation – a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation,...

Dr. Harry Oster’s Folk-Lyric Records

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...

The Blues Professor and His Dancing Dolls

By Jessica Luther, Archives Intern While sorting through the Strachwitz Photo Collection, I became intrigued by several photographs of blues harmonica player Johnny “J.C.” Burris posing...

New Blog Shares Discoveries

The Arhoolie Foundation introduces This Ain’t No Mouse Blog to present stories from the Arhoolie Foundation’s extraordinary archive of American roots music and vernacular culture. Featuring...

The Blues on My Block: Discovering the Roots Music History of Downtown Berkeley

By Kyle Jackson, Archives Intern I recently began working on a project to help catalog some of the treasure trove of recordings in the vaults at...

The Arhoolie Foundation Year-End Letter

Looking back at this last year, the Arhoolie Foundation continues the work of promoting and preserving roots-based American music. From Mississippi to Louisiana, Florida, Mexico, and...

On the Road with Chris Strachwitz in the Fall of ‘68

By Clark Noone, Archivist November 1968. It was the wake of a seismic presidential election and the end of a tumultuous year of political and cultural...

Chris Strachwitz Interviewed by Roy Trumbull on KBRG

Chris Strachwitz has been many things – songcatcher, music publisher, author, filmmaker, but he is first and foremost a Record Man. Take a listen to a newly unearthed interview with Chris in 1964 as he describes capturing the indelible songs on those early Arhoolie records, upcoming releases, and what it takes to start a record company.

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