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Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / June 22, 2023

Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / June 22, 2023

Latin Soul   Unique Collaboration with Raza, Accordions, And Rock! This month’s “Raza, Accordions, and Rock” is a collaboration with the Arhoolie Foundation’s Frontera Collection ¡En...

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Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / March 23, 203

Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / March 23, 203

Artist Spotlight and Interview: Santiago Jiménez Jr. In this month’s Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! series, we will be featuring an exclusive interview with Santiago Jimenez Jr.,...

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Finding History on a Store Sticker

Finding History on a Store Sticker

By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator Throughout my 20 years of digitizing the Frontera Collection, I was always intrigued by the store stickers found on...

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Manny Guerra Interview

Introduction by Manuel Peña Manny Guerra, well known recording entrepreneur in the tejano music arena, was born in 1930, in San Antonio, Texas. Guerra became an...

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Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / February 23, 2023

Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / February 23, 2023

Canciones de Dave Bartholomew y Fats Domino This week’s Frontera Collection En Vivo highlights Dave Bartholomew and Antoine “Fats” Domino’s songs covered in Spanish. Our Rumbo...

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Raza, Accordions, and Rock!

Raza, Accordions, and Rock!

Raza, Accordions, & Rock is monthly show hosted on the Dublab website and to spotlight the many untold stories hidden within the grooves of the Strachwitz Frontera Collection.

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What a Difference a Date Makes

What a Difference a Date Makes

By John Leopold, Managing Director The Arhoolie Foundation collections contain a multitude of items that were acquired by a collector. Chris Strachwitz collected records, tapes, posters,...

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From San Antonio With Love

From San Antonio With Love

By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator Over my twenty-year span of digitizing the Frontera Collection as the Head Digitizing Engineer, many aspects of the collection...

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Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / December 22, 2022

Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / December 22, 2022

Canciones Navideñas In this month’s Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! We take look and listen to the Christmas songs archived in the Frontera Collection from all decades...

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A Demo in the Rough

A Demo in the Rough

By Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator As the Head Digitizing Engineer of the Frontera Collection from 2002 until early 2022, I was fortunate to discover...

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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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