Location: California
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,...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreRumbo a California Documents the Rise of Mexican Music in California
El Cerrito, CA (9/15/22) – The Arhoolie Foundation presents Rumbo a California: Making Mexican Music in the Golden State, a bilingual digital exhibition that explores the history...
Read MoreRy Cooder Interview
“Once you can see somebody play, I’ve always found this to be true, it illuminates the whole situation, how they hold the instrument, how they physically go about doing these things. Copying notes off a record is pointless. You got to know how they get themselves in a physical state and then things happen, they just seem to happen…
Read MoreSonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Photo Gallery
Previous Next By the early 1960s, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were familiar faces in the Bay Area’s folk and blues scene. They frequently set up...
Read MoreJohn Hogg Interview
I don’t know. It’s just in me. It’s in me. They say- Actually, the guys, since I’ve been on the west coast have changed me over kind of on the modern kick, but I still can’t away from this.
Read MoreThe Chris Strachwitz Collection
As founder of both Arhoolie Records and the Arhoolie Foundation, Chris Strachwitz has been collecting, documenting, recording, and promoting regional roots music for over 60 years....
Read MoreThe Chris Strachwitz Archive – Chris’ 90th Birthday Celebration
Chris’ 90th Birthday Celebration We are celebrating the birthday of Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz as he turns 90 on July 1, 2021! For over 60...
Read MoreArhoolie 60 Year Anniversary
Arhoolie Records 60 Year Anniversary and Arhoolie Foundation 25 year ANNIVERSARY Enjoy this specially edited archive version of the originally broadcast celebration. Our original Anniversary Celebration...
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