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The Ann Savoy Collection Goes Live

The Ann Savoy Collection Goes Live

The Arhoolie Foundation is proud to make available new audio interviews with legendary Cajun and Creole musicians from the Ann Savoy Interview Collection. Ann’s collection consists...

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Ann Savoy Collection: Rockin’ Dopsie, 1984

Ann Savoy Collection: Rockin’ Dopsie, 1984

I loved the zydeco of the Lafayette area very much and was happy to interview left-handed Rockin’ Dopsie. He, his wife Alvina and his baby son Dwayne (now a zydeco megastar) were sitting on the sofa of Dopsie’s house.

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Ann Savoy Collection: Aldus Roger

Ann Savoy Collection: Aldus Roger

There can’t be enough said about the importance of Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys. Their excellent band set the standard for Cajun dancehall bands. They actually were on TV on Saturday afternoons in Acadiana on channel 10 and both Cajuns and Black creoles would sit riveted to their TVs watching them, so proud for one of their own French speaking people to be on TV!

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Ann Savoy Collection: Belton Richard, 1983

Ann Savoy Collection: Belton Richard, 1983

Belton was the most modern and the most locally famous I interviewed. My friend Hadley Castille went with me to his house in Lafayette because it helped to have someone who knew Belton to give me access to his house.

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Arhoolie Awards Celebration Concert 2023

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,...

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Deep Dives: Cajun Culture

Deep Dives: Cajun Culture

The Coop is a new Valcour Records collaborative project with Louisiana musicians, chefs, storytellers, and artists of all disciplines, bringing exclusive monthly content unavailable anywhere else!...

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Deep Dives: The Ann Savoy Collection

Deep Dives: The Ann Savoy Collection

The Ann Savoy Cajun Interviews Collection consists of over 200 recorded interviews Ann Savoy conducted with Louisiana musicians over the past 45 years. The interviews are...

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The Chris Strachwitz Collection

The 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....

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Arhoolie 60 Year Anniversary

Arhoolie 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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Arhoolie Awards 2020

Arhoolie Awards 2020

Arhoolie Awards 2020 The Arhoolie Awards honor musicians, organizations, and individuals who carry on and uplift tradition-based music. Recipients are nominated by experts in the field...

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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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