Location: Lafayette
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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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