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2023 Year-End Letter

Dear Arhoolie family, As the year comes to a close, we remember our founder and inspiration, Chris Strachwitz, whom we lost on May 5 at the...

The Ann Savoy Collection Goes Live

https://youtu.be/GuJgSbV2Wss 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...

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...

Announcing the Irene Tenney Cajun and Creole Culture Collection

By Clark Noone, Archivist We’re excited to announce the new Irene Tenney Cajun and Creole Culture Collection at the Arhoolie Foundation! Featuring a wide array of...

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,...

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...

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...

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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