folk music Archives - The Arhoolie Foundation

Arhoolie Occasional Number 1

“Since many people think that records are very profitable, let me try to present to you some of the facts.” So wrote Chris Strachwitz in his...

Record Company Catalogs and Publications of International and Regional Music

As an avid record collector, Chris Strachwitz also collected many vintage record company catalogs and publications of regional and ethnic music. Albanian, Scandinavia, Old Familiar Tunes,...

Vern Williams & Ray Park Interview

Vern & Ray Interview: (14:44) LISTEN HERE: Vern & Ray Interviewed By: Chris Strachwitz Date: unknown Location: unknown Language: English [feather_share] This is an unedited interview originally recorded...

Frontera Collection Project Awarded NEH Grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Arhoolie Foundation a three-year $265,000 grant to continue our efforts to digitally preserve and create access to the...

Arhoolie in the news: “Corrido Heaven”

Here’s a bit from Lawrence Downes’ feature article, “In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders,” from the Travel section of this Sunday’s New York Times (August 16,...

Mike Seeger: 8/17/1933 – 8/7/2009

Our good friend Mike Seeger passed away Friday evening August 9th. Through his love for traditional music, he spent his life educating us, inspiring us, entertaining...

Mike Seeger in hospice.

Sad news: Mike Seeger, who has been battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma for a number of years, has now developed a new, unusually aggressive form of cancer, called...

Squeeze Box Stories funding

The California Council for the Humanities awarded a $40,000 grant for the California Stories: California Documentary Project proposal “Squeezebox Stories.” This will fund a radio documentary...

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