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Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz

A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records....

Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / June 22, 2023

Latin Soul Unique Collaboration with Raza, Accordions, And Rock! This month’s “Raza, Accordions, and Rock” is a collaboration with the Arhoolie Foundation’s Frontera Collection ¡En...

Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / March 23, 203

Artist Spotlight and Interview: Santiago Jiménez Jr. In this month’s Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! series, we will be featuring an exclusive interview with Santiago Jimenez Jr.,...

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...

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...

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...

The 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...

Rumbo 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...

Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo! / April 28, 2022

¡Canciones de Guerra! In this month’s Frontera Collection ¡En Vivo!, we will listen to and explore how armed conflict manifests in song. Whether it is a...

Deep Dives: Both Sides of the Border

The Frontera Collection is an archive of over 160,000 songs documenting over 100 years of music from the border of the US and Mexico. The songs...

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