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New Lost City Ramblers Film

Funding a film about these pioneers in the urban old time music scene »
Frontera Collection
Frontera Collection

Digitizing The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings »


Down Home Music film

A journey through the Heartland of vernacular music in 1963. Filmed by Dietrich Wawzyn.»
Squeezebox Stories
Squeezebox Stories

A radio documentary by project directors Julie Caine and Marie Abé exploring the stories and rich traditions of the accordion in California's diverse cultural landscape »
International Conference on the Corrido
International Conference on the Corrido

Contributing to the presentation of two well known corridistas and their conjuntos »
Viva la Charreria Mexicana
Viva la Charreria Mexicana

Documenting the rich tradition of the charreria in California »
Digitizing Harry Oster's Field Recordings
Digitizing Harry Oster's Field Recordings

Digitizing and cataloging the original field recordings made by the late Prof. Harry Oster in southwest Louisiana »
El Mundo del Corrido
El Mundo del Corrido

A film about the late Professor Guillermo Hernandez and his work at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.
Frontera Images
Frontera Image Archive

Scanning and cataloguing over 1100 photos of musicians, record company catalogs and other historic images related to the recordings in the Frontera Collection »
Sacred Steel Film Project
Sacred Steel Film

Funding a documentary film about the use of the steel guitar in Pentecostal churches »
Sacred Steel Instrument Fund
Sacred Steel Instrument Fund

Providing a source of instruments to talented musicians in the African-American sacred steel guitar musical tradition »
Everything But the Squeak
Everything But the Squeak Film

Documenting a Cajun Country "boucherie" (butchering of a hog and eating it!) and other Cajun/Creole traditions »
Red Alexander
Robert "Red" Alexander Film

Profiling Robert "Red" Alexander, a shipwright and folk artist who builds miniature ships in bottles »
Documenting the Mexican Peerless Label
Documenting the Peerless Label

Cataloging and documenting the output of Mexico's first commercial record label »
The Devil's Swing Film
The Devil's Swing Film

Funding a film about the history and culture of the border region around Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico and Presido, TX »
Corridos y Tragedias de la Frontera
Corridos y Tragedias de la Frontera

Distributing free copies of "Corridos y Tragedias de la Frontera" to libraries »
Assisting Film Student Wilson Savoy
Assisting Film Student Wilson Savoy

Assisting film maker Wilson Savoy with several short video projects »
Kenny Hall Video Project
Kenny Hall Video Project

Making a film about the music and life of an 80-year-old blind fiddler and mandolin player »