The Arhoolie Foundation presents The Arhoolie Awards: Celebrating American Roots Music
The Arhoolie Foundation presents The Arhoolie Awards: Celebrating American Roots Music
Join us for a special livestream on 3/26 at 9 pm ET. Learn more & donate at https://www.arhoolie.org/donate/ ....
Celebrate American Roots Music with the Arhoolie Awards
Arhoolie Records has always gathered and shared a wide swath of one of America’s most precious artifacts, its roots music. The Arhoolie Foundation continues to steward this great legacy, and on March 26th at 6 pm (Pacific) will celebrate with a streaming 75-minute video, “The Arhoolie Awards,” which will feature archival footage, contemporary performances by some wonderful newcomers, the warm presence of host Charlie Musselwhite, and awards to groups and individuals who help nurture the tradition and ensure that it stays vital and rewarding.
The event will feature performances by Charlie, Maria Muldaur, Eric and Suzy Thompson, Laurie Lewis, Rose Maddox, Miko Marks, Dueto Dos Rosas, Ann, Marc, Joel and Wilson Savoy, Alvin Lee, Lalo Guerrero with the Mariachi Los Gavilanes de Oakland, Nora Brown, and the Campbell Brothers.
The awards go to the venerable, like Bobby Black, one of the first generation of
pedal steel players in America, and to the youth-centric Jalopy Theatre and School of Music in Brooklyn. Other awards go to sacred steel innovator Chuck Campbell, authentic songster Ruben Castillo Juarez. Special awards go to legendary blues harp player and vocalist Charlie Musselwhite and patron of traditional music Ed Littlefield Jr.