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Day Worker Center Fundraiser w/ John Leopold and Arhoolie Records music
Mexican American roots music will be featured at the Day Worker Center benefit Friday, June 23, 7:00 pm, Tickets $40.00
When and where
Date and time
Friday, June 23 · 7 - 9:30pm PDT
Location
Resource Center For Nonviolence 612 Ocean Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Refund Policy
About this event
- 2 hours 30 minutes
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Support the Day Worker Center!
The Day Worker Center of Santa Cruz County presents a Mexican and Mexican American music and multi-media event Friday, June 23, at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. Support the Day Worker Center at this benefit event, 7:00 to 9:30 pm $40.00 per ticket. Tickets are available at Eventbrite .
DJ Juan Antonio Cuellar and John Leopold will present the history of the Arhoolie Foundation and their fantastic collection of Mexican and Mexican American music . The Foundation preserves and promotes American roots music including Zydeco, Corridos, Cajun, blues, folk, and sacred steel gospel. Celebrate day workers with refreshments and music expressing deep Mexican culture in our community and country.
Join John Leopold, Managing Director of the Arhoolie Foundation and Juan Antonio Cuéllar, Frontera Collection Curator to hear the story of Chris Strachwitz, an immigrant to the US who fell in love with American roots music and started the seminal label, Arhoolie Records. From his early days as 78rpm record collector and his love of “down-home “blues music to his work popularizing Zydeco, Cajun, folk and Sacred Steel gospel. His “mania” for music on the border helped him amass the world’s largest repository of Mexican and Mexican American music. Today the Arhoolie Foundation hosts the Frontera Collection with an array of different projects that tell the stories of the songs, the label and the musicians who have created the greatest oral tradition of the last 100 years. The program will feature music, videos and photos celebrating outstanding roots music.
7-7:30 refreshments, outside in the parking lot at the Resource Center for Nonviolence at 612 Ocean St.
7:30-9:30 Program in the Hall at 612 Ocean St. masks required
The Day Worker Center is a program of the Community Action Board, assisting day laborers to find fair employment. Our new location is at 501 Soquel Ave., Suite F, Santa Cruz.
For more information at https://dayworkercentersc.org/ or call 831-475-9675