Good news! April, 2025

Through GRAMMY Museum support, Louisiana Folk Roots (LFR) will digitize and preserve at-risk audiovisual tape recordings of Cajun and Creole heritage folk music performances and presentations that occurred from 2001-2015. This LFR archival collection of analog formats is not currently available online. Following digitization, this collection can become publicly accessible in partnership with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Library and Institutional Repository.

For more information contact:

Sandy Himel, MLS

(337)482-1174 or sandra.himel@louisiana.edu

Visit the CCMC here!

VIsit the Folk Roots Archive

in the

Cajun & Creole

Music Collection

University Libraries, UL Lafayette

Louisiana Folk Roots is honored to include its archive of performance videos, recordings, posters, photos, and memorabilia in the “Cajun and Creole Music Collection” (CCMC). The CCMC consists of over 9,000 items including commercial and non-commercial recordings and other music-related research materials. Formats include both analog and digital media: 78rpm, 45rpm, and LP (33 ⅓) records, 8-track tapes, audio-cassette tapes, CDs, VHS tapes, and DVDs. The expanding collection also contains a vintage recording booth and console, books, periodicals, photographs, artifacts, manuscripts and other archival materials.