Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation Latin Music Research and Preservation Grant Program

Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation Latin Music Research and Preservation Grant Program is sponsored by Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation. This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

Latin Music Research and Preservation Grants | LatinGRAMMYCulturalFoundation. org Latin Music Research and Preservation Grants The 2026 Latin Music Research and Preservation Grant program provides grants to support music institutions, nonprofit organizations, musicologists, and researchers around the world dedicated to the research and preservation of Latin music heritage.

A total of four (4) grants —each valued at up to $5,000 —will be awarded this year. To date, the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation has awarded 52 grants , with a combined value of $285,000 , to researchers, musicologists and institutions whose projects focus on historical research, music anthropology and the documentation of Latin folklore traditions.

The four grants offered by the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation fall into the below categories: Two (2) Latin Music Research Grants for a maximum amount of $5,000 , funding one project focused on historical research, folklore and anthropology of a Latin music genre. Two (2) Latin Music Preservation Grants for a maximum of $5,000 , supporting one project aiming to archive and preserve the heritage of Latin music.

Promoting results of scholarly research and documenting and preserving information about Latin music genres should be the main focus of the projects and results must be available to the general public at no cost. APPLICATION PROCESS FOR THE 2026 LATIN MUSIC RESEARCH AND PRESERVATION PROGRAM: The application process will start June 18, 2026 . All applications are due August 27, 2026 .

All applicants will be notified by email the first week of December 2026 and winners will also be announced on this page. Applications that are late, incomplete or not within the guidelines, will not be reviewed. The award selection will be made through a competitive process guided by experts of the Grant Committee of the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation according to Foundation policies.

Good luck to all applicants! To review guidelines please click on the links below: Review 2026 Latin Music Research Grant Guidelines and funding information « CLICK HERE » Review 2026 Latin Music Preservation Grant Guidelines and funding information « CLICK HERE » THE 2026 Latin Music Research and Preservation Grant program APPLICATION PROCESS IS NOW OPEN.

If you have any questions after reviewing the guidelines please contact us at lgcf@grammy. com or click on CONTACT below.

LATIN MUSIC RESEARCH AND PRESERVATION PROGRAM - PAST WINNERS 2025 Research, Preservation Grants and Vallenato Grant Recipients presented by Silvestre Dangond 2024 Research and Preservation Grant Recipients presented by PepsiCo Juntos Crecemos 2024 Research and Preservation Grant Recipients 2015 Research Grant Recipient Manuel García – “ Bullerengue (An Afro-Colombian Tradition in The Atlantic Coast)” The project produced and published a series of teaching materials to promote the Latin community and general music knowledge of the Afro-Colombian tradition based on original recordings of artist Petrona Martínez.

Presented in New York by composer, researcher and music producer Manuel Garcia-Orozco, the project consists of three academic papers, three Internet tutorial videos, and a digital application.

2018 Preservation Grant Recipient Henry Durante Machado – “ Projeto Acervo das Tradições” Machado's project, "Projeto Acervo das Tradições" focused on preserving and cataloging the cultural traditions of Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Amerindians, Caipiras and the Caiçaras of the southeast and northeast regions of Brazil through photographs and videos that are archived on a free digital platform.

2019 Research Grant Recipient Judy Cantor-Navas – “Panart Records: Sello discográfico que capturó la música cubana y la trajo al mundo” Judy Cantor-Navas, an American writer and music curator living in Spain. For her project, Panart Records: Sello discográfico que capturó la música cubana y la trajo al mundo, Cantor-Navas will reconstruct and document, in precise detail, the history of Panart Records.

She will document the complete discography, artist list, and the stories behind the music recorded during the golden age of Cuban music during the 1940s to the 1950s; demonstrating the importance of Panart Records' place within Cuba’s cultural patrimony and the history of Latin music. www. gladyspalmera.

com/coleccion/el-diario-de-gladys/el-mundo-de-panart-records/ 2020 Research Grant Recipient Dr. Katrin Lengwinat – "Aporte a la recuperación de la diversidad del joropo llanero" Her project "Aporte a la recuperación de la diversidad del joropo llanero" explored, recorded and distributed approximately 50 golpes, two thirds of which are very rarely practiced today, and created an easily accessed web source containing educational videos with instrumental music and texts about historic aspects.

Access to the results of the research and the performances are completely public as well as free of charge to guarantee the widest possible distribution at the national and international levels. In addition, this plurality is propagated among advanced cuatristas through musical workshops in Caracas that seek to encourage the broadening of the repertoire through the diffusion of six "golpes raros."

2020 Preservation Grant Recipient Oluwafemi Agbayewa – The "Hugo "Cheché" Santos: La última llamada" Project consists of a series of podcasts based on the life and musical career of candombe star Hugo "Cheché" Santos. The series reflects on the challenges, difficulties and successes in his professional career, and contributes to the preservation of Afro-Uruguayan culture, as well as research.

The podcasts seek to connect candombe with a regional and global audience, and they discuss the actions and challenges of this musical movement. www. youtube.

com/watch?

v=nfz_x4OLmhQ&fbclid=IwAR1Ya3tOu2PGOnELozf6w52Q1OXV7Nv2rb0EuI5AbCegjVr5B1KiIBx3tXM 2022 Research Grant Recipient Andrea López and Víctor López – “El pasado que suena y resuena: nuestra herencia decimonónica” Through “El pasado que suena y resuena: nuestra herencia decimonónica” this project produced three videos with works from powerful music genres from the 19th century in Mexico that are found in documents protected in historical archives.

Uncovering these bodies of work will serve to realize how these sounds and genres persist in the present day, while providing a visual context that will help listeners more deeply comprehend and enjoy these forms of music. The materials, including videos, soundtracks, digitalized versions of sheet music, books, and complimentary audiovisual material of these genres, are available free of charge online.

These investigations have been and will continue to be carried out by members of Seminario de Música en la Nueva España and México Independiente (Musicat), belonging to Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and they also provide perspective on the historical interpretation informed by the unedited works of different genres from the 19th century proposed for the project.

The sound production is contextualized with graphic and visual elements to produce three videos. Field records are documented through the observation of traditional practices that are still relevant today, in order to contrast them with historical practices from which they emerged with the ultimate goal of preserving them as living testimony. http://musicat.

unam. mx/suena-y-resuena/ 2022 Preservation Grant Recipient Dr. Rosa Iraima Sulbarán – “Archivo audiovisual de Resiliencias: Música tradicional” “Archivo audiovisual de Resiliencias: Música tradicional” is a project that preserves audiovisual documents highlighting the resilience of rituals and centuries old musical genres recorded throughout Venezuela.

This material currently archived in personal collections was unavailable to the public, remaining invisible. The purpose is to bring these collections to light, providing public access and broad distribution of their existence. The audiovisual, photographic and testimonial records cover six musical cultures, which were recorded with advanced technology under scientific and ethical concepts.

They reflect the rituals, characteristics and meanings that are emblematic for the continent, demonstrating a history of conflicts and regional crisis throughout Latin America. In this chapter of history, protests take place in popular religious environments, revealing the imagination and resilience of the people to reconstruct life and the symbolic practices of these cultural towns.

This material not only observes and transmits strength like qualities marking resilience, but also help to appreciate the true value of traditional popular cultures and their musical genres. https://testimoniosdelatradicion.

org/ 2022 Preservation Grant Recipient The Regents of University of California, Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara Library – California Preservation and Assessment of the Astor Piazzolla Materials in the Edouard Pecourt Collection Funding for the California Preservation and Assessment of the Astor Piazzolla Materials in the Edouard Pecourt Collection came at a significant moment in time as the world celebrated the centenary of Piazzolla’s birth in 1921.

This anniversary has drawn the attention of performers and audiences around the world, with tribute concerts and recordings, documentaries and exhibitions taking place in cities from Buenos Aires to Trondheim, Seoul, and Houston. The timing provided additional motivation to increase awareness and research of Piazzolla’s life and the development of his work.

The Pecourt collection contains significant documents related to the life and career of Piazzolla. There are open-reel tapes, audio cassettes, videos, manuscripts, photographs, and other ephemera that need additional documentation and study. The correspondence between Piazzolla and Pecourt also needs further exploration and documentation.

These materials serve as clues to Piazzolla’s decisions, ideas, and compositions. Given that Piazzolla was a musical revolutionary and an immensely popular composer of tango and Latin American music, it is important that this collection be made more accessible to researchers and be put in the broader context of Piazzolla’s work and 20th century Latin American music.