When Leroy Etienne, a resident of Lafayette, LA, attended school in the 1950s, the teachers advised him not to speak “French” in school. Just as American English might sound odd to a British speaker, ...

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and his Louisiana Sunspots band will fill Christ Episcopal Church with their distinctive fusion of zydeco, blues, gospel, jazz, Afro-Caribbean and African music on Nov. 16 as the ...

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes speaks about what makes New Orleans music unique. Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes speaks about what makes New Orleans music unique, how they have learned from their roots, and why they are ...

The Abita Springs Opry said "Y'all come!" to its 2023 spring season opener on March 18, and fans packed the house for a foot-stomping show headlined by master musician Bruce Sunpie Barnes & the ...

On Saturday, November 12, the New Orleans Accordion Festival will hold a fundraising concert featuring Accordianistan, Noah Adams, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, Ash Blume, The Klezmer All-Stars Duo, Bart ...

For Bruce 'Sunpie" Barnes, Mardi Gras day begins quietly in the darkened pre-dawn hours as he takes a solitary journey to a local cemetery to commune with the dead. Kneeling before graves, he asks the ...

Ensemble Fatien mixes West African percussion, New Orleans jazz and some other blues and Creole sounds. A native of the Ivory Coast, Seguenon Kone (pictured) leads several percussionists and is joined ...