Bruce Sunpie Barnes
Bruce Sunpie Barnes

Bruce Sunpie Barnes

(504) 314-6680
A true Renaissance Man- Sunpie has taveled to over 35 countries playing his own style of blues, zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Louisiana music. With his group the Louisiana Sunspots, Sunpie has played festival and concerts as far away as, Ranvinimi, Finland located 3 hours above the Artic Circle, San Palo- Brazil and many more. Sunpie has 5 critically acclaimed Cds: Loup Garou, Lick A Skillet, Sunpie, Legends of the Swamp and Zydeco's Got Soul.

Sunpie is also a veteran park ranger with the National Park Service currently working at New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, Second Chief of the North Side Skull and Bone Gang, one of the oldest existing carnival groups in New Orleans and a member of the Black Men of Labor Social Aid.