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Join us for an evening of Zydeco & Cajun music as Big Island Jazz & Blues Festival and the Blue Dragon Tavern presents Bruce Sunpie Barnes. Doors at 5pm...show 7pm. Tickets are $15 in advance...$20 at the door (children 12 and under are free).
Bruce Sunpie Barnes is a New Orleans musician, former park ranger with the National Park Service (32 years), actor, photographer, book author, former high school biology teacher, former college football All-American, and former NFL player (Kansas City Chiefs). Sunpie Barnes' many careers have taken him far and wide. He has traveled to over 60 countries playing his own style of what he calls Afro-Louisiana music incorporating blues, zydeco, gospel, Caribbean and African influenced rhythms and melodies. He is a multi-instrumentalist, master accordion and harmonica player, also piano, rubboard, talking drum, and dejembe. He learned accordion from some of the best Zydeco pioneers in Louisiana, including Fernest Arceneaux, John Delafose, and Clayton Sampy. In 1991 he collaborated with Haorld Ray Brown, pioneering drummer from Latin Funk Band WAR to form his musical group Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he has performed at festivals and concerts across the US and around the globe. Sunpie has recorded 6 critically acclaimed CDs with his compositions currently featured in more than 25 Hollywood film productions. In addition to this musical work he is also a former member of the Paul Simon Band that embarked on a 58 city world tour "Paul Simon and Sting Together", which span 41 countries (2013-2015). Film acting has also been an important part of his busy career. Sunpie's work has appeared in such Hollywood productions as Point of No Return, Deja Vu, UnderCover Blues, Jonah Hex, Treme, The Big Easy, Skeleton Key, Heartless, The Gates Of Silence, NCIS New Orleans and Odd Girl Out. He is deeply involved in New Orleans parade culture and co-authored the 2015 critically acclaimed book "Talk That Music Talk" - Passing On Brass Band Music In New Orleans "The Traditional Way". Over 300 of Sunpie's photographs are featured in this book. In 2019 Sunpie co-authored the 128 page book and Cd entitled Le Kér Creole. He is a 26 vear member and the Big Chief of the North Side Skull and Bone Gang, one of the oldest existing Black Carnival groups in New Orleans. Sunpie is also a 24 year member of the secondline parading organization, Black Men of Labor Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
Date & Time
Thu, Jun 5, 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Venue Details
Blue Dragon Tavern
61-3616 Kawaihae RoadWaimea, Hawaii 96743
