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, ...

This weekend (June 8-9), the 2013 Cajun Zydeco Festival takes place on the grounds of the Old U.S. Mint, and in this week’s edition of OffBeat’s Look-Ka Py Py Podcast, perennial fest favorite Bruce ...

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 ...

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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 ...

If you were going to stick around Jazz Fest for the rescheduled headliners Friday, you had to just accept you'd get wet. And it seemed like plenty of people were fine with that fact to see The Black ...

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 ...