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American Routes Live with with NPS Artists in Residence: Sidiki Conde and Wowo Souakoli, joined by Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Peter Carter
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Free. Free and open to the publicLocation: LAT/LONG: 29.961423, -90.057850
This program takes place inside the third-floor Performance Center of the New Orleans Jazz Museum - 400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116
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2:00 to 3:00 pm Central Time
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The New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
in partnership with
The New Orleans Jazz Museum
presents
American Routes Live with with NPS Artists in Residence:
Sidiki Conde and Wowo Souakoli
Joined by Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes and Peter Carter
Thursday, 4/27, at 2:00 pm
At the New Orleans Jazz Museum - 400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans
In the 3rd Floor Theater
American Routes, hosted by Nick Spitzer, is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. Now in our 20th year on the air, American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music — and how they are distinguished.
Sidiki Conde became a dance despite losing the use of his legs to polio as a child in Guinea. He is a soloist, a composer, and a choreographer.
Wowo Souakoli is a master guitarist from the West African country of Guinea. Souakolis is a master of the traditional guitar which transposes the music of the balaphone, the lead instrument of the Malinke culture dating back to the 3rd century. Sauakoli’s guitar gives the traditional culture of Guinea a voice in the modern age. Souakoli was non-verbal as a child, but the guitar gave him a voice and with time, the confidence to speak.
Together the two founded Message D’Espoir, a music and dance ensemble composed of artists with disabilities.
Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes is a veteran musician, former park ranger, actor, former high school biology teacher, former college football All-American, and former NFL player (Kansas City Chiefs). Sunpie Barnes' career has taken him far and wide, and he has traveled to over 35 countries playing his own style of blues, zydeco and Afro-Louisiana music incorporating Caribbean and African influenced rhythms and melodies. He is a multi-instrumentalist playing piano, percussion, harmonica, and he learned to play accordion from some of the best, including Fernest Arceneaux, John Delafose, and Clayton Sampy. With his musical group Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he has played festivals and concerts across New Orleans and the US, as well as internationally, and they have recorded 5 critically acclaimed CDs. Sunpie is deeply involved in New Orleans parade culture and takes his music to the streets. He is Big 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 and Pleasure Club.
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