Bruce Sunpie is a musician, writer, naturalist, park ranger, ethnographic photographer, and actor from Saline County, Arkansas, and former NFL player (Kansas City Chiefs). Along with his band, the Louisiana Sunspots, Barnes pioneered a unique mixture of zydeco, blues, gospel, jazz, and African and Afro-Caribbean music into a musical gumbo that he dubbed “Afro-Louisiana” music. Barnes plays accordion, harmonica, piano, trombone, rubboard, and various other musical instruments. Sunpie is deeply involved in New Orleans parade culture and takes his music to the streets. He is 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 and Pleasure Club.