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Music and Culture in New Orleans

Thursday, July 21, 2022, 7 p.m.

Evening event of the interdisciplinary conference "New Orleans, A Sense of Place: Environmental and Cultural Resilience" (Thursday, July 21, 2022, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.).

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, veteran musician and public historian, and Rachel Breunlin, anthropologist and ethnographer, will share their collaborations from The Neighborhood Story Project, based on book projects from their interviews in New Orleans and southern Louisiana, in a multimedia presentation with live music.

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Please note that current public health regulations will be followed.

Please register here for free (no XING-account needed): www.xing-events.com/neworleans

Rachel Breunlin and Bruce Barnes ©private

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes is an independent scholar and musician. Leader of Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he played harmonica and accordion with the Paul Simon Band and visited the Munich Olympiahalle on tour with Paul Simon & Sting in 2015.

Rachel Breunlin is the Director of the Neighborhood Story Project, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of New Orleans.

The Neighborhood Story Project is a nonprofit collaborative publishing organization in partnership with the University of New Orleans.

Amerikahaus - Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations

Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, München

For questions, please contact: Amy.Mohr@lmu.de