3 – 4 PM
MARC STONE AND BRUCE “SUNPIE” BARNES TALK (AND SING) THE BLUES
The blues is a much more complex term than most music lovers could imagine. Join these two acclaimed New Orleans musicians for a musical tour through the origins and history of the blues through performance and conversation.
This project was made possible with funding provided by the Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative, a program administered by the National Park Service and Jefferson National Parks Association.
New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Avenue

4 – 5 PM
CHRIS THOMAS KING: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BLUES
The blues is such a popular mode of music that everyone thinks they invented it. Contrary to popular myth, the blues did not begin on Mississippi Delta plantations. The original American art form began in Louisiana in the 1890s. Join Chris Thomas King, acclaimed musician and author of The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture as he shares what his research has proven about the origins of the blues and New Orleans’ place in that story in an interview with the New Orleans Jazz Museum's David Kunian.

This project was made possible with funding provided by the Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative, a program administered by the National Park Service and Jefferson National Parks Association.
New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Avenue