A Life Spend Playing the Blues: A Music Informance with the Wayne "Blue" Burns Band

Grammy winner Wayne "Blue" Burns, guitarist, has been playing music all his life. Blue is a world-famous bassist, but the blues guitar is his thing. A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Blue credits Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller as two of his favorite musical influences. Blue has performed with many artists but is most famous for nearly twenty years as a bassist for Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco. In his life-long career, Blue has performed in all 50 United States and around the world, and is one of the first African Americans to perform in East Berlin after the Wall came down. Blue's proudest moment came in 1982 when he played bass on Clifton Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band's Grammy-winning album, "I'm Here!" Blue is a living legend.

This program is brought to you in partnership with the NSU Folklife Center and the City of Natchitoches.