Blues, Brews + BBQ

10/23/2025

Thanks to Pirogue's Whiskey Bayou for serving up delicious drinks at Blues, Brews & BBQ!
Visit them at 6940 St. Claude Ave. in Arabi daily for more delicious drinks and fun events.

10/16/2025

The Community Center of St. Bernard will be closing today at 10:30am to attend an event to support the Family Violence Program Of St. Bernard. CCSTB will reopen on Tuesday, October 21st at 8am for our normal hours. Thank you for your understanding.

10/16/2025

We’re just remembering how awesome the music line up was this year! 🤩🎶
Chalmette High Jazz Band
Audrey LeCrone & the Crawzaddies
Johnny Mastro
The Kenny Acosta Band
Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes & the Louisiana Sunspots

10/09/2025

We are excited to share that we raised $45,000 for the Community Center of St. Bernard this year! 🙌
This money will go directly to the food pantry and food backpack program to feed children and families in St. Bernard Parish.
Thanks to the St. Bernard Voice for the front page feature, and a huge thank you to everyone who was a part of Blues, Brews & BBQ this year.
For more information on the Community Center: www.ccofstb.com

10/06/2025

10/05/2025

THANK YOU!
We had some rain, but you still showed up! We are so appreciative of our sponsors, volunteers, food vendors, tech crew, and musicians who always help make this such a great community event.
We will see everyone again on Saturday, October 3, 2026. 🎶🍻🍗

10/04/2025

One more hour until Blues, Brews & BBQ!
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm at Docville Farm
FREE entry. Delicious food, great music and cold drinks.
Bands, art show, and kid’s area are all inside!
All proceeds benefit the Community Center of St. Bernard.

10/03/2025

We’re less than 24 hours away!
FREE entry from 12pm - 6pm at Docville Farm.
Come enjoy delicious food, cold drinks, and amazing music. 🍗🍻🎶
Thank you to the Meraux Foundation for allowing us to host this event in their beautiful space and for being such a great partner to the Community Center of St. Bernard.
We hope to see everyone tomorrow!

10/02/2025

🎉 Sponsor Spotlight! 🎉

We are incredibly grateful to Rhythm & Blues Sponsors for their generous sponsorship of our 2025 Blues, Brews, & BBQ event! 💙🍻🔥

Rita & Floyd Gue
Sidney Torres Law Firm

Thanks to their support, we’re one step closer to our mission of fighting food insecurity right here in St. Bernard Parish. Every dollar they’ve contributed goes directly toward providing food for our pantry and weekend meals for students in need through the Backpack Program.

Together, we’re making a difference — one meal, one child, one community at a time. 🙌

Please join us in thanking our Rhythm & Blues Sponsors for standing with us in this important work! 💛

10/01/2025

Did you see the segment on WVUE FOX 8 this morning about Blues, Brews & BBQ?
We’re only 3 days away! 🤩

09/30/2025

We are thankful to the St. Bernard Art Guild for displaying their talents to support the Community Center of St. Bernard! 🎨
These paddles are now painted, and they will be auctioned off on Saturday October 4 at the event. Stop in the AMROC building to check them out!

Today, beginning at 10am, St. Bernard Art Guild members are Paintin’ Paddles at Docville Farm! Paddles will be auctioned at Blues, Brews, & BBQ Fest on Oct.4. All proceeds will benefit the Community Center of St. Bernard.

09/29/2025

Bruce ‘Sunpie’ Barnes & the Louisiana Sunspots will be playing at 5:00 pm this Saturday at Docville Farm!
🎶 🪗🪕
Bruce Sunpie Barnes is a veteran New Orleans musician, former Park Ranger with the National Park Service for 30 years, actor, photographer, book author, former high school biology teacher, former college football All-American, and former NFL player (Kansas City Chiefs). Sunpie Barnes' many careers have taken him far and wide. He has traveled to over 50 countries playing his own style of what he calls Afro-Louisiana music incorporating Blues, Zydeco, Gospel, Caribbean and African influenced rhythms and melodies. He is a multi-instrumentalist, master accordion and harmonica player, also piano, rubboard, talking drum, and dejembe. He learned accordion from some of the best Zydeco pioneers in Louisiana including Fernest Arceneaux, John Delafose, and Clayton Sampy. Along with his musical group Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, he has performed at festivals and concerts across the US and around the globe. Sunpie has recorded 6 critically acclaimed CDs with his compositions currently featured in 16 Hollywood film productions.