The great Buckwheat Zydeco performs at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ on July 30.

NOTE: Because of inclement weather predicted for showtime, tonight’s Concert on the Quad at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ will take place in the Gomes Chapel, 275 College St.

The Concerts on the Quad at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College resumes with the crowd-rousing zydeco artist Buckwheat Zydeco at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30, on the Coram Library porch on ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’ Historic Quad, College Street and Campus Avenue. (The rain site is the nearby Peter J. Gomes Chapel, 275 College St.).

Admission to this family-friendly series is free, and audience members are encouraged to bring picnics and chairs or blankets. For more information, please call 207-753-6953.

Concluding the series at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 13 is the Stephanie Fogg Band.

Widely regarded as the biggest contemporary zydeco artist in the world, accordionist-keyboardist Buckwheat Zydeco has introduced this upbeat blend of blues and traditional Creole music to audiences far away from its birthplace in Lafayette, La.

His energetic style has revitalized zydeco by drawing from mainstream genres like rock and R&B. Zydeco released the first-ever major label zydeco album in 1987, Island Records’ On A Night Like This, and has issued more than two dozen recordings since. Over the course of Zydeco’s career, he has gigged with everyone from Eric Clapton (with whom Zydeco also recorded) and U2 to the Boston Pops.

Stephanie Fogg Band

Singer Stephanie Fogg.

Hailing from Portland, Maine, Fogg is an experienced vocalist and an instructor at the Midcoast School of Music. Growing up listening to jazz and soul artists like Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Etta James inspired Fogg’s love of singing from a young age.

Fogg has toured widely throughout New England. The Stephanie Fogg Band’s recent gigs have included performances of Back to Black, the second and final album by the late and lamented Amy Winehouse, in its entirety. Supporting Fogg are guitarists Mike Derosier and Seth Warner, drummer Chris Marro, bassist Duane Edwards, keyboardist Matt Fogg, and saxophonist David Wells.

An accomplished musician equally at home with blues, zydeco and a spectrum of African and Caribbean styles, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes comes to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College to explore the music of the African Diaspora in a lecture-workshop from 8-10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Room 130 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. The visit was postponed to November from Oct. 28.

Barnes will begin the evening with a lecture and conclude with a workshop for singers, songwriters and musicians. Sponsored by the English department and the African American studies program at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, the event is open to the public at no charge.

A multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, Barnes leads the New Orleans-based band Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots by night. By day, he is a naturalist, wetlands expert and tour guide at Jean Lafitte National Park in the Crescent City — but his experience also includes a stint as a player in the National Football League and an actor in a number of film and television roles.

With four albums to his credit — Sunpie, Lick a Hot Skillet, Swamp Blues, and Loup Garou — Barnes offers a musical blend that he characterizes as “bouje bouje,” Creole for “move.” The son of a blues harmonica player, he’s now regarded as one of New Orleans’ best on that instrument, influenced by such greats as Sonny Boy Williamson, Lee Oskar and Carey Bell. Similarly distinguished as a singer, Barnes also plays zydeco-style accordion and five other instruments.

A son of Benton, Ark., Barnes was nicknamed “Sunpie” by his uncle, a blues pianist. He attended Henderson State University on a football scholarship but played music on the side throughout school, even keeping at it during his gridiron career with the Kansas City Chiefs and afterward, when he left pro ball and decided to join the National Park Service.

Early on Barnes worked with a host of New Orleans musicians, including the New Orleans Blues Department Band, R&B singer Barbara George and the late blues guitarist Boogie Bill Webb. Later he had his own zydeco group featuring players from Lafayette, Louisiana’s legendary music town.

In 1991 he founded the Sunspots, including in their ranks veteran drummer Harold Ray Brown, known for his work with War. The band has appeared at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Juneteenth Festival in Houston, the International Clarinette Festival in Martinique, and nightclubs throughout the Gulf South.

Barnes’ film and television work includes appearances in national commercial spots for AT&T, Nabisco and McDonalds, and in such films as “The Gates of Silence” and “Point of No Return.”

An accomplished musician equally at home with blues, zydeco and a spectrum of African and Caribbean styles, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes comes to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College to explore the music of the African Diaspora in a lecture-workshop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Barnes will begin the evening with a lecture and conclude with a workshop for singers, songwriters and musicians. Sponsored by the English department and the African American studies program at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, the event is open to the public at no charge.

A multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, Barnes leads the New Orleans-based band Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots by night. By day, he is a naturalist, wetlands expert and tour guide at Jean Lafitte National Park in the Crescent City — but his experience also includes a stint as a player in the National Football League and an actor in a number of film and television roles.

With four albums to his credit — Sunpie, Lick a Hot Skillet, Swamp Blues and Loup Garou — Barnes offers a musical blend that he characterizes as “bouje bouje,” Creole for “move.” The son of a blues harmonica player, he’s now regarded as one of New Orleans’ best on that instrument, influenced by such greats as Sonny Boy Williamson, Lee Oskar and Carey Bell. Similarly distinguished as a singer, Barnes also plays zydeco-style accordion and five other instruments.

A son of Benton, Ark., Barnes was nicknamed “Sunpie” by his uncle, a blues pianist. He attended Henderson State University on a football scholarship but played music on the side throughout school, even keeping at it during his gridiron career with the Kansas City Chiefs and afterward, when he left pro ball and decided to join the National Park Service.

Early on Barnes worked with a host of New Orleans musicians, including the New Orleans Blues Department Band, R&B singer Barbara George and the late blues guitarist Boogie Bill Webb. Later he had his own zydeco group featuring players from Lafayette, Louisiana’s legendary music town.

In 1991 he founded the Sunspots, including in their ranks veteran drummer Harold Ray Brown, known for his work with War. The band has appeared at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Juneteenth Festival in Houston, the International Clarinette Festival in Martinique, and nightclubs throughout the Gulf South.

Barnes’ film and television work includes appearances in national commercial spots for AT&T, Nabisco and McDonalds, and in such films as The Gates of Silence and Point of No Return.