Howdy everybody! This is our new website and it is in the process of being completed. The gig list is up-to-date, some of the rest we are working on. Check out all the photos on the Pictures/Family of Bands Page and Photos from Our Musical Past. You can find info on all of our CDs in the GENERAL STORE.
Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie, BAYOU SECO's roots are deep in the southwest but their branches reach far across the world.
WHAT DO WE DO?
We have collected music from older traditional American musicians for most of our lives and we have learned to play many of their tunes and songs. We have especially focused on Cajun music in SW Louisiana and, since 1980, we have learned from traditional Hispanic, Cowboy, and Tohono O'Odham musicians in New Mexico and Arizona. Both of us play fiddle and guitar and sing. Ken also plays one and three row diatonic accordions, 5-string banjo (fretless and freted), harmonica, and mandolin. We play concerts, dances (where we can teach Spanish Colonial dances from New Mexico and other dances), Art Centers, Schools, Museums, Folk Clubs, Weddings, Wakes, State Fairs and other types of events. For more info on our background, check out the PRESS KIT and read the interview with us by Vic Smith.
NEW HARMONIES, CELEBRATING AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC
This is a travelling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution and organized and funded by our own New Mexico Humanities Council. It covers a wide range of American Roots Music from gospel to cajun and everything in between.
For more information Click Here: New Harmonies
BUYING CDS : If you wish to purchase a CD, please go directly to the GENERAL STORE and follow the instructions. THANK YOU
OBAMA'S TRAIN
We have two videos of us singing 'Obama's Train', a song we wrote for the opening of the Obama campaign headquarters in Silver City, New Mexico. You can connect to these videos on the 'Links' page. We also have links to some other videos of us teaching a workshop and of parts of a performance at the Hitchin
"Rhythms of the World Festival - 2009".
TO REACH BAYOU SECO:
E-Mail: you can contact us through the CONTACT page on the menu.
Address: Bayou Seco, PO Box 1393, Silver City, NM 88062
Tel. 575-534-0298
