Howdy everybody! This is our new website. The gig list is up-to-date - you can find out if we are playing near you. 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.
Our New CD, Bouquet, is now available. We know you will all enjoy it. Go to the General Store and order now.
Check out the Access All Areas website and the page on us at: www.accessallareas.info/artist_article/29/bayou-seco.htm
Great News - Antonia Apodaca and Bayou Seco will be at The Port Townsend, Washington Festival of American Fiddle tunes - July 1st to July 8th, 2012.
Here is a little about our friend Antonia Apodaca, whose house burned down last Dec. and is now living in her own place in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
For More on Antonia Apodaca click here: ANTONIA APODACA
Antonia Apodaca was born in 1923 in Rociada, New Mexico in the house in which she lived until Dec. 20, 2010, when her house burned to the ground. She lost everything but two of her accordions and her guitar. She has played traditional New Mexican music most of her life and continues to entertain throughout northern New Mexico. This tribute is to honor her and her music and to help her get through this very hard time in her life.
Antonia's cassette, RECUERDOS DE ROCIADA, has been re-released in CD format. It is available for purchase on our General Store page.
Bayou Seco and The National Hispanic Cultural Center
Presented
A Tribute to Antonia Apodaca - this happened last January, 2011
This was a wonderful show and a great help to Antonia and her family.
FEATURING ANTONIA APODACA with
Bayou Seco, Trio Jalapeno, José and Max Apodaca
Chuy Martinez and Otilio Ruiz!
BUYING CDS : If you wish to purchase a CD, please go directly to the GENERAL STORE and follow the instructions. THANK YOU
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
