Chilegumbo: Spicy Tunes from Louisiana to New Mexico

Bayou Seco’s roots are deep in the Southwest but their branches reach far across the world. Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie have collected music from older traditional American musicians for most of their lives. They play many of the tunes and songs they’ve collected, focusing on Cajun music of Southwestern Louisiana and, since 1980, the traditional Hispanic, Cowboy and Tohono O’Odham music of New Mexico and Arizona. Both Ken and Jeanie play fiddle and guitar and sing. Ken also plays one- and three-row diatonic accordions, 5-string banjo (fretless and fretted), harmonica and mandolin. Bayou Seco also founded a community radio station, KURU 89.1 FM, in Silver City, NM, where they currently reside.