The Bon Temps Bros

The Undercurrent presents The Bon Temps Bros!

Acoustic Cajun blues and Louisiana music. Three musicians with a shared love of syncopation, improvisation and the spaces between.

It started with a few tunes around a Kāpiti kitchen table. Those sessions grew into a repertoire that wanders between Cajun rhythms, blues and country roots traditions. Music that sounds a lot like musicians having fun.

Richard Klein is a fiddler and vocalist from Orange, New Jersey, whose musical journey took him through the UK and into France, where he discovered Cajun music. Wellington-based since 1997, he founded the city's much-loved Americana jam sessions and has played with the Le Blanc Brothers Cajun Band and Kiwi outfit T-Bone (playing Womad this year).

Pip Payne wears a few musical hats: blues club founder, bandleader, vocalist, swing music lover, roots gospel devotee and slide guitarist. His playing draws on a lifetime spent exploring the backroads of…