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ROLLING POSTCARD - NOVEMBER - 2007
Our tour in Euskal Herria - the Basque country and in Gascon in SW France.
ROLLING POSTCARD - JUNE AND JULY - 2007
Summer tour in France and Germany
ROLLING POSTCARD - MARCH 2007
An article we wrote for the Desert Exposure about our trip to Europe in 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and hopefully well into the future.
ROLLING POSTCARD 2006
This article can also be found on the Detour Band site of our friends Jean-marie and Natalie: http://www.duodetour.com/bayouseco/postcard2006.html
ROLLING POSTCARD 2005
This can also be found at the Detour Band website: http://www.duodetour.com/bayouseco/postcard2005.html
ROLLING POSTCARD 2004
MUSICAL TRADITIONS INTEVIEW WITH BAYOU SECO by VIC SMITH
An in depth interview with Ken and Jeanie.
FIDDLER MAGAZINE ARTICLE - SUMMER 2007
An article based on an interview with Gus garlick.
THE BAYOU SECO STORY
Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie, who form the heart of Bayou Seco, have been researching and playing the music of the Southwest USA - from the Mississippi to the deserts of Arizona - for twenty two years.
Respectfully drawing from these traditions and from their own ancestors, they present to the public an exciting and informative overview of Southwestern music on diatonic accordions, fiddles, guitar, mandolin, banjo and harmonica.
Jeanie McLerie has been a professional musician since 1962, performing in the US, Canada and Europe with the groups Sandy and Jeanie, The Harmony Sisters and The Delta Sisters.
In 1985, she started a school of fiddle instruction called "The Fiddling Friends", which focuses on an international repertoire of fiddle styles and music, with an emphasis on the sources of the music, including personal contact with traditional musicians.
Being from a very musical family from New Mexico, Arizona and California, Ken Keppeler, a fourth generation Southwesterner, grew up with the music of the region.
He has been a professional musician since 1972 and performed with the Hogwood String Band and with Bo Lpari and Jim Wimmer in Europe in the mid 70's before joining Jeanie in Louisiana. He is also a violin maker and, with his partner Peter White, has made over 160 instruments that are being played throughout the United States. They are the only people who make five string violins as an instrument specifically for that purpose as opposed to simply making a regular four string violin and sticking another string on it
As part of Bayou Seco's continuing effort to document traditional musicians in the Southwest, he completed a survey of cowboy music and dance for the Smithsonian Institute and has a degree from the University of New Mexico in American Studies.
Both Keppeler and McLerie have apprenticed (studied for two years of longer) with the following master musicians: Dennis McGee (perhaps the greatest Cajun fiddler), Canray Fontenot (Creole fiddler), Maurice Berzas and Alphonse 'Bois Sec' Ardoin (Cajun accordeon players), Cleofes Ortiz (traditional New Mexican violinista), Antonia Apodaca (traditional New Mexican accordionist, guitarist and singer) and Elliott Johnson (highly respected Tohono O'Odham (Papago) violinist.
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