Lost Bayou Ramblers and Zydepunks

Whether performing in their native Louisiana or abroad, the Lost Bayou Ramblers passionately embrace their cultural and musical heritage, playing music intimately linked to the agrarian, working class lifestyle. Their music stems from a time before electricity, when the Gulf Coast's incapacitating heat only amplified the backbreaking stresses associated with the toil necessary to sustain a successful farm. Indeed, south Louisiana's work ethic was the natural force that ground through the Cajun ego, liberating in song the fervor and spirit of a people. The Lost Bayou Ramblers are like a snapshot of a bygone era. Their music is emotionally raw, intense - in a word, authentically Cajun.

The Zydepunks tear it up on accordion, fiddle, and drums while singing songs from far away but close to their hearts. Crossing genres with the greatest of ease, their music falls under the category "Cajun Irish Breton French Klezmer Slavic Zydeco Punk."

Inspired by bands like the Pogues, the Ukrainians, and the Clash, the Zydepunks have taken the New Orleans underground music scene by storm with their speedy and amped-up versions of European and Louisiana folk songs.