Pip Payne and Richard Klein - slide guitar, a fiddle and two voices.

Acoustic Cajun blues — hot Louisiana music. If you're drawn to syncopation, you will appreciate that what happens between them is very special.

Pip Payne: His musical hats include: blues club founder, bandleader, vocalist, swing music lover, roots gospel devotee and slide guitarist. He doesn’t just play; he inhabits his music.

Richard Klein is a fiddler and vocalist from Orange, New Jersey - through to the UK and into France, where Cajun music reached out. Wellington-based since 1997, he founded the city's beloved Americana jam sessions and has played with the Le Blanc Brothers Cajun Band and Kiwi outfit T-Bone.

It started as a few tunes around a Kapiti kitchen table.
Those sessions grew into a repertoire that moves between Cajun rhythm, blues, and country roots tradition — music that sounds a lot like musicians having fun.

Bon Temp — French for good times