Bon Temp Bros @ Mike’s Pip Payne & Richard Klein

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