The Bon Temps Bros

About this show

Gate opens 7pm, Music starts 7.30pm. Pip Payne, Richard Klein and Alan Norman are The Bon Temps Bros. PIP PAYNE, a regular player and founder of Capital Blues is back with another musical variation. Pip has had many artistic guises over the years which shows not only his versatility, bluesy vocals but also his depth of the music. He plays slide guitar, and plays regularly with Wayne Mason, Pops & The Tempests, the Caramellos, Dean Martinborough, Laura Collins Back Porch Band and more. Originally from Dorking, he now lives in Otaki Beach. RICHARD KLEIN is a high energy singing fiddler born in Orange, New Jersey. In his early teens he discovered folk and roots music through listening to the likes of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and The New Lost City Ramblers. Travelling to Cape Breton Island in mid 1970s sparked the interest for Celtic music that later brought Richard to travel, live, work and busk extensively through Ireland and the British Isles. A chance meeting with a gang of Swedish fiddlers in Shetland in 1978 introduced another important influence in his fiddle style. But it was being properly introduced to Cajun music later that same year in France that had the most profound impact on his music. Resident in Wellington since 1997, Richard is best known for his collaboration with the Le Blanc Brothers Cajun Band (Melbourne) and the geographically challenged Kiwi Americana band. T-Bone. In 2023 he relinquished his American citizenship.…

Description from the Under the Radar listing.