The Zydepunks have been performing internationally since 2003.
May 1, 2008
by DAVID FRICKE
The Zydepunks - a New Orleans quintet with dueling accordions and fiddles instead of rock guitars - play a fast, whirling music that is not just zydeco and way more than punk. Their set at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival had the Cajun waltzers baffled. Everyone else just jumped for joy to the speed-core melange of klezmer tornadoes, Balkan dances, Celtic reels and bayou-squeezebox war.
May 1, 2008
by EDNA GUNDERSON
With furious energy, The Zydepunks, a young genre-defying New Orleans group featuring drums, bass and dueling violins and accordions, wail through a variety of original mash-ups blending Yiddish, zydeco, Klezmer, rock, Irish, Cajun and Slavic music.
