THE LIVING Room @ The Space starts up its new season this weekend with long-established favourites of the British festival circuit, Bayou Seco.

Founders of the band, Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie, met in Louisiana where they discovered a common love of Cajun music.

Since then they have travelled down many a dirt road to learn and absorb indigenous music first hand from the oldest masters.

From Louisiana they moved to New Mexico and learned old Spanish colonial dances from violinist Cleofes Ortiz, and Native American music from the Tohono O'odham fiddlers to name but a few inspirational meetings.

"With more than 20 years of gigging behind them, Bayou Seco can rip up a dance floor from the first squeeze and are gorgeous people to boot," said organiser Rachel Thomas.

"It's fiddle, accordion, banjo and guitar from just the two of them."

In the spirit of a Louisiana Fais dos-dos, they will be playing a family dance set at The Space on Friday, September 2, starting a little earlier than usual with the doors opening at 7pm.

Tickets are £7.50 or £4.00 for under 16s. There will be no advance sales, just turn up and buy tickets on the door.

There are few better ways of starting autumn than taking the whole family and dance to the infectious rhythms of Cajun and Zydeco tunes, enjoy a little chicken scratch and belt out the chorus of a cowboy song, dip into the rich chilli gumbo of American traditional music.