What is Zydeco?

" Zydeco is the blues and dance music of the black Louisiana Creoles, French speakers who were brought to Louisiana as slaves by the French planters in the 18th Century. The roots of Zydeco music can be found in the hand-clapping and foot-stomping used by the field hands to pray and give thanks, which evolved and later incorporated blues, swamp pop, R& B, and Afro- Caribbean rhythms." Rocky Petralia