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Dutch treat: Friday Night Video

18 June 2010

Do you have to have a Mexican name to appreciate Conjunto?  After all, as the name suggests, it’s a musical melange of the Texas borderlands… where the Tejanos hung with the Cajuns and worked for the Czechs and Germans — having to use English (of a sort) as a common language, and somehow figure out how to get everybody to boogie.  It worked for them pretty well… and works for the TexMexplosion —  Dwayne Verheyden, Lynyrd van Riet, Geert Verheijden, and Wout van Koot … the Netherland’s best Conjunto banda, bar none:

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