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Cajun and zydeco music are unique genres in the American landscape because of their sound, their history and their continued significance to two groups displaced from their homelands into the bayous of Louisiana: the Cajuns and the Creoles. One man straddles the two genres.                           Texas-born Cedric Watson, now a four-time Grammy nominee, is seemingly an outsider in this landscape, but he is reviving l'esprit Creole (the Creole spirit). In what would prove to be a propitious gig, at last year's Festival International de Louisiane's Rhythms and Roots series at Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette, Watson et Bijou Créole appeared along with Morikeba Kouyate of Senegal. The two alternated, imitating and complementing each other's instruments through a series of traditional West African and zydeco tunes.