Cyndi Lauper, Tom Tom Club and Taj Mahal are among the artists paying tribute to Cajun music on an upcoming disc. Due May 11 via Vanguard Records, "Creole Bred" also features contributions from Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and Darick and Phillip Campbell of noted inspirational act the Campbell Brothers, among others.

The compilation was assembled by Cajun music authority Ann Savoy, who collaborated with producer T Bone Burnett on the Creole infused soundtrack to the 2002 film "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."

The follow-up to 2002's similarly themed, Savoy-produced "Evangeline Made," the new set finds artists interpreting music with roots in the cultures of Louisiana natives, Haitian immigrants and Texas blues.

Backed by Nathan & the Zydeco Cha-Chas, Lauper remakes the band's own "Festival Zydeco" and revamps Clifton Chenier's "Allons À Grand Coteau." The band, sans Lauper, also recasts Chenier's "Zydeco Two-Step" and "I'm Coming Home." On the latter track, noted Cajun artists Keith Frank, Rosie Ledet and Sean Ardoin join the group.

Tom Tom Club reworks Frank's "Only the Strong Survive" for "Creole Bred," while bluesman Mahal adds his spice to Canray Fontenot's "Two-Step de Grand Mallet" and the Fontenot/Alphonse Ardoin track "'Tit Monde."

Here is the full "Creole Bred" soundtrack list:

"Allons À Grand Coteau," Cyndi Lauper
"Two-Step de Grand Mallet," Taj Mahal
"Only the Strong Survive," Tom Tom Club
"Baby Please Don't Go," Darick Campbell, Phillip Campbell, Curley Taylor
"Zydeco Two-Step," Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha-Chas
"I'm Coming Home," Keith Frank, Rosie Ledet, Sean Ardoin, Nathan Williams & the Zydeco Cha-Chas
"Mon Conné La Cause," David Hidalgo
"Mon Homme Est Pas 'Rivé," Sweet Honey In The Rock
"Paper in My Shoe," Michelle Shocked
"'Tit Monde," Taj Mahal
"Festival Zydeco," Cyndi Lauper
"Old Carpenter's Waltz," Ed Poullard with Darol Anger