South Wales-based contemporary roots band Bluehorses have pledged to rock Worcester's Huntingdon Hall when they appear at the venue on Saturday, September 8.

They guarantee a genre and age-transcending show that defies classification. Drummer/songwriter Nic Waulker has coined the term "celtadelia" to try and define their sound, but even he says he dreads being asked to describe it.

"We have a lot of different influences and we don't really fall into any one category," he says.

This is illustrated by his response when asked whether he would cite seminal artists Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention as influences.

"Of course we all love the Span," he says, "and they are obviously originators. They were the first to marry folk to a blues-rock kind of foundation and they laid the beginnings of the path we are treading. But they aren't direct influences. We all have very different musical tastes."

Their new album, Ten Leagues Beyond the Wild World's End, has a mixture of everything from a vocal and Celtic harp duet to rock with Nick Turner (formerly of Hawkwind) on sax.

Nic does a lot of arranging and writing for the band. He loves pastoral, English classical music by the likes of Elgar and Vaughan Williams and draws on the countryside himself for inspiration.

The other creative force, Liz Prendergast, formed the band when she met kindred spirit Emma Grainger at the Welsh College of Music and Drama's classical music course. Emma has now left the band, which today consists of Liz and new girl Debs Peake on electric violins, Nic on drums, Martyn Standings on guitar and Rob Khoo on bass.

Nic says he is looking forward to returning to Huntingdon Hall, where the band had a successful gig last year.

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