Mixing an ever evolving batch of homegrown originals with a few rare hidden gems from deep within the vault of musical treasures, Horse Drawn Cadillac makes you feel like you are on a wayward journey to New Orleans via Chicago - a bump and roll ride with some high octane

horses.

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A 9 piece band powered by a trio of soulful and gritty singers - Amanda Bartley ( Midnight Feast), Tegan Portener ( Casuarina Light Phenomenon), and Pearl Noire (several !) and driven by players with a Cadillac full of festival experience, both prior and including HDC : Nello -harmonica (Southerly Change /Benji and the Saltwater Sound System/ Big Erle/Ecobeat), Wayne Rigby Sax and flute ( The Specialties,Bonnie Kaye and the Bona Fides, Wil Van Eckert -drums (Low Down Riders, CK and the 45’s), Duff Riley- percussion (Ramstone) and the dual guitar attack of Matt and Marcus Adamson ,and many more “hitchhikers” who hop on board the Cadillac at various events , including regulars Jonno Dallimore ( Cass Eager, Benji ), and Jaden Spence… keyboards (well, that’s a full festival lineup, and HDC is a jam band, and venues/budgets may mean less players, but the core is always there….

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Originally it was Trev's idea with his washboard and cravings for the Southern USA..... he felt there were musical stories to be told.....

We were standing on the corner of then & now, contemplating the musical shape of this world we were born into - it seemed like time was running out..

What to do with what we had left - which was a considerable amount - So we gathered the band for a wayward post apocalyptic journey..and we started out in Chicago……