WEST Devon folk-poppers Equation are back home after hitting all the right notes Stateside.
Now the Crapstone-based band are getting their breath back before embarking on a spring tour of Britain.
During their recent six-week American coast-to-coast tour, Equation played sell-out shows, did dozens of radio interviews and TV shows.
'It all began when the World Music label Putumayo approached Warner for the licence to release our first album 'Hazy Daze' in the States,' said the band's singer Kathryn Roberts.
'Our first trip to America last year was pretty amazing, but this six-week tour, although exhausting, has been extraordinary.'
Fiddle player and songwriter Seth Lakeman — who, with brother Sean, is a founder member — said the band's profile had escalated 'quite rapidly' in America.
To their delight, they have found themselves catapulted into the huge, competitive US market and found their audiences clamouring for more.
'We have never been able to quite hit it off in this country. Here the live music is starting to die off a bit — but in America they go to live gigs and they will dance to our music,' he said.
'The West Coast, California, Seattle — those places are just ideal for our type of music so we are going back there in the summer.'
While 'Hazy Daze' introduced the band to America, it is their current album 'Lucky Few' with its driving, up-beat tracks that has further enhanced Equation's reputation.
'America is a very competitive place to take a band — especially from our point of view playing their style of music. But it is good that Americans have got a soft spot for the English and our style of music.'
Equation — Kathryn Roberts (vocals), Sean Lakeman (guitars), Seth Lakeman (vocals, violin), Darren Edwards (bass), Ian Goodall (drums) and James Crocker (electric guitar) — return to America for three weeks in the summer and another five weeks in the autumn.
In the meantime, the nearest gig on their British tour will be on Saturday, June 3, at the Phoenix, Exeter.