Ed Hamell, aka “Hamell On Trial” performed to an enthusiastic, capacity audience at Best Video in December of last year.  Now he’s coming back and he’s doing something a little different…

Every parent knows the struggles and triumphs that come with raising their kid.  How do you do it when your day job requires you to travel endlessly across the country, stopping nightly to sing songs for strangers in crowded dive bars?

Enigmatic folk-punk proletariat and legendary touring musician Ed Hamell – aka Hamell on Trial – has driven over a million miles, pinballing across the map over the course of a career spanning seventeen critically-acclaimed albums.  Hundreds of thousands of those miles on the road have been shared with his son – Detroit Hamell – who started spending weekends and summers on tour when he was six years old.   

In addition to examining Hamell and Hamell’s road exploits, Driving All Night explores the tumultuous real life day-to-day world of a working musician who lives as an artistic renegade on the fringes of the traditional music industry as an underground DIY artist.  

A veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe Award where he won the coveted Herald Angel Award, any Hamell on Trial show is a multidisciplinary experience drawing from the worlds of music, theatre, stand-up comedy and storytelling.  His performances invoke thoughts of the great satirists and social commentators of the past, from Lenny Bruce to Richard Pryor to Bill Hicks.  Driving All Night also features video design and  projection by Director / Producer Mike Henry.