Folk Bands and Artists
Hamell on Trial
Headliner and one-man explosion, Hamell on Trial, is a dynamic performance
informed by politics, passion, intelligence and the all-important sense of humor.
Armed with a battered acoustic guitar that he amplifies mightily and strums like a
machine gun, a politically astute mind that can’t stop moving, and a mouth that can
be profane one minute and profound the next, Hamell’s caustic wit and
devil-may-care attitude has long been a favorite of anti-establishment icons Aesop
Rock, Kimya Dawson, and has toured extensively with folk legend Ani DiFranco. His
performances invoke thoughts of the great, rebellious satirists and social
commentators of the past: Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks. There’s no
way around his obscenity but in that is a willingness to fight for the free thinkers of
the world.
“Bald, bold and superbad!” Rolling Stone magazine
“one man Tarantino flick: loud, vicious, luridly hilarious, gleefully and deeply
offensive” – the Village Voice