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 17 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.

Armed with a battered 1937 Gibson acoustic guitar, a politically astute mind that can't stop moving, and a mouth that can be profane one minute and profound the next, Hamell shoots straight with his audience, whether unraveling topical issues or sharing confessional tales from his own past.

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.