DRIVING ALL NIGHT - How to Raise a Kid and Survive as a Broke-ass Musician
by Ed Harnell
Sep. 19 - Sep. 21
Thursday-Saturday
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 one-man show about parenting, written and performed by Ed Hamell
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.
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.
The world premiere performances of Driving All Night play at Hyde Park Theatre on September 19, 20 and 21.
A gallery of Hamell’s original paintings will be on display in the theatre lobby and available for purchase and signing by the artist after the show.
Hyde Park Theatre is located at 511 W 43rd Street. Covered off-street parking for patrons of HPT is available during performances in the lot at 4315 Guadalupe, just to the north of the late and much lamented Parlor. You can drive through The Parlor’s former parking lot to reach it. Evening HPT parking is also available at the Hyde Park Church of Christ on the northeast corner of 43rd and Avenue B.
More info about Hamell on Trial: www.hamellontrial.org
DRIVING ALL NIGHT - How to Raise a Kid and Survive as a Broke-ass Musician
by Ed Harnell
Ed Harnell
September 19 - September 21, 2024
World premiere: September 19, 20 and 21
The show goes up at 8 pm and the house will open thirty minutes before showtime.
Hyde Park Theatre, 43rd Street and Guadalupe, Austin
Tickets are $25. Purchase tickets online at hydeparktheatre.org or call 512-479-PLAY (7529) for reservations.
