Benedict Hawkin - The Cumberland Arms

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm UTC+00:00

The Cumberland Arms | Newcastle Upon Tyne

Benedict Hawkin
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Benedict Hawkin - The Cumberland Arms
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Tickets £7.50 ADV, £10 OTD
Available from https://wegottickets.com/event/672849
This October, Benedict Hawkin is returning to his former haunt to perform an afternoon concert of progressive folk.
Benedict Hawkin is a Northumbrian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. A rural childhood steeped in traditional music and a youth spent in Newcastle’s DIY, experimental, and art rock scene informs songs that are firmly rooted in the folk-singer idiom but are just as often angular and dissonant as they are beautiful or harmonious.
His idiosyncratic and distinctive yet skilled guitar technique draws from folk, blues, and country, yet still carries the provocative streak that gained him notoriety as an electric guitarist. Lyrically, he explores the interaction of rural and urban, the North/South divide, class conflict, and the search for meaning and purpose while feeling constrained by circumstance and identity.
‘Surreal and brilliantly impressionistic… there doesn’t seem to be anything he can’t do with his Fender… Beautiful, rousing, and just a bit magical.’ Narc Magazine
'Very excellent... bursting with ideas, but ideas you can really hang your hat'. The Crack Magazine
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