Trina Hamlin is known for her sizzling blues harmonica and her energy-packed singing and guitar work. Her pure voice and unspoiled powerful presence have gained the singer-songwriter from Minneapolis a steady national following since she began playing solo shows on the downtown New York City club scene.
Hamlin attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated with a degree in Professional Music. Afterwards, she moved to New York City and began performing and honing her songwriting skills. She was chosen as a "Most Wanted New Artist" at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival and as an alumnus of the Newport Folk Festival, performed to a sold out crowd along with Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams and the Indigo Girls. She has shared stages with Ricki Lee Jones, John Hiatt, Duncan Sheik and Paula Cole and performed on The Late Show with Conan O' Brian with the "Suits" Her music has been heard in the CBS-TV movie "Friends at Last," starring Kathleen Turner as well as on the WB’s "Dawson’s Creek".

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This indie singer/songwriter has been criss-crossing the country in her battered Volvo since 2002. She’s been sighted everywhere from the San Diego Indie Music Fest to Cambridge’s Club Passim & NY’s legendary Bitter End. In between releasing 5 CDs on her own label, Girl’s Gotta Eat Records, she’s shared stages with Melissa Ferrick, Jill Sobule, Michelle Shocked, Alix Olson, Garrison Starr, & Tim Easton. She's a 4-time Outmusic award nominee whose music has been featured in the Advocate, Chicago Free Press, Tucson Weekly, & Performing Songwriter. She received 2006 Tucson Area Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist & Acoustic Guitar, & she’s a semi-finalist for the 2006 International World Music Series. The real reason to come see her? Namoli is sheer musical bliss when she’s singing her songs, songs that offer an unmatched poetic wit & a funky style of folk that's inspired & original. You’ll walk away with that uniquely wonderful feeling that you get when you’ve just heard an artist who effortlessly touches your very breath. She’s a rare & true prodigy who, while playing guitar and singing, often straps on a harmonica, plays a bass drum with her right foot and a tambourine with her left & makes all of it effortlessly support her achingly personal & precise songs.