Indie folk singer-songwriter Clara Benin is marking 10 years of music making with a concert that brings her earliest work to the foreground.
Following the sold-out success of her 2023 show at the Music Museum, she’s returning this October with a new production that reimagines her debut material through a 30-piece orchestra. Presented by minsan studio and arranged by composer Ria Villena-Osorio, the two-night show will run at the Manila Metropolitan Theater on October 3 and 4.
Titled Born On A Rainy Night: Celebrating 10 Years of Human Eyes and Riverchild, the concert highlights songs from her 2015 debut Human Eyes and the follow-up EP Riverchild. The material holds up, even as Benin shifts its form into something more cinematic. Her understated songwriting, which helped set her apart from the start in the indie scenes of Metro Manila, gets room to breathe in a bigger sonic frame.
“It’s not necessarily leading into a new release; maybe something will come out of it, maybe it won’t,” Benin says in a press statement. “But it definitely feels like a bridge between the past and the future. Working on these arrangements has been grounding, and it’s given me a clearer sense of where I want to go next.”
She’s not in a rush to change who she is, but she’s always been deliberate. A decade in, she’s earned multiple accolades including People’s Favorite Female Artist at the 34th Awit Awards back in 2021. This show is less about remembering the past than it is about taking stock of what still matters. Benin’s signature style of music may be quiet, but lingers for years.
Tickets to Born On A Rainy Night: Celebrating 10 Years of Human Eyes and Riverchild will be available starting Wednesday, July 30, 2025, via www.minsan.studio. Early bird ticket prices are available for a limited time only.
