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Join us for a very special evening featuring a medley of live music, poetry and interviews with Stu Dias (Soggy Po’ Boys), Rebecca Hennessy (poet), Jake Mehrmann (Tan Vampires), Pale Wallace (Jim Rioux & Guy Capecelatro III), Jim Rioux (poet/songwriter) - and hosts Dylan Metrano & Guy Capecelatro III.
This live show and taping at the Word Barn focuses on local poets and singers who are part of the Burst & Bloom family.
Poets Jim Rioux and Rebecca Hennessy will read from their books and talk with our hosts. There will be music from singers Stu Dias (Soggy Po Boys) and Jake Mehrmann (Tan Vampires), who are both readying solo albums for the label later this year.
Be the first to hear their new material in an intimate setting.
Additionally, Capecelatro and Rioux's collaborative musical project Pale Wallace will perform live for only the second time ever. A rare treat!
This event is one-night-only, and promises to be an unforgettable night of music, words, and community. We hope you can join us.
ABOUT BURST & BLOOM PODCAST
The Burst & Bloom Podcast started in January to celebrate the Maine-based record label's fifteenth anniversary. Burst & Bloom has released over 100 CD's, LP's, books, DVD's and more, including albums by Hello Shark, Friendship, Tiger Saw, Mara Flynn, Guy Capecelatro, as well as tributes to Jason Molina, Brown Bird, and others.
Each episode of the weekly podcast focuses on one release, and hosts Dylan Metrano and Guy Capecelatro III interview someone behind the making of the album. The freewheeling discussions can be enlightening, funny, serious, and insightful.
The Burst & Bloom Podcast can be heard on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, with new episodes each Monday.
JAKE MEHRMANN
Jake Mehrmann was the lead singer and songwriter for the incredibly dynamic band Tan Vampires who released the albums For Physical Fitness and Ephemera. As well, Mehrmann has contributed his unique vocals to projects by Timekillers, Moe Pope and Rain, STL GLD and Guy Capecelatro III. Tan Vampires had a song on MTV’s Teen Mom and toured the states sharing stages with Yo La Tengo, Deer Tick and Felice Brothers, performing at South by Southwest, Sundance Film Festival and on NPR.
STU DIAS
Stu Dias is a formidable force in the Seacoast music scene performing in the bands Soggy Po’ Boys, Sojoy, Stu Dias and the Ancient Well, Wizardess amongst others and now, under his own name. Dias formed the concert series Diaspora Radio where he and a rotating cast of like-minded performers cover an entire album live once a month, taking on difficult and wildly varied albums such as Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, Radiohead’s Kid A, Portishead’s Dummy and many more. His incredible voice and musical exploration bring a grit and gravitas to all the bands he’s a part of.
JIM RIOUX
Jim Rioux’s first book of poems, Fistfuls of the Invisible, was published by Penhallow Press. Burst & Bloom released the book Too Close to Be So Far Away: Selected Sonnets in 2024. In addition to appearing on many albums as a multi-instrumentalist, he is a singer/songwriter; releasing the albums Darlings of the Soil (2016), yes I will Yes (2018), and The Hook (2023); the EP Mercury (2023); and the singles “Season of the Stranger” (2022) and “Some Kind of Ghost—featuring Jolie Holland” (2021). Jim teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire and lives in Kittery, ME with his wife Amanda and their dog Jimbo.
PALE WALLACE
Pale Wallace is a band who formed in 2013 by Jim Rioux and Guy Capecelatro III and have recorded and released 12 albums. Jim Rioux is a writing professor at the University and has published two books of poetry Fistfuls of the Invisible and Too Close to Be So Far Away and is a prolific musician playing a variety of instruments in various bands in Maine and New Hampshire. Guy Capecelatro III has published the books Some Women and Cape Breton Poems and has the forthcoming collection These Small Moments readied for spring release. He also plays and records in a wide array of musical projects throughout the Seacoast area.
REBECCA HENNESSY
Rebecca Hennessy studied writing and geology at the University of Utah before moving to New Hampshire. She is currently a garlic farmer, business owner, and mother. After focusing on other things she has come back to writing. Tangle of Bone is her first book of poems.
HOSTED BY
DYLAN METRANO
Dylan Metrano founded the band Tiger Saw in 1999 in Newburyport. They're releasing their ninth album "Card Tricks for the Love Sick" in May. Dylan runs the record label Burst & Bloom with Guy Capecelatro III, and has also played in the bands Hotel Alexis, Cape Snow, and Hamlet Idiot. He is a paper-cutting artist whose work has been shown in many galleries, and he has created artwork for book, album covers, and concert posters. He and his wife Mandy live in Bath, Maine, where they put on shows and operate La Nef Chocolate, a small batch boutique chocolate company. Dylan was also a finalist in the 2022 New England's Funniest Comedian competition.
GUY CAPECELATRO III
Guy Capecelatro III is the author of the books Some Women and Cape Breton Poems and the forthcoming These Small Moments. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Story Quarterly, The Hawaii Review, The Square, The Wire, Dasein, Utter, The Penguin Review, Spotlight Magazine, Hi-Fi Magazine, Rollerderby, Multi-Ball, Mono, Aegis, Boston Rock and Tray-Full of Lab Mice Productions. For four years he was the editor of the ‘zine Two-Ton Santa.
He is also prolific singer-songwriter, winning five Spotlight awards for his albums over the years and an Inspiration Award from Portsmouth Public Media Television in 2018. Along with Dylan Metrano, Capecelatro runs the label Burst and Bloom which releases music and books for a variety of artists all over the country and currently lives in Kittery Maine with his cat Delilah.