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Join us for a very special evening featuring a medley of live music, poetry and interviews with Guy Capecelatro III, Justin Carloni, Ambermor, Thom McCaffrey, Tiger Saw - 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.
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.
GUY CAPECALTRO 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.
JUSTIN CARLONI
Justin Carloni fronted the Burst & Bloom band Eastern Sleds, who released the album "There's No Place Left to Go" in 2018.
The songs… arrive upon a wave of epic melancholy, much like the music of The Cure but with an entirely different soundscape. Carloni is an unrequited dreamer, standing well apart from that sickly culture whose only rallying cry seems to be, “Celebritize me!” His lyrics are deeply personal yet the sense of shared longing felt by the listener becomes instantly realized as universal. - Wayne Atherton, Cafe Review
AMBERMOR
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, during state-mandated stay-at-home orders, songwriters Guy Capecelatro III from Kittery, ME, and Chris Cote from neighboring Portsmouth, NH began emailing demos back and forth. The unifying theme of the songs was the outdoors, something that had taken on new significance in those Spring and Summer months of 2020. The songs evolved into complete recordings, with Guy and Chris sharing vocal and instrumental duties, and trading takes back and forth between their homes until a finished album, “World In Flux,” was born.
As much a walk through the interiors of self-isolation as an escape from it, these songs, rising out of the newfound quiet of a world in flux, invite the listener to engage with the environment, observe nature’s overlooked details, and examine the changing substance of memory and experience in the wake of pandemic life.
This will be Ambermor's debut live performance.
TOM McCAFFREY
Thom McCaffrey is a poet living in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He sometimes draws and makes music. In 2012, Burst & Bloom released his book of poems, "I Have To Tell You and This is Not the Right Time.
TIGER SAW
In January 2015, Tiger Saw traveled to Monhegan Island, ten miles off the coast of Maine during a harsh winter storm, and set up a studio in a house on Horn Hill. They cooked meals together, and spent day and night writing and recording the songs that would become “Horn Hill”. The sessions were done quickly, huddled around a wood-burning stove.
The close harmonies sometimes recall the Everly Brothers, the minimalist arrangements owe a debt to their slowcore forbearers Low, and there are touches of the quiet-storm hymns of Yo La Tengo or late Velvet Underground.
The 2015 Tiger Saw lineup who recorded "Horn Hill" will reunite for one night only for this show, and includes Guy Capecelatro III, Dylan Metrano, Gregg Porter, and Djim Reynolds.
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.