Round Robin with guest curator Guy Capecelatro III
Portsmouth is a unique environment musically, in that it’s a small town with an incredibly deep and varied pool of musicians. You will find folks willing to cross genre lines and ably support fellow musicians without a tinge of competitiveness. When the local paper, The Wire started the RPM Challenge several years ago, 165 local participants jumped in and wrote and recorded a full album in the month of February. For a town with twenty thousand people that’s downright staggering.
Saturday the 25th, I’ll be performing at the Music Hall Loft with some such amazingly talented friends. Mara Flynn has performed under the moniker Milksop Holly, as well as her own name all over the country and sings deeply personal and affecting songs with such staggering passion. Craig Werth is a masterful multi-instrumentalist who has played his music across the world and won a Juno award with folk singer David Francey. Zach Tremblay is an up and coming songwriter who recorded 5 albums before turning the age of 21 and continues to grow and develop his own unique style. As well, we’ll be joined by the incredibly talented Juliet Nelson on cello and vocals.
The evening will find us collaborating and harmonizing and spontaneously jumping in and out of one another’s songs. We’ll be performing “in the round” wherein we’ll all be on stage at once, helping find each other’s voice and bringing the songs to a place not previously realized. I feel ever blessed to have such an amazing group of friends and am brimming with anticipation to see where the evening will bring us.
Read more about the Round Robin here.
Guy picked up the guitar when he was 10 years old, allegedly “never getting any better at it” after 20-something years of playing. Between 1988 and the birth of his record label Two Ton Santa, Guy was in the bands Fancy Pants, Toast, Size of Guam, The Driveways, Up-a-Tree, Beekeeper, The Pants, Bob & Guy, and The Crotch Wax Menace, “and probably some others I’m forgetting as well,” he guesses.