Out Late with Diana Di Gioia at Hyannis Main Street Songwriter Series

Out Late’s Diana Di Gioia’s original songs combine word nerd lyrics with rock n roll energy, with influences from 60s and 70s power pop to songwriting masters like Lucinda Williams, John Prine and Bonnie Raitt. The Cape Cod Times describes her songs as “finely honed narratives with telling details”, and Payomet Center for the Arts says “Diana and her band bring youthful energy, exuberant sound and fun storytelling to her original body of songs”. The band includes Di Gioia on vocals and rhythm guitar, Alex Pashoian on lead guitar, Melody Masi on backing vocals and Melissa Weidman on bass. Together they create a rich sound powered by danceable rhythms and compelling harmonies, with influences from surf to folk, rockabilly to swing blues.

A 2021 Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Grant Recipient, Di Gioia’s first CD “Out Late” aired on the nationally syndicated American Public Radio Series “This Way Out”. Her follow up album, “Either/Or World”, completed in 2012, features the local favorite “Ptown Pants” and the title track, a cheeky take on existing outside the gender binary. 2018’s “Nevermore” was launched just days after the band’s breakout performance at the Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival. Di Gioia and the new album were also featured on WCAI’s The Point with Mindy Todd, WOMR’s The Old Song’s Home with Bob Weiser and Ocean 104’s “The Cheap Seats” with Cat Wilson. In September 2021 she was selected to perform during the New England Regional Folk Alliance Fall Conference, as part of the DJ Showcase.

A native of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Diana is a long time Cape resident, and currently resides in West Barnstable with her wife and band mate, Melody and their back yard chickens.