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WHEELS & DEALS

in 2022 at the Oswego, NY HarborFest, headlining the Allentown Blues, Brews & BBQ festival.

Released in March 2022, her third album “Truth Hurts” is still receiving worldwide air play and has achieved over 40 consecutive weeks on the Roots Music Report charts. The album has been in rotation on BB King’s Sirius XM channel and all major blues radio worldwide.

She’ll be appearing August 4th at 8 p.m. at Bobbique 70 West Main Street Patchogue.

Reservations: bobbique.com/regina-bonelli

HOKO NEW SINGLE “IN THE SUMMER”

New York alternative band HOKO revealed a new single and music video entitled “In The Summer” via EQT Recordings/Republic Records.

HOKO’s ever-expanding sonic vision continues to unfurl on this captivating and catchy anthem set against an unpredictable soundscape. A slick bassline snakes

Regina Bonelli At Bobbique

Regina Bonelli is a New York Blues Hall of Fame artist, singer songwriter, keyboardist and producer with 3 chart topping blues/soul albums under her belt. She grew up in Brooklyn in a musical family and at 18 years old hit the live music scene as a performer and never looked back. She has played New York venues including multiple engagements at B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill and The Bitter End and festivals including headlining two nights

Birds Are Better New Release

The Island -- Part One, the debut by Norwegian singer-songwriter Stian Fjelldal’s new dream-folk project Birds Are Better has just been released to Spotify and all the major services. Creative and eclectic, Birds are Better owes as much to classic groups like Crosby, Stills & Nash as it does to more modern fare like Fleet Foxes, The Flaming Lips and Susanne Sundfør.

year, Part One captures Fjelldal’s emergence from a bout of writer’s block that saw the veteran artist plagued by self-doubt and malaise. Highlight tracks include “Marigold”, “Fencing You In” and the title track, “The Island”.

The Island -- Part One is clearly the work of a singer/ songwriter reveling in his newfound sense of creative freedom and resurgence.

“In the summer, in the summer, that’s where I want to be.” Meanwhile, the music video brings this energy to life on screen.

HOKO stretch alternative into 360-degree pop. Painting in broad strokes of psychedelia and rock, they unearth an uncategorizable and undeniable sound equally mal-bers - Nathaniel Hoho [vocals] and Jesse Kotansky met in Brooklyn through a community of now well known NY based artists, musicians and actors. Central Pennsylvania native Nathaniel honed his chops on the streets, traveling from one college and beach to another, busking to survive, and sleeping in the car. Eventually, he settled in Brooklyn.