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Gary Hoey - Ho Ho Hoey: Christmas Time Is Here

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: December 11, 2025

There has not been, in the last 30 years of Rock and Roll, a music artist that has been capable to take Winter Holiday classics to the next level and transform them in precious little gems of Surf, Hard-Rock and Metal quite like the Boston Guitar Supremo and singer/songwriter Gary Hoey has been able to do so far in his remarkable career.

Through an experiment that was born back in 1995 and released the same year, called Ho! Ho! Hoey, where Gary Hoey decided to give a full instrumental Rock treatment to classics like Jingle Bells, White Christmas and Auld Lang Syne, among others, Hoey has started a rather successful tradition, in the last 3 decades, by touring the United States performing live shows made of sole Winter Holiday classics Hoey recorded.

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Bluebird Reviews Awards 2025 - The Winners

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: November 27, 2025

2025 has been another fabulous year of music. The health of this extraordinary art form is now, more than ever, strong and powerful under many aspects, as the caliber of the records reviewed by our website this year clearly confirms.

At Bluebird Reviews, we are honored to review, year after year, music artists of exceptional ability that help to provide, through their amazing artistic skills, the best possible platform to inspire the current generation of musicians from all around the globe and the future generations to come.

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Adam Forkelid - Dreams

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Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
Published: November 24, 2025

One of the ultimate goals for an artist, any artist in any music genre, it is to create an emotional symmetry between said artist and a crowd, a concept that finds its application and validation solely through a life performance.

While this goal may be relatively easier to achieve in a large, noisy context such as an arena, with several thousands people clapping and singing to an artist or a band playing their biggest hits, to play for an audience of only 50 people instead and being able to take that crowd to join that artist on a musical journey, armed with only a grand piano and few sonic sketches on which to improvise on for an hour or so, that requests bags of pure talent.

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