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Dereen Shirnekhi

Hi I'm Dereen Shirnekhi
7 posts
New Haven

Snake Hill Blues Gets Gritty

For the first time, WNHH’s Tuesdays @ the Mediterranea Cafe concert series featured a saxophone, a harmonica, and a golden trumpet — though the last wasn’t making any sound. That

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Dereen Shirnekhi
15 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven

Always Morning Brings The Heat

At the onset of the summer’s first heat wave, the beat and the vocals were heating up inside as a new project took the de facto stage in a

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Dereen Shirnekhi
21 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven

Love n’Co Brings The Love

In the back room hookah lounge of the Mediterranea Cafe, Love n’Co gave a sneak peak into their musical take on chocolate and hope, a week before it lands

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Dereen Shirnekhi
17 May 2024 · 3 min read
Waxahatchee Rises New Haven

Waxahatchee Rises

Waxahatchee Toad’s Place New Haven April 25, 2024 “I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.” It was a refrain I’d heard maybe

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Dereen Shirnekhi
26 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven

Split Coils Grinds The Hookah Lounge

After a day of driving heavy machinery, Joe Ballaro plugged in his bass, and the show began. “We are lost and a long way from found,” sang J. Russell, lead

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Dereen Shirnekhi
18 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Orange Street Goes To Hell New Haven

Orange Street Goes To Hell

In the backroom lounge of Mediterranea Cafe, among centuries-old hookah pipes and patterned cushions, a fairy rising from the Underworld sang about darkness — and love, too. Hell Fairy is made

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Dereen Shirnekhi
11 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
Empanada Universe Expands New Haven

Empanada Universe Expands

Madeline’s Empanaderia 86 Spring St. Madeline, the 11-year-old cello player who is also the namesake of a Hill empanaderia, likes the Guava Lava her mother serves there — it’s

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Dereen Shirnekhi
1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
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