Howling At The Moon

On Saturday night, we were singing our hearts out at a bar down in the city. A friend of ours, Steve, has been telling us about this bar for a while now, and it always sounded like a great place, so when another friend decided this was the place for her birthday, I think we were about the first people to sign up.



If you read Lorraine's blog, you will note that so far, we have been less than impressed with the night life here. Due to the fact that they live so far away from each other, people quite often go home at around 9pm, no matter what night of the week it is, although the couple of house parties we have had have been much later attended. Additionally, when the Sox were in the World Series, we were both very surprised by how quiet the local bars here were, especially given that it had been almost a century since their last world series!

Well, Howl At The Moon was the atmosphere we have been missing from home. We arrived around 7pm, and the place was already jumping. We felt a bit like celebrities when we just dropped the car at the door, and a valet whisked it away, for the bargain price of $15. Heading inside we met up with Travis & Karen (the birthday girl). The music was already in full swing. Now I would say that dueling pianos, would somehow be, I dunno, dueling! They were in fact playing complimentary to each other, but this didn't take anything away from the fun.

They take requests, and seem to know just about every song there is to know. I think I counted about 5 piano players, that keep rotating so there is never a gap in the music. They are also multi-talented, playing the guitar, drums and fiddle, as well as the piano and singing too. They played well into the night, and we eventually left at midnight to get home for the dog, as it is an hour drive back out to the burbs, although I understand the bar continues until around 3am!

It was a great night out, with great company and great friends, and of course made Lorraine hanker after moving to the city to live.