by Devon Mitchell<\/p>\n
It was Friday night; I had just found out that my two-concert weekend was turning into a no concert weekend due to show cancellations because of COVID. I was stressed. My plans for my next column on DC music were foiled. But then a flame of hope appeared before my eyes when a friend suggested we go to the Georgetown Piano Bar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was 11 o\u2019clock on a Friday, not sure if it was the regular crowd shuffling in. So, it wasn\u2019t really like Billy Joel\u2019s \u201cPiano Man\u201d but it was more fun than I anticipated. Two piano men sat at the front of the bar, dueling piano style, taking tips and requests for songs we all knew and loved. My friends and I took to the floor dancing and singing crowd favorites such as \u201cDynamite\u201d by Taio Cruz, \u201cA Whole New World\u201d from Aladdin, and to my excitement \u201cYellow Submarine\u201d by the Beatles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you choose to go to a piano bar, here are some tips. Tip 1: Wear shoes you don\u2019t mind getting dirty. It is a bar and some people have been making love to their tonic and gins for quite some time, so chances are the floors are dirty. Tip 2: Bring some dollar bills to tip the piano men, or use the Venmo code if they have one. Tip 3: Come in with an open mind, ready to sing, and dance to anything. Coming in with a mood for a melody is the best way to have some fun and maybe forget about life for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Devon Mitchell It was Friday night; I had just found out that my two-concert weekend was turning into a no concert weekend due to show cancellations because of COVID. I was stressed. My plans for my next column on DC music were foiled. But then a flame of hope appeared before my eyes when…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-wellness","category-lifestyle","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}