Howl at The Moon Piano Bar

Howl at the Moon is a franchise of dueling piano bars As of January 2012, Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bars were located in or were being constructed in:

  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Hollywood
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Destin
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Orlando, FL
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Tampa, FL
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Indianapolis, IN
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Chicago, IL
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Baltimore, MD
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Charlotte, NC
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Minneapolis, MN
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar San Antonio, TX
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Louisville, KY
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Kansas City, MO
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Houston, TX
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar New Orleans, LA
  • Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar Boston, MA

The following cities were former sites of HATM:

  • Seattle, Washington
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
  • Coconut Grove, Florida
  • Scottsdale, Arizona
  • Singapore
  • Cleveland

The theme driving Howl at the Moon is audience participation. Piano players take requests for songs and the audience sings along. Special contests for Armed Forces fight songs, college fight songs, country vs. rap and so on are popular. "The World's Most Dangerous Wait Staff" serves the crowd drinks and occasionally does a dance number.

Nightclub and Bar Magazine named Howl at the Moon Dueling Piano Bar as one of its 100 best of 2005.

The first HATM opened in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1990.

Famous quotes containing the words howl, moon, piano and/or bar:

    “Who lives among wolves has to howl with them.”
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)

    “Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “There was an old, old house renewed with paint,
    And in it a piano loudly playing.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The bar ... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable—and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a clientele that doesn’t like to talk.”
    —Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)