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)

    “It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is not always possible to predict the response of a doting Jewish mother. Witness the occasion on which the late piano virtuoso Oscar Levant telephoned his mother with some important news. He had proposed to his beloved and been accepted. Replied Mother Levant: “Good, Oscar, I’m happy to hear it. But did you practice today?””
    —Liz Smith (20th century)

    “They made a paction tween them twa,
    They made it firm and sure,
    That the first word whaeer shoud speak,
    Shoud rise and bar the door.”
    —Unknown. Get Up and Bar the Door (l. 13–16)