by petesduelingpianobar | Apr 20, 2026 | live entertainment, live music, nightlife
Nashville has a lot of live music. That’s the understatement of the century in a city where you can hear a band at 10 AM on a Tuesday without anyone thinking it’s unusual. But most of Nashville’s live music puts you in the audience. You sit. You...
by petesduelingpianobar | Apr 20, 2026 | live entertainment, live music
Memorial Day weekend is a big travel weekend each year, and Chicago draws its share of that crowd every time. In 2024, AAA projected nearly 43.8 million Americans would travel 50 or more miles from home over Memorial Day weekend, a figure that comes close to the...
by petesduelingpianobar | Apr 20, 2026 | live music, piano bar
Dueling pianos is an extremely unique form of live entertainment. If you’ve been planning a night out you may have heard the term but can’t quite picture what it means until they’re standing in a room where a packed crowd is singing along at full volume. ...
by petesduelingpianobar | Apr 10, 2026 | birthday, events, live entertainment, live music, nightlife, piano bar
Let’s be honest—birthday plans in Chicago usually fall into two categories: safe but a little forgettable (just another dinner reservation) or pure chaos (a bar crawl where you lose half the group by 10 PM). The sweet spot is right in the middle—somewhere with enough...
by petesduelingpianobar | Apr 10, 2026 | live entertainment, live music, nightlife, piano bar
Group activities in Chicago come with a built-in problem: the bigger the group, the harder it is to keep everyone in the same place. Someone wants live music, someone wants food, someone wants games, and before the night starts you’re building a five-stop...
by petesduelingpianobar | Apr 10, 2026 | live entertainment, live music, nightlife, piano bar
A Chicago bachelor party has a logistics problem most best men figure out too late: the group splinters. You book a bar crawl, and by the third stop half the crew is settling a tab two blocks back while the groom is stuck making small talk with strangers. The night...
