SingSing, the 14-year-old downtown Denver dueling piano bar, will shut down at the close of business New Year’s Eve.
The popular place for bachelor and bachelorette parties is expected to be taken over by Howl at the Moon, a Chicago-based rock ‘n’ roll dueling piano bar chain with 13 locations nationwide.
SingSing, located at 1735 19th St. next to the Denver ChopHouse, is owned by CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries Inc. with headquarters in Louisville and Chattanooga, Tenn.
Rock Bottom Restaurants, founder of SingSing as well as Old Chicago, Rock Bottom and the ChopHouse, merged with Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group Inc. a year ago. The new company became CraftWorks.
Frank Day, CraftWorks chairman of the board and Rock Bottom founder, said the company opted to close SingSing “because they didn’t want to be in the nightclub business any more.
“I’m sort of sorry to see it go,” Day said.
Ken Goodwin, SingSing entertainment director who has worked in the bar since 1999, said roughly 10 to 15 employees will lose their jobs unless Howl at the Moon hires them.
“Personally, I think it’s going to leave a hole because other dueling piano places have come and gone in Denver, but we have been the stable one,” Goodwin said.
