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Music Bingo
Written By: Marlene Osteen | Issue: May 2023
Music Bingo is revving up Sunday evenings at The Ugly Dog Pub in Highlands.
The Ugly Dog Pub in Highlands has long been a hub for geeky gameplay since opening two decades ago.
Now, in keeping with their slogan, “music, food, beverage and atmosphere that will keep you company,’ owners Kay and Thomas Craig have added music bingo to the weekly event calendar. To be clear Music Bingo is not the game your grandmother played in the basement of a church fellowship hall!
Think of it as Bingo meets Name That Tune meets Trivia!
The Craigs who have long hosted music and game nights added music bingo after noticing its recent popularity with patrons looking to connect socially while enjoying music.
It’s a fun and exciting take on the classic bingo game, with songs replacing the numbers on the bingo card. After receiving a card, the host – in this case local DJ Chris Moxley – plays a song and if the song is listed on your card, you tick it off. Moxley keeps playing tunes until someone gets five chips in a row on their bingo card and calls out, “Bingo!”
All the songs and boxes are in a defined music genre. The audience plays the game on their phones, often using the Shazam app to help identify the music. There are four rounds of play, and the winner of each round receives an Ugly Dog gift card to be redeemed for food and beverage.
Moxley describes it as “an equal opportunity game,” and says, “I just want everyone to have fun.” He tells me that favorites are 90’s country, 80’s rock and dance music, and some slightly new, like Bruno Mars and Pitbull. Although, sometimes it’s disco, sometimes it’s funk – its music from the 60’s to 2020 and the categories change every week.
“Imagine the last hour of a wedding reception with a good DJ spinning tunes, and folks dancing like no one’s watching. People get nostalgic,” says Moxley.
Music Bingo is hosted every Sunday at Ugly Dog Pub from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. Playing is free, and patrons are advised to get there early as seats fill up quickly.
Upcoming at Ugly Dog on May 26, is Bluegrass and Americana group Darren Nicholson Band. Performing on June 17, and July 7 is Andrew Wooten Caroline’s Roost – music “that feels like a pine-covered moonshine still on a foggy mountainside somewhere in the Carolinas.”
For more information, visit theuglydogpub.com. Chris Moxley can be reached at ambitiousentertainment.net.
Music Bingo with DJ Mox at The Ugly Dog Pub
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