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Freddy's Bar opens tonight (initial schedule)

Freddys Bar

“The new location, 20 blocks away in South Park Slope, was previously home to a short-lived bar called Ellis. “I was looking a lot in this neighborhood,” said co-owner Donald O’Finn, who managed the old Freddy’s. “It reminded me a lot of what Park Slope used to be when I moved here 20 years ago.”

O’Finn and a team of about 12 regulars worked to bring the feel of the old Freddy’s to the new location. The list of knickknacks can go on forever: The bar itself is the same “prohibition-era old mahogany,” he said. The same tables and stools are back again as well. A piece of graffiti-covered bathroom wall is framed on the wall. A large mounted Marlin, a reference to play by Tennessee Williams, has been refinished.

“This place was pretty conscious and intentional,” O’Finn said. “Every inch of this place was considered.”” [Wall Street Journal]

Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Park Slope, (718) 768-8131] opens tonight, and Brute Force isn’t the only one playing music on the bill. Les Sans Culottes (who headline at midnight) and The Magpie will be performing too. More events are listed below..


FREDDYS
4 Feb 2011 – 5:00 pm Freddy’s Bar Grand Re-Opening!
5 Feb 2011 – 9:00 pm The Low & The Lonesome and Karen & The Sorrows
6 Feb 2011 – 5:00 pm Superbowl Party with Out of Order
7 Feb 2011 – 9:30 pm Ed Sullivan on Acid
12 Feb 2011 – 7:00 pm “Bang A Gong” – Opening: Paintings in Flock and Glitter by Nancy Drew
16 Feb 2011 – 9:00 pm Humans Against Music
21 Feb 2011 – 9:30 pm Ed Sullivan on Acid
23 Feb 2011 – 11:00 pm Late Night Jazz Jam
24 Feb 2011 – 7:00 pm Seth Kessel
25 Feb 2011 – 10:00 pm Sunset Victim