Bingo caller magazine5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() The game has more than 80 music genres and more than 6,000 songs. Singo music bingo uses an app to randomly play songs, which players mark on printed game cards in place of numbers. Singo sites in the Alamo City include Big Hops Shaenfield, The Dooryard and Second Pitch Beer Company.Ī game host holds a Singo music bingo card at Aubrey's in Knoxville, Tenn. He did note Singo does "good business" in Dallas and Houston and "has just been picking up" in San Antonio. Harb would not disclose how many DJs and venues use Singo, partly because not all users register their location. culture: 'Connected to culture': Pitching Lone Star is 'just fun' for iconic San Antonio beer's marketer We honestly think it helps people get closer." ![]() You’ll talk to a stranger and that has done good for us. “When there’s music playing and you’re happy, you’re less inhibited. “Everybody knows these songs, so to speak," Harb said. Sandra Sanchez and David Riojas play music bingo for the first time on a Sunday night at El Luchador bar. Riojas won the first game themed around '90s music. Singo alone has more than 80 different music genres and more than 6,000 songs, so there's something for everyone. Harb credits music bingo's growth to the simple joy of good music with good company. Now Galusha just focuses on music bingo and karaoke. Then a couple of years later as bars reopened, folks were just not that into forming trivia teams or focusing on questions. The man behind BrainParty Games entertainment service said trivia was all the rage up until the start of the pandemic. Galusha noticed his own post-lockdown spike for music bingo. "It's all been word of mouth," Harb said. Instead of calling out numbers, music bingo uses songs, which players match on their game cards. Patrons at Aubrey's in Knoxville, Tenn., enjoy a game of Singo music bingo. Now Singo does two to three new sign-ups a day. Then around the end of last year, Harb and his business partner Jonathan Apostoles noticed a major uptick in business. Singo launched in 2011 and grew to nearly 30 states before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. game: This most puro San Antonio lotería game, Lotería de Comida, features all our Mexican and Tex-Mex food favorites ![]() “There’s definitely the growth in popularity," said David Harb, CEO and co-founder of Singo, a music bingo service used by DJs and venues in more than 40 states and parts of Canada. One of several cards game host Nick Galusha designed for music bingo, which he runs every Sunday night at El Luchador bar. And it’s steadily climbing the charts of popular pub games. The first to line up five squares wins, just like in regular bingo. The host plays a portion of a tune from a shuffled playlist and the players mark the songs on their cards, usually singing along with the selection. Music bingo replaces numbers with songs on a bingo card. The longtime DJ used to specialize in bar trivia but noted it no longer has the appeal it had before the pandemic. Nick Galusha hosts music bingo Sunday nights at El Luchador bar. Even a small crowd is still a good crowd.” “It’s been growing big at most of the bars,” said Nick Galusha, the DJ behind Sunday night music bingo at El Luchador. Make that music bingo, a fresh spin on the classic call-out game that’s making noise in bars and grills across the country and around San Antonio. ![]()
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