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Nothing connotes a night on the town like a piano man. In these times of shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s still a way to achieve that ambience.
Bob Athayede is on Facebook Live providing classic cocktail piano to the masses, here every weekend evening doing what the piano man does.
"So I do it three nights a week," Athayede told KCBS Radio. "My wife requires me to wear a coat and tie and slacks. I try to get away with Casual Sunday when I can wear any shirt I want."
The Contra Costa County resident is a long-time teacher at Stanley Middle School in Lafayette and a veteran of the East Bay music scene. He’s been playing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night since the shelter-in-place orders went into effect.
"It gets kind of funny," Athayede said. "There are students that I have from 1976, in San Lorenzo, a kid named Tommy wrote me and said ‘Hey Mr. Athayede.’ People ask for tunes so I try to play what I can and learn some others."