Serving up Songs at McDonalds
The Jeffersonian
It’s a typical Monday night at a Pikesville McDonald’s.
For the last 53 Mondays, the fast food outlet in the 1700 block of Reisterstown Road has staged free concerts by a growing roster of singers performing show tunes, jazz standards, spirituals and the occasional bit of Italian opera. As many as 140 people squeeze into the restaurant Monday evenings to shake off their aches and woes.
“It’s the wildest thing,” says John Crow, a recycling industry executive by day who croons through Frank Sinatra tunes at McDonald’s. “We get more audience enthusiasm and compliments here than any other venue we play. I had one man come up to me and say, ‘You people brought me out of my shell. You made me feel alive again.’”
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