Last Friday night on the way to our favorite piano bar, we noticed (via note on the door at 2006 Chestnut Street) that Jolly Weldon, owner of Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar, has moved his bar to the Academy House at 1420 Locust Street. We missed the official opening last Friday, but got a sneak peek and what’s to come when we caught directing manager Dan Caputo at the new location.

Caputo let us in on the deets: the new location (now called Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar and Restaurant) has a full kitchen, much more indoor seating, three flat screen TVs facing the raised party area for live feeds of the piano stage, outdoor seating with heat lamps and a bar-central flat screen for sports. The new location came about for obvious reasons (obvious, that is, to anyone who frequented the last location)—owner Jolly Weldon just needed more…